pedophobia
English
Etymology
pedo- + -phobia
Noun
pedophobia (uncountable)
- An irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children.
- 1998, Michael Rectenwald, “Reading around the Kids”, in Constance Coiner; Diana Hume George, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve, page 112:
- Children embarrass us because they point ever too cleverly and clearly to our denial of personal, material, and maternal history. This accounts, in part, for academia's pedophobia and the hush-hush we maintain about parenting.
- 2015 February 11, Raymond Kethledge writing for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Waltherr-Willard v. Mariemont City Schools, case 14-3168:
- In 1997, Mariemont asked her to teach at the elementary school, but she said she could not do so because of her pedophobia.
-
- An irrational or obsessive fear or dislike of pedophiles or pedophilia advocates. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Related terms
- pedophobe
- pedophobic