infantilization

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.

   “Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.”

   “In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.”

   “In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.”