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In real life, explorers very rarely involved their families, or encouraged their children to take up the trade. I can't actually name a single one, but I'm sure it's happened at least once.
Like you said, going into the wilderness to fight bears isn't exactly a long term plan. Even the best ones, like Lewis and Clark, often died young. Lewis died a very RPG death: killed by bandits at the age of 38. Or possibly killed himself. Hard to say.
The idea of a generational adventurer's guild is cool, but only really works in a Playskool Presents: RPG setting where death doesn't lurk around every corner.
I just played our first session of Warhammer Fantasy 2ed. Paths of the Damned Series. I had to burn a fate point to avoid death in the first session. Death by a wolf, no less...