I had three daughters. My current wife has two sons and a daughter.
I cried for three days solid when I was removed from my home without cause. However, prayer was huge and I refocused my life because of it. It was hard on my daughters, but in the end, they are doing great. They all paid their way through school. One is now an accountant, another acquired a civil engineering degree and uses it in her position for an insurance company to analyze risk in commercial buildings. The third was, as it turned out, skipping every day at school (she was the oldest) but ended up getting a GED and is now a product manager for a large company.
Regarding my wife's three kids, daughter paid her way through college and became an IT specialist in the medical profession, the youngest boy became an iron worker and now manages other workers at large building sites in Seattle. He's involved with rebar and those big cranes you see over the high rises.
The older son became a truck driver for a firm that delivers diesel to job sites and 18 wheelers while parked at night. He ended up quitting and starting his own company (doing the same thing). He now has 9 trucks of his own with drivers to match and just purchased a multi million dollar building and had it completely refurbished (new roof, etc.) It includes the main office, a full shower and locker area for his drivers as well as 20,000 square feet of warehouse for truck storage, a parts area, full repair shop and indoor truck wash.
BTW, the trucks cost approximately $270,000 each and he paid cash for the last four. He also worked his butt off for about five years getting it up and running.
Seriously. One day at a time...Today.