Of course Rick and Lily pass down their flawed sexual ethics to their children. Rick sees nothing wrong with teenage sex, and tells Eli so. As well it should. Rick compares the effects of divorce on children to that of taking a baseball bat and hitting them over the head. Lily feels unlovable and used.
Grace struggles with fear when left alone in the house.
Eli's grades drop. In a medium infamous for glamorizing worldliness without regard for consequences, these honest portrayals provide laudable warnings about the fallout common in broken homes. However, Once and Again still glamorizes sexual sin. Not a message teens need to hear. Nearly half as many people get divorced as get married each year.