Example sentences of "having a child [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore unsurprising to note that parents fear the prospect of having a child with Down 's Syndrome , and seek to determine , at a prenatal stage , whether their child is suffering from this handicap . |
| 2 | This controversy , usefully outlined in the Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families ( Finer , 1974 , Vol. 2 , pp. 136–47 ) crystal-lises the state 's dilemma of how to deal with women who , by ‘ failing ’ to play the part expected of them ( i.e. by ending their marriages or by having a child without ever having been married ) find themselves without the support of a man . |
| 3 | It is also crucial that vulnerable young girls understand clearly that having a child at sixteen does not usually result in getting a passport to new-found freedom . |
| 4 | If any one should think that the women 's earnings are stated too low in these accounts , he will be convinced that they are not , on considering that these women commonly begin the world with an infant , and are mere nurses for ten or twelve years after marriage , being always either with child , or having a child at the breast ; consequently incapable of doing much other work beside the necessary businesses of their families , such as baking , washing , and the like . |
| 5 | and so a woman having a child on her own without a partner I think that 's that 's the biggest fear that th erm that society sees in artificial insemination of any kind . |
| 6 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 7 | ‘ But I still do n't see how this affects your attitude to having a child of your own . ’ |
| 8 | It 's different having a child of your own to bringing up your brothers . |
| 9 | How could you love a child who , because of its strangeness and deformity , precluded you from having a child of your own because it might bear the same strangeness and deformity ? |
| 10 | ‘ Thirty years ago having a child outside marriage was n't considered to be the accepted thing . |
| 11 | So most of the people who were having abortions were people who were having a child by some other man ? |