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  • noun An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety of children, the opposite of pedophilia.
  • noun An irrational or obsessive fear, anxiety, discrimination or criminalisation of real and supposed pedophiles or pedophilia advocates..

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Examples

  • The fear of young people. (or pedophobia, the fear of children and babies).

    Archive 2007-06-01 lili 2007

  • The fear of young people. (or pedophobia, the fear of children and babies).

    Ephebiphobia lili 2007

  • Sounds like pedophobia which sounds simliar to the word homophobia.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • So, in honor of the Taliban and their pathological pedophobia, I recommend a donation to the

    Mole's Progressive Democrat 2009

  • I agree totally with "tazdelaney" above: "anyone who thinks i didn't have the right to claim conscious consent is a repulsive fascist hater of youth and sex in my book, creating pedophobia!"

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • We all practice this pedophobia when we discover that each minute 60 children are dropping out of school, and that those who remain to the end of secondary school receive a poor education.

    Home 2008

  • Questioning the cost of changing this reality, while accepting that there is money for all the rest, except for the children and their schools, is a form of pedophobia well disseminated throughout Brazilian society.

    Home 2008

  • But, sadly, we must recognize that few countries present the grade of pedophobia perceivable in Brazil.

    Home 2008

  • Tolerance of the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is a social form of pedophobia.

    Home 2008

  • Leaving children without toys, condemning them to work, leaving them to be killed, battered, forgotten and abandoned when they should be playing are forms of pedophobia.

    Home 2008

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