My wife and I are proud parents, obviously, but the big deal is that our daughter has been able to pursue her interests and is not going into debt to do that. We haven't had to borrow to support her studies either, unlike some of the parents of other PhD students in her cohort. 

Her older brother has a 5 year x K$20 SSHRC fellowship for his History PhD studies at an Austrian University. SSHRC said that he could have K$35 x 3 years if he returned to Canada, but Europe has more artefacts and documents of interest to him. His bachelors degree was a double major in History and Engineering Comp Sci. The employer for his last Comp Sci coop work term got NSERC funding to cover part of his pay. All he had to do was sign the application forms the secretary filled out for him. He says that at least he can fall back on IT if the History Prof thing doesn't work out for him.