When The Atlantic published Ann-Marie Slaughter’s op-ed Why Women Still Can’t Have It All in early July, I eagerly sought out the story online so I could see if she had any answers for questions my friends and fellow working moms have looked for for years now. Is it possible to soar to the highest heights in our careers while managing our households and raising our children? And if I do, does my family pay the price for my professional success?

What if I want to be an awesome mom and an awesome businesswoman? As a Christian woman, should I weigh these things any differently from my secular colleagues?

It’s a deep and emotional struggle that I’ve carried since my son was a year old.

Consider these American father facts:

● 50 to 60 percent of first marriages end within the first 15 years.

● When divorce occurs, mothers usually get custody of the children.

● 24 million children in the United States live without their biological father.

My wife and I have enjoyed the privilege of raising and loving our three children. Our oldest, Caleb, has graduated from college and is working full-time. Living at home this last year, he was able to pay off all of his student loans. Hallelujah! Our other two children will graduate from college in May 2013.

I can guarantee you one lesson all three of my children have learned: Mom and Dad are not perfect! In his helpful book, Like Dew Your Youth, Eugene Peterson writes, “The task of the parent is not to confront directly the problems of the young and find the best solutions to them; it is to confront life, and Christ in life, and deal with that. A parent’s main joy is not to be a parent, but to be a person.” His point is, “The parent’s main task is to be vulnerable in a living demonstration that adulthood is full, alive, and Christian.”

“And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.” Malachi 2:15 (KJV)

A child that lives a committed Christian life is a great blessing, and his or her parents should be commended (Psalm 128:1-4). Other parents, however, unknowingly raise children who profess lip service to Christianity but actually belong to the devil in actions and doctrines, like the children of Eli. Let’s take a look at godless seed first.