The phrase "about the maternal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions or writings that pertain to motherhood, maternal instincts, or topics related to mothers and their roles.
Example: "The research paper explores various cultural perspectives about the maternal and how they influence child-rearing practices."
Alternatives: "regarding motherhood" or "concerning maternal issues".
Certainly, there was considerable ambivalence about the maternal figure".
As portrayed, her decision not only strains credulity but carries troubling implications about the maternal instincts and capacities of black women.
The tone was set by "The Nanny Diaries," a thinly disguised novel about the maternal indifference of an East Side socialite, written by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and published in March by St. Martin's Press.
"I used to be cooler about them"), she candidly admits to an ever-present ambivalence about the maternal role, which she saw as foisted upon her by the expectations of her time, rather than actively chosen.
Female ambivalence about the maternal or filial role is not exactly new territory for literature – nor is the idea that women's wounds are written on the body, so to speak.
This study is a literature review of published and unpublished studies, research and reports about the maternal health of nomads in Sudan.
"It is equally likely that there is simply much about the maternal-fetal connection that we do not know".
However, little is known about how the maternal response to infant crying or pup calls affects social development over the long term.
This raises questions about how the maternal system provides for the proposed increase in need for creatine during pregnancy.
Outputs from QMSim included information about the paternal and maternal alleles of each locus, which allowed the determination of linkage phase and the calculation of haplotype frequencies.
Negative mood, unhappiness about the pregnancy, maternal smoking and low maternal weight gain have also been associated with increases in low birth weight rates [ 61].
