And don't ask me how I ended up teaching credits on cooking and simple mechanics to the girl scouts. Oh wait- I've known 5 of those scouts since they were born because they're my closest freinds children. My spaghetti and meatball recipe is the best. Taught them my french toast recipe last weekend.

I can agree with that.. it seems that man without children or at least no experience around children there seems to be complications.

I also have a 3 month rule in regards to my son... I have to be seriously dating someone for at least 3 months before I will even discuss my partner meeting my son.

Children are a blessing. I would date a guy with kids. however I dont want a lot of kids so I prefer to date a man with 1 or 2. but not much more than that. seeing how as I only have 1 daughter and want another. and I jsut cant see going and doing anything with 5+ kids....


so yes I will and love to date guys with kids but he cant have a football team already!!

I would date a man with children. I would welcome the kids.

I agree with both of you above...

I am very protective of my daughter...I dont want her to get hurt...so my partner has to be very special for me to introduce them....I also dont want her to see me dating tons of women....I want to teach her values and respect me and others.

I also dont want a women who has a football team by mutliple fathers...

I wouldn't date a man with young children. Mine are 24 and 27 so I am all done with the child-rearing fun and games...lol

My angelsJessica,Crystal & Loranwill always be #1
Dating will be #2-words like nuisance,baggage or complications=Good-Bye!

Dating someone with kids poses a host of issues. Kids are cute and we all love them, so don't get me wrong. Because almost all dating parents with kids are divorced, that in itself is the cause of most issues and the issues don't really surface until one marries another with children.

The issues involved? Ex's often talk down a new partner to the children. A person with kids already has an entrenched parenting style which can be very different to a prospective step-parent. That style may eventually appear infringed upon and resented by a new love's opinions and intervention. In the same light, a new love may eventually feel powerless and resentlful of an already established parenting style.

Then there's the resentment from children who see a new love as a threat. Most kids of divorces dream about one day having their divorced parents back together.

How about kids reacting to having more than just two parents telling them what to do? With step-parents added to the mix, kids experience even more confusion and anger. They might have three or even four "parents" to live under.

If a person with kids already, marries again then has more children with the new spouse, imagine how displaced the "original" kids feel and the issues arising from that?

I could go on and on and I'm sure there are many books addressing the issue of dating and marrying someone already with kids. No doubt dating, marrying another with kids can work. Don't "kid" youself though. It's not going to be all hunky-dory! Be ready for challenges you never dreamed of! The "Brady Bunch" was fiction!

I personally have dated both and if the woman is right then her kids have to be as well, a single mother is a package deal.

I'd never reject a woman because she has kids.

I have in the past.

There many factors to take when dating

Your freedom to do alot of things is takin. I like to travel Its hard to do if a child is in school There's the drama of the Old EX coming around who knows if there's still a spark or a thought.

Movement for a mother is limited (Bar, Quiet coffee shop, , Movies turn into cartoons lol

If you want to know the person you have to know the kids in order to have good life with them

Im still 50/50 on this one
The last one had 2 kids and a sister sponging off her and a Ex coming around and friends all over aswell as work and me working so are time was short

I would. If a man had strong feelings against - well then, he is not worth my time or energy.

I dated women with kids before I had my own. I would do it again. The key is that the kids come first. They don't have the experience that we have.

ya why not i have and maybe will gain..

Yes, the kids come first.

Nope, not a chance. I tried it when I was younger and quickly learned I had no aptitude for, nor interest in, being a parent.

I don't have a lot of absolute deal-breakers, but that's one of them.