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December 19, 2008
Single Parent Date Sites Change The Game
Like many people, I grew up in a single parent home. It was a pretty normal upbringing, at least that's how it felt to me. My parents didn't date that much after they broke up and when they did, it was clear that they weren't checking the single parent personals. Generally, it was colleagues or people they had met years before and sometimes had even dated in the past. This was, of course, before there were any single parent date sites.
My, how times have changed. Divorce, while common a couple of decades ago, is now way more mainstream. So much so that single parent romance is one of the most common romances that people find themselves looking for these days. One only has to look at the abundance of single parent date sites for their proof.
I don't have any kids myself and haven't even considered marriage, so while you won't see me doing the single parent shuffle any time soon, it doesn't mean that I'm not glad there are resources out there for those who are.
Balancing the challenges of good parenting, a job and an active love life isn't easy. Who better to understand this difficulty, not to mention the nerves involved in telling someone you're interested in that you have a son or daughter than a person in exactly the same boat as you.
While new options do in some way make things easier, they undoubtedly cause new challenges that didn't exist back in the day.
Remembering back, I was always suspicious of my parent's new prospective partners and my mother's choices in particular. I was always quieted down by a story of how they met proving that this new guy was someone they knew well and wasn't just some random person.
It makes me wonder how single parents these days are explaining someone they met through single parent date sites to their kids
Come to think of it, though, kids these days are way more tech savvy in general and in some cases more used to the web than their parents are right now, so it probably doesn't come as that much of a shock to them after all.
Posted by Dylan at December 19, 2008 2:20 AM
