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

Fri Jan 20 20:40:28 UTC 2006

At 1/20/2006 12:33 PM, you wrote:
> >And didn't the original question have the implication of sexual interest?
>
>Absolutely not, as I read it.
>-- Doug Wilson

Sorry, on first reading I missed the double negative in
>I have found the word "uxorious" which means "excessively
>devoted to one's wife," though I have found nothing pertaining to children
>(at least nothing not pertaining to the sexual.)

Joel

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