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Single dads – a love magnet? No way. The only perk is sharing the cost of a babysitter

Single dads – a love magnet? No way. The only perk is sharing the cost of a babysitter

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Date a single dad? No, thank you. I don’t see the appeal. Of course, getting together with a “superdad” has crossed my mind. I’m a single mum of two girls, Lola, seven, and Liberty, five, and the last time I tried to date a man who didn’t have children, he ran out of my flat exhausted to watch the football in the pub. I haven’t heard from him in two years since a follow-up trip to a small petting zoo in Battersea. But I find many single dads even worse. The only perk I can see to dating them is splitting the babysitter at £15 per hour for a night out. Yet according to a recent survey, men who already have children from a former partnership are like catnip on dating sites. Dating site Zoosk found that single dads receive 22 per cent more first messages than …