There's a LOT of truth to that statement! I didn't get married 'til I was in my 30s, and I have 3 kids: 19, 17, and 4 (not a typo!).
These last four years have been the most wonderfully challenging years of my life, thanks to the simultaneous joys of being a Lariette (drill team) dad, a band dad, and a toddler dad. My identity in my community, like many other parents, is not that I'm "Night Hides Not": I'm Shauna's Dad, Richie's Dad, and Nathan's Dad, and I wear all 3 mantles proudly.
However, having one child in preschool & another in college is wreaking havoc on my checkbook.
I hope Accygirl picks the right field for her MBA. In my case, there's a glut of 50+ year old CPAs in the market, and the immutable laws of supply and demand are in force.
For you younger folks out there, age discrimination is rampant, even at 4.5% unemployment.
Not that my advice is worth much, but the advice I've tried to pass on to my kids is to discover what you're passionate about, and build your life around that. Life is too short to put yourself in crappy jobs, no matter how much (or how little) they pay.
Great post. Keep on being a great Dad.