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My considered view is that the problems with childhood are *not* driven by emergent structural historical factors like this. Childhood’s deterioration is more downstream of (adult) ideology and culture. But the pattern fits so well that it probably merits more thought.
Montessori: “The inert child who never worked with his hands, who never had the feeling of being useful and capable of effort, who never found by experience that to live means living socially, and that to think and to create means to make use of a harmony of souls…
“…this type of child…will become pessimistic and melancholy and will seek on the surface of vanity the compensation for a lost paradise. “And thus, a lessened man, he will appear at the gates of the university. And to ask for what?
“To ask for a profession that will render him capable of making his home in a society in which he is a stranger and which is indifferent to him. He will enter into a society to take part in the functioning of a civilization for which he lacks all feeling.”