Nurturant

"nurturant" learning and playing experiences, such as reading with your child, and the facilities needed are free in most neighbourhoods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(It seems not to have occurred to lots of our readers that there are many Americans who don't want to be nurturant Earth mother types.) ❋ David Roberts (2010)

He views "strict-father morality" as the basis of conservative politics and "nurturant-parent" morality as the basis of liberal politics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Friedan wants to "take back" the denigrating images of possessive, manipulating Jewish mothers spooning out chicken soup to control their children's lives and show Jewish women as strong, energetic, and nurturant as they have been throughout history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we make a nurturant woman's workplace more friendly but not her partner's, it means the woman is always being flexible, always ceding her own wishes, because it is more permissive in her workplace. ❋ Peggy (2008)

Conservatives do think of government as a strict-father parent, and liberals think of government as a nurturant parent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The constant tension between the need for yang productive labor and the high religious value of nurturant yin yielded a labor system in which women were neither strictly confined to the home nor wholly liberated from primary responsibility for social - and sexual-reproductive labor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

How many women believe they are more nurturant, or more capable of nurturance, than men? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her central aim is to explore the ways in which U.S. society, for example, may muzzle boys 'and men's moral sensitivities, encouraging them to be less than fully nurturant human persons so they can succeed in a highly competitive public world. ❋ Tong, Rosemarie (2009)

To simplify, Dems are the "nurturant Mommy" party and Repubs are the "authoritarian Daddy" party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Lakoff did none of us Leeburals any favors with his "nurturant family" frame. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a traditional nurturant female role in support of the avant garde movement in music beginning in 1921, Minna Lederman (1896 – 1995) and Claire Raphael Reis (1888 – 1978), working with Marion Bauer, were publicists for the International Composers Guild, then in 1923 for the League of Composers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Repubs are "authoritarian father centered" thinking and Dems are "nurturant mother" centered thinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are two major modes of thought in American politics -- conservative and progressive, what I've called "strict" and "nurturant." ❋ Unknown (2008)