According to Lawrence Kohlberg, there are three levels of moral development and they are; the preconventional stage, the conventional stage, and the postconventional stage. In the preconventional stage, the sense of morality of a child is controlled externally. In this stage, children accepts the rule of authority and follow them strictly. They are able to judge actions by their consequences and tend to stay out of trouble.
I guess the answer is that Darren is doing his responsibility of making his new wife and child feel loved and so that they can like each other to make a better family..This is what I can come up with
