paternalistic

The protection of women — purportedly a benevolent, paternalistic gesture — has instead been historically grounded in and applied for the purposes of controlling women.

“I know for some women that’s very scary and all, but it’s almost a paternalistic kind of view.”

The military thought “that Brazil could deal with native peoples in a paternalistic way and could prepare them for civilization,” Krenak told The Associated Press in an interview following Tuesday’s apology.

Out-of-wedlock births are rare in Japan because of family values based on a paternalistic tradition.

But change has come slowly in a country of conformity with a conservative government that sticks to traditional paternalistic values and is reluctant to accept gender, sexual and family diversity,