Love after Divorce

This lecture was helpful in getting to an understanding about the ever more common societal condition of divorce, and how men and in particular women move on afterward. To be specific, the questions and answers portion was most helpful. Many good points were brought up, but the one that really struck me was about how divorce effects children when the newly divorced parent moves on. It seemed to be an interesting discussion, how it used to be that parents would move on without even considering the children's thoughts or feelings on the issue, but now more and more the children are involved in the whole process. Some went so far as to say they bought prophylactics for their parents as a symbol, to show the parent they were not opposed to their establishment of a new romantic relation. The behavior was interesting to say the least, and was a good example of an overt show of love for their parents. While this is admittedly not romantic love, and instead closer to the "agape" love, I found the discussion quite relevant to the social foundation for a romantic relationship, as the latter mentioned form must be present in order to exhibit the former.