when these unmothered monkeys finally became mothers their behaviour towards their offspring was unmaternal
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This displaced mourning makes the unmothered daughter assume the burden of the mother's disowned grief.
Estes leads us past the gates of the conscious mind, to discover the unmothered child within.
The Wakley Mesh Mothering Pen is a specially designed cage that helps match unmothered lambs with foster mums.
In personal relationships, the wounded and unmothered inner child collapses very easily if not attended to.
And he turns his back to the stable door, whence a faint breeze tugs at his shirt: the breath of a storm brewing, that means to keep him in cold, unmothered wakefulness.