At least on the American right, nobody's ever cared about the "ideal childhood" in the sense of what leads to the best cultivation of self and capability because that's a vision that calls back to liberalism--what are the best and necessary conditions for the generation of maximum individuality in range and intensity. A lot of the American right has been more devoted to the idea of an ideal childhood being completely symmetrical with an ideal adulthood--that the goal has been as little variation in expressive, moral or intersubjective life as possible between adults and children. But it's possible one reason that the cultural right has become listlessly disinterested in some of the content of their 1980s era crusades (shoring up marriage, cracking down on porn, teaching religiously moral behavior in schools, sheltering children from hedonism and profane popular culture, etc.) is that it *really* annoys them that by most of the 1980s yardsticks, educated urban professional left-liberals cohere much more to the morality that they were preaching in the 1980s than evangelicals in red-state communities do--lower rates of adultery, lower rates of divorce, lower (or at least equal) use of porn, etc. So they'd rather change the subject to trans and LGBQT rights, to race--or perhaps more, change the subject to whatever most enables a will to power.