Single Parent Dating Site Review: Lavalife
Although not a single parent dating site persay, Lavalife is an excellent option for parents looking for low-cost ways of meeting new people. Here’s why:
- Offers three different sections for users to join: Dating, Relationships and Intimate Encounters. Users can pick and choose which sides they want their profiles to show up in, and even change their handle and profile completely from one to the next should they desire a bit of anonymity.
- Inexpensive to free, depending on who you are and how you use the site. I was a member on and off for many years, and never paid a penny because the person who makes first contact, pays. Lavalife uses a credit system, where those who pay for a full membership can purchase credits, which are then used to do a variety of things. Sending mail, for instance, costs 6 credits, while instigating chats with whomever else is online for an hour costs 12 credits.
- There are a great many ways to contact someone using Lavalife, such as smiles (free for everyone), email, instant messaging, video chat, Lavalife’s version of speed dating and live phone calls through the website.
- Lavalife has a very large user base especially in Canada. My first time using the system netted me well over 100 instant messages the first day, and countless emails. It was overwhelming to say the least!
Are there any drawbacks to Lavalife? I’ve found over the years that membership has lessened somewhat, and that many users weren’t quite looking for what they’d stated. (i.e. a gent in Relationships who was looking for more of a dating relationship) Having said that, the last I checked, there was no checkbox to say whether or not you are a single parent - so unless you mention it in your profile, there can be no sort of dating parent discrimination.
Would I recommend Lavalife to other single parents? Most definitely. Just make sure that you don’t use the same one-liner that everyone else on the site seems to prefer: I’m the one your mother warned you about.
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