Good for you doing your homework on this.
I'm about your age with a 2.5 kids and a big time job. I'd recommend just taking 30 days off and journal your thoughts along the way. Read back to your first entries frequently.
This may sound like a PIA but I can assure you that alcohol can progressively push you into a deeper and deeper hole... one so deep you may be scared and overwhelmed to try to climb out of.
I think if I had just abstained for 30 days a few years back then I would have probably avoided most of my own personal hell... AND.... found out that I love being sober and I've got so much energy and motivation that there is no time to drink and no desire to be hung over tomorrow.
Nothing worse than getting drunk or hung over while being a parent, and that is what I did for tooooo long.