The Australian state has removed 13,000 aboriginal children from their families, accusing various kinds of mistreatment or neglect, but without trying to help the parents much if at all.

The population of Australia is around 23 million, so the aboriginal population is around 600,000. If 1/4 of them are children, that means almost 10% of these children have been taken away from their families. That's not an entire "generation", but it is a large fraction.