"protective relationship" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a relationship in which one person is responsible for looking after and protecting another. Example: The mother and child shared a deep and protective relationship, with the mother always putting her child's safety and well-being above everything else.
Research suggests that exclusive breastfeeding may have a stress-protective role in postpartum depression; however, less is known about the underlying mechanisms by which this protection may occur or whether the protective relationship holds for women who mix breast and bottle feeding.
As we have already seen, he has a tender, protective relationship with Josie, a transsexual crack addict, and is an avid dog lover.
Mr. Bush seems to be deliberately inviting a confirmation battle by turning to Representative Porter Goss of Florida, a partisan Republican and a man criticized for his close, protective relationship with that intelligence agency -- where he once worked.
And then last month, a group of game developers introduced Bounden, an app that invites users to dance, but also lays bare our obsessively protective relationship with our phones.
Many of the profile's other supposed warning signs — familiarity with a child's medical history; a protective relationship with a chronically sick child — are actually signs of good parenting, as studies have confirmed.
Does she really have maternal feelings for her daughter, or is this child just another investment she has made for her old age?" Ms. Jones, who has no children of her own, has developed an admiring and protective relationship with Ms. Hawkins and with Adam Driver, barely a year out of Juilliard, who plays the feckless Frank Gardner.
The men, constantly fearing attack, seek out protective relationships with them.
Not unlike Europe in the late 19th century, nations large and small are seeking to enmesh themselves in webs of protective relationships that in turn feed the insecurities of others.
While parental (and even grandparental) care is given its full due in the survival sweepstakes, the tender feelings that bind couples, entire families and even larger groups into mutually protective relationships are hardly mentioned.
Such statistics aside, marketing execs at Forbes 500 companies don't generally insist on protective relationships measures when signing celebrities to hawk their products.
Look to the root of both: loving, caring, supportive and protective relationships with a child.
