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

Just ask your paternalistic (or is it 'maternalistic'?) government for what you want and they'll play Robin Hood in order to get it for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy Brushes Off Talk Of Third-Party Challenge From Right] Reference

Does the full spectrum of "maternalistic" values actually correspond to progressive values any more or less than the full spectrum of "paternalistic" values?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

Mark, why do you have this maternalistic sense about Israel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: McCain 'obsessed' with Ahmadinajad] Reference

We were and still are largely a maternalistic society, black society is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

You have a much more paternalistic maternalistic? perspective than I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor] Reference

You have a much more paternalistic (maternalistic?) perspective than I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor] Reference

She is very attractive, very charming, and almost maternalistic in her approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Z. Shore: The French Elections: Beauty and...the Beast?] Reference

I'm utterly sick of the maternalistic attitude that still clings to the video game industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Lieblich: Let Go of My Controller: The Maternalistic Attitude to Video Games] Reference

Now Natalie, as though signaled by some maternalistic satellite, sprang into defensive words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference

In the mid-1960's he married again, but this time to a maternalistic and older childhood acquaintance from small-town Lowell, Stella Sampas, who he hoped would help around the house as his mother entered old age.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Beat] Reference

But she was already gone, out the door as fast as she could gracilely manage, the bewildering emotions swirling within her a disturbing muddle of growing friendship, misplaced affection, maternalistic instinct, and duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sliding Scales]

I'm aware that it's innate in the human infant to produce M sounds followed by soft vowels in response to maternalistic stimuli, so if you find it primally necessary to label me with something of that ilk, then let it be 'maestra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

"What everyone is really looking for is a mother," says grocery consultant Bill Bishop of Barrington, Ill. "Whole Foods assumes the responsibility of taking care of you in a somewhat maternalistic way -- everything in their store has been edited.".    From Wordnik.com.  [THE GREEN MACHINE] Reference

Thanks to Curly's Corner Shop we can read that: I am just about heartily sick and tired of the “nanny state” that we are living in, the regulation, the overbearing health and safety rules, the maternalistic approach to risk, the fear of the compensation claim etc., etc., etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic or should I say “maternalistic?” and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it] Reference

However it is nothing compared to the maternalistic instinct of a mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Freedom] Reference

Its no longer a paternalistic world, its a maternalistic feminist gslen world….    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slaughter solution, constitutionality, and precedent] Reference

With its gourmet cafes, recreation facilities and other perks, Google has become famously maternalistic about providing its employees with the comforts of home and reducing their mundane daily distractions, thus freeing more brain cycles for productive work.    From Wordnik.com.  [GMSV] Reference

If this is her winter way as she springs into position, what will happen as she warms to her position, flexes those (maternalistic as she sees her role) muscles, brandishing her arms to command our attention, sword-like in armament language, point us to her priorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [MotherPie] Reference

So while it was desire for revenue that prompted the early sales of the public domain in the Mississippi Valley, the nation got in return not only means to help pay its Revolution debt, but, incidentally, settlements of highly individualistic, self-dependent, and interdependent pioneers, gathered about one highly paternalistic or maternalistic institution -- the public school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French in the Heart of America] Reference

It’s that maternalistic streak in feminism that really turns a lot of women of color off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference

Is it maternalistic to push for new women’s rights in a country where, supposedly, many women are fine the way things are?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who wants women’s rights in Mali? « Gender Across Borders] Reference

I’m not saying that in a maternalistic way, just in a way of trying to get people to take responsibility for themselves, to do the best that they can and to learn as much as they can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Management, Moms, and Old Boys] Reference

"Well, soul is darker of color, denser of volume, saltier of flavor, rougher of texture, and tends to be more maternalistic than paternalistic: soul is connected to Mother Earth just as spirit is connected to Father Sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Incognito]

This title was not maternalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriots to the NFL: We're Still Here] Reference

maternalistic is over the top over protective….    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slaughter solution, constitutionality, and precedent] Reference