To blame the sorrows and horrors of human behaviour (ie war, prejudice, abuse etc )on horrific childrearing practices is closer to the truth than blaming it all on religion. As parents, the human species has obviously come a long way, but just ponder the godawful history of human childhood worldwide for a minute if you will - from ritualized infanticide (ie India), the routine sexual use and abuse of babies and children by parents and relatives (ie China, the Middle East, India), the universal practices of child marriage and prostitution, standardized and accepted physical abuse of children (ie for "discipline"), pederasty (Greece, Europe, Asia), child labour (as practiced in England, say, in the 18-1900's), the practice of binding the "evil" newbornd in swaddling clothes and leaving it to hang in it's excrement on a peg on the wall for a year or so (so it was less trouble for adults), very little or no chance of education, the practice of "wet nursing" so that parents could have nothing to do with their own children for the first few years of life ...

ANd on and on. Throughout history and in all cultures, human babies and children have been routinely murdered, sacrificed, used and abused mentally, emotionally, physically and socially, ignored, neglected, bought and sold, beaten, mutilated, shamed ... in other words, driven to mental, social and emotional illness by their own parents and communities. It is no wonder that the majority of the human race grew up to be psychotic/neurotic, violent, self-hating and other-abusing (if they were fortunate enough (???) to grow up at all that is). Or that the political, economic, religious and social practices of I dare say every human society in history are just as psychotic, violent, and sick as the generations of abused victims who engendered them.