Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-24898439-20140522232249

ChocolatEyes613'reply to #64 'Applegirl wrote: ''I agree that having a child isn't a good reason, period, to stay with the other person. It's perfectly fine to co-parent a child without being together with the mother of your child. If they stayed together without being in love with each other, that would be a very hard commitment to make, especially since both parties are sacrificing their martial status and possibly their own personal happiness just to give what they believe is a traditional family to their child.  Staying in a loveless marriage, causes more emotional damage to the child. Children are not as naive as they seem, and know when their parents are unhappy. '' While I agree with all of this for the real world, I would mention that this is our very modern take on parenting and relationships and how they affect children. In the world of fairy tales, that is simply not a consideration. So, whether or not the writers prefer to stick with a fairy tale moral outlook seems to be at issue. The hints are that it will stay with the fairy tale outlook. Tthis show has a decidely old fashioned moral sense in other instances. Take sex outside of marriage: has it ever ended well for ANY character? Milah hooked up with Hook (pun intended) whilst still mariied to Rumple, and she died. Emma hooked up with Neal without a ring, and she ended up in prison and without him. Graham and Regina hooked up and she killed him. Cora hooked up with the faux prince just one time and ended up pregant and abandoned all the while being basically called a slut by said faux prince (and note that she thought she was engaged). The theme seems to be that one should wait until marriage. This sort of old fashioned moral outlook on this issue suggests that in regards to Robin's choice, it won't be him simply deciding that he has moved on and so must Marian. To reiterate my point: there is a difference between the real world and the world of the show in regards to what is right and honorable.