word for "overly fond of one's children"?

[Jim Parish]

Joan Houston Hall wrote (or relayed):
>         My name is Michael Paris and I am currently a sophomore studying
> Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  I have been
> researching, though to no avail, for a word that means "overly fond of
> one's children."

Well, since others have mentioned nonce-words, I seem to recall that
O. Henry used the word "philoprogenitiveness" in "The Ransom of Red
Chief".

Jim Parish

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