'paternal home' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
Generally, it is used to describe the place where one's father grew up. For example, "My father brought me to his paternal home for a visit when I was younger".
Teresa never answered that letter and never returned to the paternal home until the day she went to live in Odessa with Alejandro and the four children.
The paternal home is better for the education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life.
While untimely death is a serious issue whether it occurs in the maternal or paternal home, the murder of a 'child of the mother's natal home' is considered more grievous than that of an individual within his/her paternal home.
As per our family tradition she was taken to her paternal home by her parents in the seventh month of her pregnancy.
It is traditionally understood that while one has an unequivocal right to total protection in the maternal home, in the paternal home, one is more vulnerable to various kinds of attacks, as the consequences of such attacks are less stringent.
The continuous weeping of the daughter, who had been away from the paternal home for several years, forced the emergency practitioner to immediately hospitalize the 94 years old man.
Traditionally the Nyakyusa lived in unique age villages: between the ages of 11 and 13 all the boys of a district left their paternal homes and established a new hamlet of their own, eventually marrying and bringing their wives there.
He was being driven home to Ajdabiya, my paternal family's hometown.
Riyaan is enrolled in kindergarten near his paternal grandparents' home in Brooklyn.
You don't forget it". Dr. Bapsi Sidhwa was born Bapsi Bhandara at her paternal grandparents' home in Karachi in 1938.
An excerpt revealed least Heat-Moon's travel to St. Martinville, Louisiana, the site of my paternal ancestors' home before many of them came to California.
