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Dating For Parents Review

A great idea for a dating website catering spefically for the unique needs and concerns of single parents looking for a relationship.

Dating For Parents advertises itself as the UK’s number one online dating site for single parents seeking a new relationship. Straight away this gives it much more resposnsibility than your usual dating site – in addition to a boyfriend or a girlfriend or even a possible future husband/wife, it offers a potential new dad or mum to someone out there. 

Dating for Single Parents - Safety & Security

The first thing you read on the homepage of Dating For Parents is the pledge to your privacy and security. It is therefore a little alarming that the page won’t let you sign up with just a username – you have to provide both, your first and last name and also your phone number! Don’t worry though, not anyone can just contact you – if you register your number on the site and become a paid member, you can receive text messages and phone calls through their system. All safe.

The site isn’t meant for only finding a long-term commitment – you can specify your interests already before completing your profile, and it’s just as legitimate a place for finding some online flirting and easy dating as it is for finding a future partner for life. Who said single parents aren’t allowed to date and have fun?

Also, bear in mind that members without kids are also accepted on this site, so if you don’t have your own offspring and the idea of bringing up someone else’s children doesn’t frighten you, this is probably a good place for you. But if you have kids don’t expect to collect any brownie points off them – kids’ pictures are not allowed, even not on your profile pic and even not if they’re on it with you! All pictures will be pre-screened before they go up.

Setting up your Profile & Searching on Dating For Parents

The search provides you with all the usual options for finding a match – quick search with just the basic options and advanced search that allows you to find exactly what you’re looking for – provided a man or a woman like that exists in their database. If search isn’t quite enough for you, there’s also an option to attract the attention of hundreds of users. It’s something called Super Greeting – a weekly message that allows you to write a personal 'advertisement' and then send it to hundreds of potential matches, based on your default search. However, all the Super Greetings will be moderated and won’t reach the recipients immediately but can take up to 24 hours to be processed.

Creating a profile is good fun with a mixture of different details to enter – some of them require just ticking the boxes, some of them take a little more time to write. However, it is not all as clear and simple as it may sound, the design and build-up for the site might be a little confusing. Once you’ve finished your profile it might only seem like you’ve finished it – in reality you only get to fill the basic details in the beginning and have to go back to your profile in order to fill in rest of the stuff.
You can also create your own video on the profile – you have 30 seconds to fill, all you need is a webcam and a mic!

Extras and Features

A great device is the 'your activity' window on the upper left corner of the site, showing clearly the new messages you’ve received, the number of viewers who have been on your site and the people who have added you as their favourite.

There is an online chat-tool that paid users cans access very easily. Once you find your match, you will then immediately see if (s)he is online and available to chat. With just one click you can then open the pop-up window with their online chat software and be talking to your match within just seconds. There’s also the video profile tool, which enables you to make a short introduction of yourself and upload it as a little video.

Free vs Paid site

Free users don’t get to do much on this site – basically it’s just sign up, create your profile and browse around. Paid members however get to send/recieve messages, create a video profile, and use the chat. With £5.99 a week, this really is a bargain!

Pros and Cons

You can’t beat the price oin this one – and you can even sign up weekly for just £5.99! And that’s not all – you can even sign up with your mobile.
The way the site has been built up and designed can be a little confusing.