pedophobia

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Etymology

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From pedo- (child) +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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pedophobia (uncountable)

  1. (psychology, rare) 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[1], 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.
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