- A single mother with kids of 1 or 2 men; she selected wrong. She was likely an unstable girl and had a past in her younger years. The child's father bailed out.
- A single mother via IUI (artificial insemination). She likely got strung along in a long-term relationship and by the time she found out he would never marry her, she had wasted years. Not wanting to kill her remaining years, she went to the fertility clinic to it done.
I don't think men care how she got her kids, many rape victims who give birth and raise a child they didn't have a say in, still get treated just as bad as someone who chose badly.
Although I'd think it would be easier for the one with no father involved or who might show up later and suddenly want to exercise parental rights that are guaranteed by law.
Fathers can vanish for years and then show up and if refused, go to court and she gets ordered to allow it or be in contempt, it starts out with supervised visitation for a few months then goes into unsupervised.
That seems like a big risk right there, but what do I know... I'll never be a mom like that, so can't relate.
Guys on GAG put down single mothers but they have options. Not all men are young, tall, dark, and handsome with high incomes. If a guy is short, overweight, with a minimum wage job, he has zero change to date a young pretty single girl. If the best he can do is date the single girl on the left and maybe date the single mom on the right, who do you believe he would choose?
Option A, cause there's way more emotional baggage and red flags, there. Option B at least shows some maturity and initiative. But I could never date a single mother either way; I don't want kids and I'm not changing anyone's diapers. I'm a teacher, so I work with kids every day, but I am NOT father material.
Not sure where you are from but getting a date for a woman is easy. Getting a higher value date is probably going to be the issue in general. For me It would matter if there was drama attached to the situation I would proceed with caution but open to the situation.
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The one who has it worse is definitely the one sleeping around.
Single mothers have it hard no matter what happened. Men do need to realize that responsibility before dating anyone who has kids.
The most off-putting thing about single mothers isn't necessarily that they are mothers or that they made the wrong choice in past relationships. It's that many of these single mothers don't take time to heal from these bad choices and will carry over the emotional damage from these relationships which is unfair to anyone regardless of whether or not you have children.
I dont really care what guys think. i like sex with no condoms and you think im a slut because i get preg? if you got me drunk or you messed around with me while i passed out dont mean you can treat me different. if you rape me that means you have to pay me the rest of your life. its your own fault. not mine. ill still be out there partying because its what i like. dont be hating
The single mom with the test tube child definitely has an advantage because guys like hearing stories about these kinds of things like how she got pregnant from a doctors office. Plus there’s no baby daddy she has to deal with, unless she still owes on the test tube baby, then you might have to deal with some collection calls but it’s not like they’re gonna repossess a baby.
I mean it's worse to have some baby Daddys around but not substantially different. No single mom under any circumstance is suitable to dating most men. She should find a man with lots of kids that's the best shot but tbh even he is better off with a woman with no kids.
Dating a single mother is the same as paying for the neighbors home, Absolutely no return in his investment in her kids. Her and the kid makes out like a bandit while he has nothing to show for it. If you believe I am wrong, you go buy your neighbors a car.
I have no sympathy for either because both allowed their poor choices to bring another fatherless child into the world. But the one who is a particularly bad person is the one who selfishly chose to have a child without a father, knowing the easily available facts about how a child raised without a father is at much greater risk of all kinds of problems.
Neither. Both are incredibly stupid. The absolute worst children come from single mother homes. 90% of the prison population is from single mother homes. The vast majority of rapists, murderers, drug users, vandals, arsonists,, criminals in general are from single mother homes. Sure its hard on the mom. its WAY worse for the child. Way worse.
I feel all single mothers will have hard times in the dating world regardless of what type because they are all women and these people are always so careful especially with second chances
Both, I would never have any serious relationship with a single mom.
The entitlement of women never ceases to amaze.
The thing that would stand out to me more than having children by two different men would be the adultery aspect not the children aspect of it.
Either way she is a single mother. It makes no difference. It takes a mature man to love a woman like that.
The kind with no job, no education, no judgment, no impulse control, and an intact reproduction system.
The single mom with different men especially if they are from different ethnic backgrounds. If we take over the role as step dad, we want to relate to the children.
I think they're both red flags. Both fir very good reasons.
Single mothers are unattractive to most men anyway
Dudes dont really like single mothers these days
Obviously the first one
