mollycoddle

You don't have to mollycoddle me.

Could it be we are mollycoddling young people for longer - that means protecting them and looking after them?

When you mollycoddle someone, you are treating that person with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence or attention.

Regardless, mollycoddle was formed by combining the " pamper" sense of coddle with the word Molly, a nickname for Mary.

In its earliest known uses in the mid-1800s, mollycoddle was a noun, a disparaging and now-dated synonym of our modern word wimp.

In Spain 46% of young people under the age of 25 are out of work because there is a two-tier system, with mollycoddled “permanent” workers and easy-to-fire “temporary” workers, who are disproportionately young.