maternal

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The most direct beneficiaries are maternal healthcare and fertility services.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Chung’s Umma doesn’t take up a lot of room in the play, but her maternal presence registers sharply nonetheless.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

These kinship networks were largely organized through maternal lines, with one mitochondrial lineage dominating, pointing to a key role for women in maintaining family continuity and coordinating movement.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

One of Sims’s maternal uncles was a labor economist, and prodded him to enter the field.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Fard Muhammad, my maternal grandfather, returned to the nowhere from which he’d come.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides