Editing Lost Generation (section)

====Family life and upbringing====
[[File:StateLibQld 1 169147 Andersen family photographed in their living room at Swanfels, Queensland, ca. 1900.jpg|thumb|Family in [[Queensland]] pictured at home (circa 1900)]]
When the Lost Generation was growing up, the ideal family arrangement was generally seen as the man of the house being the breadwinner and primary authority figure while his wife dedicated herself to caring for the home and children. Most, even less well-off, married couples attempted to conform to this ideal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Life: New Roles for Wives and Children |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/family-life-new-roles-wives-and-children |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200710/https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/family-life-new-roles-wives-and-children |archive-date=24 June 2021 |access-date=17 June 2021 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=8 March 2010 |title=Everywoman in 1910: No vote, poor pay, little help – Why the world had to change |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/everywoman-in-1910-no-vote-poor-206289 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301200354/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/everywoman-in-1910-no-vote-poor-206289 |archive-date=1 March 2013 |access-date=17 June 2021 |website=mirror.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> It was common for family members of three different generations to share a home.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 March 2017 |title=Three-Generation Households: Are They History? |url=https://www.silvercentury.org/2017/03/three-generation-households-are-they-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200700/https://www.silvercentury.org/2017/03/three-generation-households-are-they-history/ |archive-date=24 June 2021 |access-date=17 June 2021 |website=Silver Century Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> Wealthier households also tended to include domestic servants, though their numbers would have varied from a single maid to a large team depending on how well-off the family was.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wallis |first=Lucy |date=21 September 2012 |title=Servants: A life below stairs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19544309 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624222510/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19544309 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |access-date=17 June 2021 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Public concern for the welfare of children was intensifying by the later 19th century with laws being passed and societies formed to prevent their abuse. The state increasingly gained the legal right to intervene in private homes and family life to protect minors from harm.<ref name="Myers1">{{Cite book |last=Myers |first=John E. B. |title=Family Law Quarterly |publisher=Sage Publishing |chapter=A Short History of Child Protection in America |access-date=20 June 2021 |chapter-url=https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/35363_Chapter1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317220740/https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/35363_Chapter1.pdf |archive-date=17 March 2021 |url-status=live}} <!-- https://www.jstor.org/stable/25740668 --> </ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A history of child protection |url=https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/childhood-youth/working-young-people/history-child-protection |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202903/https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/childhood-youth/working-young-people/history-child-protection |archive-date=24 June 2021 |access-date=20 June 2021 |website=OpenLearn |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Swain |first=Shurlee |date=October 2014 |title=History of child protection legislation |url=https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/file-list/Research%20Report%20-%20History%20of%20child%20protection%20legislation%20-%20Institutional%20responses.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119015451/https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/file-list/Research%20Report%20-%20History%20of%20child%20protection%20legislation%20-%20Institutional%20responses.pdf |archive-date=19 January 2021 |access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref> However, beating children for misbehaviour was not only common but viewed as the duty of a responsible caregiver.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Geoghegan |first=Tom |date=5 March 2008 |title=Was childhood ever innocent? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7276939.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204904/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7276939.stm |archive-date=24 June 2021 |access-date=20 June 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref>