in regard to peace advocacy, proceeding from the view that one's child cannot be preserved or nurtured if all children are not so, and that "until all children are safe . . . nuclear weapons and environmental poisons threaten us all" (Rumsey 130). Thus to protect the individual nurturing impulse, maternal virtue projects itself into communitarian activity.
The view of May and Strikwerda is that nurturance is not exclusively a maternal prerogative or impulse but rather is (at least potentially) a feature of fatherhood. The core of the argument is an appeal for conscious acceptance and development of nurturant behavior and praxis among fathers, more or less an ethos of nurturance: "To be a nurturer is 1) to display caring behavior for an extended period of time, 2) to have an intellectual c
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