maternal characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers
patriarchal characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
fatherliness,
paternal quality the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
fatherlike,
fatherly like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
paternal -
belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits"
paternal -
related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt"