Meanings of nurturant in English

In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Whatever the calamities of the last three decades, however, these two value systems -strict father versus nurturant family -have been clashing for ever.

The question is a proxy for what the cognitive linguist George Lakoff calls the strict father (well-mannered) versus the nurturant family (considerate) model.