Sentence examples for maternal duties from inspiring English sources

Nigel's two older brothers, Nate and Johnell, split many of the maternal duties in raising him, while their father worked two jobs.

Howe's husband, Samuel, a prominent Boston educator and intellectual, yearned for a submissive wife, fulfilled by her marital and maternal duties.

With a poet's economy, Dunmore sketches in not only the death of Anna's mother and her maternal duties to her small brother Kolya, but also the political culture of Stalin's Soviet Union.

She was doing it all without dropping any of her maternal duties — not school pickup, not homework, not dinner, not party planning, not even those photo books for the grandparents.

When women applied to be judges in the State Council, Egypt's highest administrative court, the council's general assembly voted against it, arguing that women's emotional disposition and maternal duties rendered them unfit.

He kept count of the litters laid, and whether they were raised in solitary nests (those that consisted of only one female and her family) or communal nests (in which females shared maternal duties, irrespective of who sired their offspring).

I'd do my maternal duty and stay quiet.

But in today's context — and particularly in a country like France, where generous work-family policies, however imperfect, are well developed and prized — anti-motherhood talk (Badinter writes of the "despotism of an insatiable child" and the "tyranny of maternal duty") seems not just outdated, but a little weird.

For Lipton, the mental burden brought about by intense suffering and the fear of eradication tipped the woman into insanity, making her "as false to her own people as she was to God and her maternal duty" (p. 219).

And this is not just a maternal duty; dads need to get involved too, even if it might be especially difficult for them having grown up in a hyper-gendered society themselves where men don't talk about these touchy-feely things.

It was only once these concerns about paternal duties coincided with wives' expressed and realisable aspirations that stretched beyond the maternal that elite fertility was systematically controlled not just through delayed 'starting', but also through 'stopping' within marriage.