The word "paternalistic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or organization that controls or makes decisions for others in an overprotective way. For example, "The company's paternalistic policies made it difficult for employees to take initiative."
"The whole category has been very euphemistic, or paternalistic even, and we're saying, enough with the euphemisms, and get over it.
His paternalistic rule provides a second chance for Hungarians to reconsider what they failed to do in 1989.
The treatment of employment as a right of citizens that must be delivered by the state involved a crucial reversal of the underlying basis of public delivery in India, which has mostly been driven by a paternalistic view of the state as delivering "gifts" to the people.
The film admits Rhodes wasn't all about being paternalistic and kindly to the natives but, in order to keep him approximately sympathetic, it can't go anywhere near the full force of his white supremacist thinking.
She glows with delight because, in 1936, this line sounded paternalistic and kindly to British audiences, rather than paternalistic and appalling.
It's an oddly paternalistic policy to advocate, given Forrest writes in the report how it is "time to end the paternalism".
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev let out out a sharp, paternalistic swat in Mitt Romney's direction, after the Republican presidential canddiate called Russia "without question our number one geopolitical foe" yesterday.
For example, in the "Nudge" scheme, signs on men's and women's restrooms would count as paternalistic "choice architecture" simply because they structure choices in a way that helps us do what's best by our own lights—in this case, not mortifying ourselves barging into the wrong restroom.
It has moved away even further from being the kind of rural agricultural society with its social relations defined by hierarchical, paternalistic relations.
Asia and the Middle East, meanwhile, have a more paternalistic tradition, with the senior generation still having a lot of influence over their children's career choices.
By definition, "choice-preserving" policy is not paternalistic policy.
