This idea that you have to resign from life and settle down the moment you have children.

以为我们一有了小孩，就不得不放弃自己的生活，安居乐业，举步不前。

youdao

Settle down, children, stop running about.

孩子们，安静下来，别到处乱跑了。

youdao

We did not talk about his wife or his children or my personal life or when I would want to settle down so that he could avoid standing in my way.

我们没说起过他的妻子跟孩子，也没谈过我的个人生活或是我什么时候想安定下来以便于避免他挡在我前进的道路上。

youdao

He wants to reduce the churn in Newham and turn it into a place where people buy houses, settle down and raise children.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

As National Gen-Y columnist Sharalyn Hartwell outlines on Examiner.com, millennial men are consistently more likely to want to get married, have children, settle down, and stay in with their significant others than millennial women.

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So her children never settle down either.

BBC