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Also according to legend, there was a mild-mannered, nurturant, exception: John Chapman, the itinerant Swedenborgian Christian preacher and horticulturalist better known as Johnny Appleseed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

When the sons of highly reactive males were placed with unusually nurturant mothers this personality trait was completely prevented.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2012

There is very little encouragement of nurturant fathering in this society.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's not that we were wrong back in the salad days of feminism about the existence of nurturant "feminine values."

From Time Magazine Archive