It is indeed! I don't suppose you could name the book could you?
It ties up with a lot of research on adventurous play and supervised play, and the impacts of children being risk assessed off almost all equipment and physical play opportunities, and play and activities are all adult led, adult supervised, and structured for them.
No wonder they're all anxious, adult-dependent (even as adults in the workplace) and without independent capacity to manage feelings, conflict and challenges.
It'll all hit again in a few more years when those who have been raised this way becomes parents themselves.
Also worth looking at the youth projects LAs have been providing for the past ten years or so. Places funded for vulnerable kids so often ones there is a need to reduce crime offending or being a victim of crimes, bullies and the bullied, the ones known to the local authority services through vulnerabilities and challenges or the local police. The youth workers are often people of quite strong liberal values with no authority or leadership, (much following of goals such as 'I want to be a popstar') whose accountability is whether the young person gives good feedback and is happy with the service the worker has provided.
I've heard of the issues of moving with this support into highly supported job application and interview to gain a job. One such lad managed forty minutes in his job before leaving permanently, because having met him and introduced him to what they wanted him to do, the line manager then expected him to do it. He felt unsupported and not ready, and was very annoyed at the failure of the workplace. No one had prepared him that this was not another youth project in another form where he was a valued customer, considered fragile, in need of care, and the leader and decision maker at each step. I felt he'd been rather unkindly set up by a lot of well intentioned and well paid workers.