Why We Rationalize Breaking Up Families
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
How often have you heard someone say, “Your divorce will show your kids you can be happy and powerful without a man”? Is that really what children want and need out of their moms? Children raised in single parent households may thrive, but they may also suffer at the same time. Adam B. Coleman was one of those kids. He joins Michele to talk about his book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain of Child Neglect.”
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | And I do think that there is something inevitable about every child wanting to know who their biological parents are. |
| 0:06.8 | Every child wants to know where they come from, every single one. |
| 0:10.7 | And the ones who don't find out never feel whole. |
| 0:15.3 | So, yes, you can go through this process and create this and create that. |
| 0:22.4 | And you can be a wealthy person and give them everything that they want and hug them every night but there is always going |
| 0:27.5 | to be a piece of that child who's not going to understand where they came from and how in the |
| 0:33.8 | entire process of why they're in this world. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah. in the entire process of why they're in this world. Adam B. Coleman is an author and a really thoughtful one. |
| 0:46.6 | This is his second book, The Children We Left Behind, |
| 0:48.9 | how Western culture rationalizes family separation |
| 0:51.7 | and ignores the pain of child neglect. |
| 0:55.7 | Now, this isn't obvious stuff necessarily, but it's so important. |
| 1:00.0 | I love talking to Adam. |
| 1:01.2 | He's one of those thoughtful people we've had on this podcast. |
| 1:04.1 | I think you'll enjoy him too. |
| 1:05.4 | You may have seen him. |
| 1:06.8 | He's a model for XXXY Athletics. |
| 1:09.9 | Before I go any further, please hit that subscribe button. |
| 1:12.5 | We really want you with us for every episode. |
| 1:15.6 | Guys like Adam, you're not necessarily going to hear from him in death other places. |
| 1:20.1 | And he is worth listening to Adam Coleman is next. |
| 1:27.4 | Adam, it is great to see you again. And I'm excited about this book. Coleman is next. |
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