Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine, diagnosed America as having an "epidemic of paedophobia", saying that, "though most of us make exceptions for our own offspring, we do not seem particularly warm-hearted towards other people's children.
"[8] One report suggests that the source of current trends in the fear of children have a specific source: James Q. Wilson, a professor at UCLA's School of Management, who in 1975 helped inaugurate the current climate of pedophobia when he said "a critical mass of younger persons... creates an explosive increase in the amount of crime.
[11] The United Nations has created the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is implicitly designed to foster intergenerational equity between children and adults.
[12] The influence of the fear of youths in American popular culture is examined by critical media analysts who have identified the effects of pedophobia in both Disney[13] and horror films.
[14] Other authors and scholars, including Henry Giroux,[15] Mike Males, and Barbara Kingsolver[16] have suggested that the popular modern fear of youths stems from corporatisation of mass media and its complicity with a range of political and economic interests.