Reviewed On: 4/1/2008

Price/Period: $19.99/30 days



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Reviewed by Cupids Reviews Staff

Single Parents Mingle focuses on helping single adults meet, rather than on blending families, but it remains clear about what type of individual you'll be meeting right from the start. As a single parent, or someone with no qualms about finding love with someone not flying completely solo through life, you might find this site just right for your specific needs.

The profile process on SingleParentsMingle.com allows you to fill out a number of different questionnaires and personal essays that give you the opportunity to delve a little deeper into who you really are – and a chance to see a bit more about others, as well. You can also take an online test that color codes your profile based on what are the major defining aspects of your personality. Having taken the test myself, I'd say it seems more accurate than some similar ones I've tried.

"The profile process on SingleParentsMingle.com allows you to fill out a number of different questionnaires and personal essays that give you the opportunity to delve a little deeper into who you really are."

You can skip large portions of the profile questions, but I'd suggest going back to make sure that some of the fields you've skipped over haven't been filled in automatically with something that wouldn't necessarily accurately reflect what you'd put in yourself. Nevertheless, I'm a firm believer that folks who are serious about meeting for a meaningful connection with someone else will take the time to make sure that their profile is as complete and accurate as possible if they want to be successful.

The free search options are extensive. You can narrow it down to 10 miles of home, for example. They also recently added a keyword search option, which is something that we previously mentioned was missing from the site. You can also select all the criteria that are available to fill out on a profile, whether mandatory or optional, to complete. You can even type in to search by how many days it's been since other members have signed into Single Parents Mingle.

The results include last login date as well as full profile details. You can click on yes, no or maybe to instantly show whether an individual interests you or not. Besides informing your "yeses" of your interest, it'll also remove the "no" responses from future results. You can also send free signs of interest to any subscriber and read the message boards. There are chat rooms, instant messaging and onsite email, but they're limited to paid subscribers. It's unfortunate that nonpaying members can't read emails from other paying members.

The site has seen a large decline in visitors to its pages. The single parent niche has grown in the online dating world, so with more competition and the requirement that both parties upgrade to communicate, I guess Single Parents Mingle isn't as competitive as it once was.

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Overall	62/100
Popularity	0/20
Local Search	15/15
Last Login	15/15
Free Contact	0/15
Profiles	10/10
Cost	7/10
Trust Rank	5/5
Chat Board	5/5
Instant Mes.	5/5
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