infantocracy

plural infantocracies

1. countableuncountableRule by children.

   Well, it took a long time to dispose of our new fellow-travellers, for your infantocracy is the most absolute government under the sun.

   1862, Dinah Maria Mulock, Domestic Stories by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman, page 253

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   The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.

   1968, Frederick C. Crews, The Patch Commission, page 25

   In Kundera's unsentimental vision, moreover, children serve as emblems of the mindless "infantocracy" overtaking contemporary culture in both East and West.

   1992, The Journal of Narrative Technique, volumes 22-23, page 87

   Synonyms: kindergarchy, paedocracy