As others have said, a smart telescope like the S50 is great for getting the family involved, my understanding is that it's a few button presses on your phone and you get a live feed that improves over time (live stacking). It has various filters that help with light pollution as well, but don't expect to get much planetary or galaxy views out of it.
You could also look into something like a 6-8" Dobsonian to view some larger galaxies and planets, but that would be stretching the budget and is fully manual so you'd have to find and track the targets yourself, and frankly it would have to be taken somewhere darker to provide any 'wow' results.
Good luck to you and your family
