And whose fault is it that the young woman appears to have no mothering instincts?

Indeed, she was old enough for the post - though whatever mothering instinct she showed always seemed strained and false.

There'd been no precedent in her own early life and June's mothering instincts had long ago withered and died.

They also brought her mothering instincts to the fore.

As they were leading his horse out into the sunlight, he said, "She's got a hell of a mothering instinct, Frank."

Manami has a very strong mothering instinct with a desire to take care of people, hence her chosen profession.

A strong mothering instinct isn't something that can be taught or learned, Sarah.

"The most important thing that got me through this, aside from the mothering instinct, was my friends."

It was like a mothering instinct, they suggested, a control thing.

In her dying, she responded to the girl with that same mothering instinct.