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People who come from happy living homes in fantasy settings have no motivation to risk their lives and that happy home for an adventure.
The things that make the happy loving home work as a background are characters that either want to duck an arranged marriage or are so far down the inheritance chain they are going to be life long mooches if they stay.
sounds like a good background for a proper paladin, no?
person grows up well adjusted and happy, including being taught to have morals, so when they learn about the horrors in the world they go "fuck that noise" and pledge themselves to make the world less shit.
And since they're just.. a normal dude.. they can be the party's "straight man" who sees a half-feral goblin mage join the party and looks into the camera like in The Office.