daughtering

English

Etymology

daughter +‎ -ing

Noun

daughtering (uncountable)

1. The action of behaving dutifully as a daughter; the action of a female child in caring for or otherwise relating to her parents.
   • 2002, Paula Lawrence Wehmiller, A Gathering of Gifts, page 22:

     She has spent her days and nights putting her mothering and daughtering hands to healing her own children and her own parents at home.

   • 2003, Orson Scott Card, Wyrms, page 261:

     But Unwyrm needed one task performed. The daughtering of Peace.

   • 2012, Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, Helen M. Sterk, Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, page xi:

     As I read the chapters of this book, I thought not only about the connection between me and my mother, but also about the effect that my mothering has on my daughter and that her daughtering has on me.