Jennifer wrote: “Deathslayer has a point about the way some women view and behave in relationships and the attitude that some men have adopted because of this. Since this behavior clearly doesn’t represent all women, it would be a shame for men to beleive it does and treat every woman accordingly.”

While I don’t disagree with you, I think if you asked the guys here and in general, ‘this behavior’ represents a depressing supermajority. It’s just not worth the time, expense, hassle and other things mentioned by ds (very well). I’d rather go hiking with my dog, running, studying, wine tasting or other activities with my friends that I enjoy and give me pleasure. I run across more & more men who feel the same way also.

Most pick-up artists know, that, most women take time to warm up, so, they stick around.

vino: You noticed that too! For a moment I thought I must have wandered onto the wrong blog. But I like it, that this place is so relaxed, that not even deathslayer can start a flame war. Congrats to Evan!

I’d go out on a limb and say there’s a lot of variables in that single moms might find plenty of men to date them “short term” etc.. but maybe less for serious relationships and marriage. Of course it depends on their ages,looks, how many kids and ages etc…..

I found myself a single mom at age 24. I dated a number of never-married, childless men in my 20′s and 30′s, including one relationship that lasted several years. It wasn’t until I was 38 I got involved with a man who had children of his own. I never picked men on this kind of status basis, it just happened to work out that way.

Over the decades, I’ve known many, many single mom’s who never had problems finding men willing to date them. Actually, it’s common, but you certainly wouldn’t know it from reading this particular blog. Perhaps it has something to do with on-line dating, vs. the old-fashioned way of meeting someone in person and then dating them?