The ethnics of care advocates that children should be provided with protective love, spiritual nurture, and socialized personality through maternal practice in the course of constructing an intimate relation with them. From the perspective of maternal thinking in the ethnics of care, this paper takes Chi Li's and other author's caring narrative works on their own experiences as examples. In contrast with the moral authority of fatherhood in the works of Bo Yang, Yu Hua, etc, this paper discusses the significance of maternal thinking in contemporary family education in China. In other words, maternal thinking can booster the intimacy and interdependence among family members; meanwhile, with the influence of maternal thinking, the role of fatherhood should be shifted from moral authority to moral care accordingly.