Did Lex Luthor have a miserable childhood?

Answer 1

It may be different in other story lines, but In his own origin story comic it explained that he didn't have any friends and his father didn't have best relationship with him. His mother also died in his childhood. In Smallville he had the same childhood story and he had a baby brother Julian who was murdered by his mother because she did not want to have another child, but lex made it look like he accidentally killed Julian so he could protect his mother from his father who is named Lionel Luthor btw. This caused the him and his father to have the bad relationship with each other. If you want to find out more about it, I would look up Lionel Luthor on Wikipedia and I think that has some more info on Lex Luthor's childhood. I hope I helped :)