mollycoddle

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

You have been bred up as a molly-coddle, Pen, and spoilt by the women.

No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.

To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

Heerendorp by this means obtained an evil notoriety, and it was ordered to be burnt, and the women of Jacob's family to be transferred to a concentration camp where they would be mollycoddled at the expense of the English taxpayer.

Rich countries also need more competition in traditionally mollycoddled sectors such as education.