Talk your kids into getting useful degrees. Nobody wants a greenhorn with a useless liberal arts degree. Those are only good for community organizing.
This may come as a surprise to you, sir, but those "liberal arts" degrees do have value. I think that a substantial number of people on Wall Street have such degrees. Mine was in political science (I had hoped to go to law school but when the time came I couldn't afford it) and I got a job as a surety bond underwriter trainee (the firm didn't hire anyone who didn't have a college degee).
You see, employers tend to look at it this way. Possession of a college degree (never mind the major) indicates that that person has a certain degree of intelligence and sticks to the task, in this case, four years of study. Also, one acquires a certain degree of "polish" from the experience. They'll train you to know what they want you to know.
Now, of course, this does not apply to certain disciplines, such as engineering or professions such as medicine. But for some reason folks here on FR are hung up on emphasis on engineering, as though those degrees are the only ones which have value. And it's not so.
But I made out all right. I am retired now and this past year my retirement income and that of my wife came to $95,000. Not bad for a "useless" liberal arts degree. No?
And you would know that a liberal arts degree is useless because _________________ (fill in the blank).
My daughter is a mathematician and my son is an engineer, neither of them could find work after graduation. Together they obliterated more than a decades accumulation of my and my wifes frequent flyer miles going to interviews anywhere in the US they could find one.
Ultimately my daughter found a job with a Canadian bank in Montreal, my son however could only find contract work in the middle east.
Please identify their exact academic short-comings that makes them unemployable in this fine country.