Parentism

Quick meaning: Parentism is a noun meaning (uncountable) Discrimination against parents.

Meaning

(uncountable) Discrimination against parents.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Pathological or unhealthy parenting.
2. (uncountable) Parental determinism; the belief that parenting is responsible for the character and behavior of the child.
3. (uncountable) The promotion of having children as a social ideal.
4. (uncountable) The granting of absolute authority to parents.
5. (uncountable) Paternal or maternal feeling and behavior.
6. The assumption of a parental role in the context of a relationship other than the parent-child relationship.
7. (countable) A cliché used by parents with their children.

Example Sentences

Why indulge the reader's ageism, sexism, or (the neologicstic) "parentism"?

Many of our families suffer from parentism. Either our children are too attached to us as they leave (maybe!) the home, or we are guilty of overprotection.

I've come to label an attitude that lies in most of us and dominates in some as 'parentism' - that is presuming deficiences in people because they are parents.

Why do so few Americans recognize the effects of “parentism,” if you will? Why is there still no popular reform movement directed against the problem of wildly unequal starts?

Word Forms

• parentisms

Related Words

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