If you can get your kids shooting a bow, it will be easier to get your wife to join in. Wives seem to be more resistant to taking up a new sport than kids are. But they will shoot bows in order to do things with the kids. We just have to hope that both the kids and the wives will enjoy archery enough to keep it up.
I don't have any girlfriends. If I did, my wife would take up archery just so she could shoot me and tell the cops it was due to her inexperience with bows and arrows!
Allan