Well given the latest update I would say you are definitely on the winning end, not that we didn't already know that! Better off, party of one....
However sounds like your kids are being traumatized by this, for lack of a better word being conjured by my brain at 1 a.m. ...
Action plan for son who doesn't know why he should live?? I know kids can be melodramatic but as a teacher I follow a lot of the news on kids who wind up taking their lives deliberately or accidentally (an 11 yr old in a town 90 miles from here accidentally died playing the 'choking game' on himself last week) because they feel there is no benefit to being alive...