CHILD-BEARING: A Social Phenomenon

Child-bearing is a universal phenomenon. All women have an instinct, a biological urge to become mother and to nurture children. Motherhood, therefore provides women with both personal satisfaction and social approval, and also satisfies their innate biological urge.
Women occupying different social positions and living in diverse domestic circumstances do not experience child bearing in the same way. Besides, the changes brought about in the social life by science and technology are matters of peculiar concern for women.
It is in this background that the present study was conducted. It this, an attempt has been made to explain the different aspects of child-bearing in the social context.