I think you misunderstood where I was going with that. A huge environmental transition for a kid of ages 7-12 is different, to me, than a huge environmental change from ages 18-24. The latter is somewhat inevitable, existential crisis is inevitable. Catcher in the Rye and all that, you can't protect kids forever...but you can for a while at least.

It's sort of like not wanting your kids to watch Breaking Bad at 8 years old. There's some subjects they just shouldn't have to internalize until they have the tools to deal with such things.