A child growing up in a broken home automatically puts them at a disadvantage. Studies across the board show that children of two-parent families have a better chance of success in education, in business . . . in life. Yet too often, society doesn’t do enough to encourage these unions, even saying it doesn’t matter. In his new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect,” Adam B. Coleman explains how this is a terrible mistake of selfishness. An excerpt:

Why didn’t my father love me? Why did my father abandon me? 

Why didn’t he show me how to become a man? Why wasn’t my father around to wipe away the tears that streamed down my face when I felt lost in this world and hated what I was becoming?

What was wrong with me? 

Why was seeing me a couple of times a year satisfactory to him? Why would he always choose to leave in the middle of the night and never hug me goodbye? 

Did my life ever matter to him? 

Why did my father reject his only son? 

Because my father is dead, there is no possibility of obtaining satisfactory answers to these questions. He neglected to establish a relationship with me, so these questions remain unanswered.

Unfortunately, I’m far from the only child in America to possess these unanswered questions about one or both parents, who left them behind to fend for themselves, questioning the purpose of their existence. 

Growing prosperity and a greater emphasis on individualism in our country have led to a cultural decline in our willingness to make sacrifices. In this widespread........

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