Significados de maternal bond em inglês

Portia's people lack a mammal's helpless infant stage, and the maternal bond that accompanies it.

The maternal bond may build slowly over time.

The position of the mother was eminently favorable to her influence in the household, and tended to strengthen the maternal bond.

But it's the latter's hungry love and inconsolable grief, which she anaesthetises with prescription drugs, that convinces us of their deep maternal bond.