No one cares for you a smidge when you're in an orphanage

So I've seen two great movies about orphans. One is Oliver, the other is Annie. While I think they are great movies, I think they actually are the most clear illustration of a particularly crazy idea: life should be better for children. In both movies, in the beginning we note our protagonist in a bleak situation, the orphanage. The underlying assumption is to be "Children don't deserve such misery." If this was a movie about adults it would be the protagonist's responsibility to escape using their wits. Because we are taught consistantly that if an adult is in such a horrible bleak situation, namely the bleak world of work and what it looks like when
NO

ONE

LOVES

YOU.

And supposedly this lack of love is only tragic and unfair for children. This in my mind creates an overbalanced situation where we raise children to believe that society will just take care of them, that they will be loved regardless. Then suddenly one day they will reach the adult world and realize that's not true. Of course some will never reach true adulthood. Some will find partners and have enough wealth to sustain the illusions in childhood. But not all. You know if children were intruduced to the unfairness of the universe earlier it's possible they would overcome it in adulthood. This is what is really wrong with the school system. It's a very ineffective way of preparing young people for life. It prepares you for educational institutions, which is GREAT for higher education and possibly life in the philosophical elite. But for working class america it's a horribly inefficient system compared to apprenticeship. If a child, say 9-10 were put to work as an apprentice they could have a bright future. But no, because we have this crazy idea of childhood we force the child to waste 17-18 years of their life. Pleasuring themselves and being pleasured. Is it any wonder there are so many addicts in this country?