I'd say the majority of kids round my way suffered serious problems
be it from heavy metal and asbestos pollution form the steelworks right next to our homes
or endemic violence
and while we were to naïve to realize it, talking to folk years later on showed that sexual abuse was rampant
so nobody dare tell me them were the "good old days"
very large % of folk I knew ended up alcoholics or other forms of addicts/personality problems, and a lot are now dead as a result.
I get VERY angry at ignorant folk who sneer at alcoholics and drug addicts
most folk end up like that because of the crap they have suffered, lot of drug abuse starts out as way to escape the nightmares and fears in their heads
I did so in books, or going fishing, art etc, but it ain't been easy
other folk didn't have the family etc I did and so they turned to more destructive means of coping
the "ME is caused by abuse as child" is another easy cop out for those scumbag psychs, because the ones who DID survive that crap are strong willed, folk who will fight back and tell psychs they are a bunch of clueless arrogant twats, and thus, aforementioned clueless arrogant twats have to come up with a means to undermine and weaken their victims' fighting back!
Just like the witch hunters, they always come up with crap to blame the victim
Toss them in a river, if they drown they were a good Christian and have gone to Heaven so no big loss
if they float, they are a witch!
Same kind of crap even today, except they don't get so Medieval on your ass.