Not just early childhood--I felt the misery of compulsory school got worse each year.
Then we have university to continue destroying the psyche of young people. The brain keeps developing until the mid-20s, and probably by no coincidence, that is how long it would take someone to get a PhD if they went to university straight after high school.
Westerners have perfectly honed things so young people's entire brain development cycles are riddled with nothing but stress and violence.