To be limited in your actions and/or freedoms due to a child. A person experiencing child-hold may have their own child or be dating another individual who has a child that creates a burden which limits his or her freedoms.
Adam!! Are you coming out tonight or are you in the child-hold with the girlfriend again? >>Sorry man, the lady has the kid and we can't go anywhere.
by Frizzle06 April 11, 2010
by Griphftor August 16, 2006