When parents start up new relationships with new people, it offers a large amount of unsupervised time for the children of divorce. It creates an environment where the children are no longer prioritized, but the new romance is. No one much cares for the children of divorce who are left behind; the new guy or gal coming in wants the undivided attention of his or her new lover, and children are often "in the way" and treated as such—if not directly, then indirectly.
