Definition

1. Noun (Archaic):
   • The act of giving birth and raising children: Refers to the combined processes of childbirth and the subsequent upbringing of infants and young children.
   • Child-rearing / Nurturing: Specifically denotes the care, education, and cultivation involved in bringing up children from infancy.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Sách này bàn về vấn đề sản dục. (This book discusses the matter of childbearing and child-rearing.)
  • Kiến thức về sản dục rất quan trọng. (Knowledge about nurturing children is very important.)

Advanced Usage

• "Sản dục chỉ nam": A guidebook or manual on child-rearing.
  • Bà ấy tìm mua một cuốn sản dục chỉ nam. (She looked to buy a child-rearing guidebook.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sinh sản (v/n): to reproduce; reproduction. Focuses more on the act of procreation.
• Nuôi dạy (v): to raise and educate (children). A modern, more common term for child-rearing.
• Puériculture (n): The French-derived technical/archaic term for the systematic care and upbringing of young children.

Synonyms

• Child-rearing: The process of raising children.
• Nurturing: The act of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone.
• Upbringing: The treatment and instruction received by a child from its parents throughout its childhood.

Notes on Usage

• This term is considered archaic in modern Vietnamese. It is rarely used in everyday conversation and is primarily found in older texts or specific historical contexts related to family and pedagogy.
• The concept encompasses the full cycle from birth through the early stages of raising a child.

1. Give birth to and bring up