Adjective : maternal instincts. ,his maternal aunt. ,maternal genes.    From Dictionary.com. 

I want to address the part regarding my supposed "equally harsh words for 'maternalism'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh: 'Pro-Life Feminism' is an Oxymoron] Reference

Did the same causes that led to the rise of a bureaucratic state also foster an unhealthy 'maternalism' on the part of those in authority, in which justice is ignored in favor of a false peace?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Beginning] Reference

But nevertheless, by turning the definition of "maternalism" on its head and following it with a quote of mine that had nothing to do with the actual definition of "maternalism," that's exactly what happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh: 'Pro-Life Feminism' is an Oxymoron] Reference

The response above was to a question that had nothing to do with "maternalism," which is traditionally defined as a mother's innate instinct to care and protect her child, something that is real and to be respected, which I assure you I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh: 'Pro-Life Feminism' is an Oxymoron] Reference

Is "maternalism" any more or less positive for economic justice, civil rights, educational quality, than "paternalism"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

Marsh has equally harsh words for "maternalism," which she calls "propaganda placed on someone because you want to control them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh: 'Pro-Life Feminism' is an Oxymoron] Reference

Parren's maternalism extended beyond women's impulse to preserve intact home and family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference

Incessantly used to sell products, traditional femininity and maternalism became commodified.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Her working relationship with Mrs Mackay had been affable despite, or perhaps because of, the older woman's maternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Rapunzel]

Caring for Clare had been a mixture of resentment, exasperation, tenderness, even a touch of maternalism on account of the age gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Rapunzel]

The main difference between paternalism and maternalism is that the first attempts to treat adult people as adolescents, while the second - as infants.    From Wordnik.com.  [HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it] Reference

In many ways, the industry chose to encourage women to sew by emphasizing supposedly natural feminine traits such as love of fashion, maternalism, and household thrift.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Her interests and accomplishments were shaped by her heritage as a child of Eastern European Polish immigrant parents and the Progressive movement with its focus on maternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeanette Goodman Brill.] Reference

But her book isn't addressed to mothers; it is addressed to those childless women living in the nightmare of French maternalism, a plea for them to avoid her mistakes, to keep using contraceptives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Politicians and pressmen were like lovers, to be wooed and used to portray temporary identities of chastity, liberality, and maternalism to gain particular ends: Whig loyalty, the king's support, the mob's love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

It parallels both Koonz's (1987) and De Grazia's (1992) observations of the extreme maternalism of German and Italian fascism respectively, as a means of co-opting women, who were unlikely supporters, into the regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference

On both philosophical and emotional grounds, I hate paternalism in government; and I don't like maternalism in government any better, especially given that, in a number of respects, America is gradually evolving into a gynocracy anyhow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

In a sense, this overblown maternalism offered more to women than its understated liberal counterpart, whereby men inhabited and defined public life and women were the unsung heroes of a femininised private sphere, conceived of as apolitical. 32.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference

Most women have this instinct: it's called maternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Spectator] Reference

The two who suffered most from this stern maternalism were the Boy and the Girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tyrant Abdicates] Reference

Esmé patted the other's head with an absurd and delightful affectation of maternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clarion] Reference

As a woman, those she treats expect her to possess a comforting maternalism lacking in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Street riots greet Kashmir peace talks] Reference

His maternalism and paternalism do not countenance that a sane and ethical woman seeking abortion could knowingly approve the destruction of her living fetus in the way entailed by "partial birth" abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

To be part of the educated middle class is to discipline primal urges, to order life in a way that tends to preclude Sarah Palin-style maternalism, and, in many cases-often unintentionally-to rule out kids altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Journal] Reference

"Just as the Nation has gone in for paternalism, we here in Blunderland have gone in for maternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream] Reference

They don’t have juries to check their power, and their literal paternalism or maternalism leads them to be more arbitrary than judges who see their job merely as applying the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)] Reference

They don’t have juries to check their power, and their (literal) paternalism or maternalism leads them to be more arbitrary than judges who see their job merely as applying the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)] Reference

It was presided over at first by Levi Eshkol, a weak prime minister who died soon after the war and was succeeded by the hard-line Golda Meir, famous for her smug maternalism, and for saying, "Who are the Palestinians?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong?] Reference

I know, I know, that’s nitpicking, and Barry really meant to say, “having a uterus doesn’t make you an emotionally unstable psycho, nor a angel of domestic maternalism, nor anything but a person with a uterus” which is true of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [What distinguishes each form of feminism from the other?] Reference

Not 'paternalism,' but 'maternalism' at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-19] Reference

For guys of any age, tyrannical maternalism is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference

Just occurred to me that "maternalism" is more accurate than "paternalism".    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Wrong With the SEC?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference