Should family be placed on the altar of career

I am sure we may have heard such comments like:

“He has done well for himself. He is now the managing director of the company but one of his sons is a drug addict while the other is presently in jail for murder.”

“She is a renowned human right activist but her home is in chaos”

Career is like a rubber plate when dropped from a height is not affected by the impact of the fall. It is recovered still as a plate and can still be used. However, family is like a clay plate that falls from the same height but shatters to pieces. [More...]