Single Parents Mingle Review

Being a single parent is an enormous challenge. Juggling work and family is a tough proposition for any parent but when you have to do it all alone, it can mean your romantic life taking a backseat. Fortunately the internet allows single parents to meet potential partners over niche dating sites and then decide whether they want to take it from there. One such site which has become quite popular in recent times is Single Parents Mingle.

Single Parents Mingle is a personals site for all those singles who are parents as well. Having children at home adds an extra dimension to dating. You can no longer make plans in an impulse or bring home whoever you want. Moreover you have to consider what and how much you are going to tell your kids about your partners. All these factors make dating a complex issue for single parents which only others in a similar situation are likely to understand and appreciate. Single Parents Mingle offers exactly this kind of meeting ground for singles who are eager to make connections but who at the same time understand the challenges of dating with children. Best of all, the site allows users to choose from any level of relationship –  here one can look for partners for simple companionship, dating, romance and even marriage. While the site appears to be primarily directed to meeting the relationship needs of users from United States and Canada, single parents from anywhere across the world are welcome to join. The site restricts itself to encouraging straight relationships and does not allow same-sex love. Also adult content is prohibited on the site so that its primary users can have a comfortable and wholesome environment for online dating.

Getting registered with Single Parents Mingle is quite easy and best of all does not cost you anything. All you have to do is to answer a few multiple choice questions relating to your gender, physical characteristics like body type, height, eye and hair color, your ethnicity, religion and lifestyle habits like smoking and drinking. Since this is a site which is serious about making connections between single parents, there are questions on your marital status and attitude towards having children which you have to answer in order to register. Once you submit other personal details like your date of birth, geographical location, full name and email address, you will be asked to choose a unique user name and password with which you will later log into the site. After your registration is over, you can then move on to creating your dating profile. Here you have the option of speeding things up by submitting a brief self-introduction and a headline in order to complete your profile. However considering that single parents rarely have the leisure to waste time on incompatible dates, the site offers a detailed profile-creating section. You are asked to write short essays on important topics like your expectations from a partner, your values and priorities in life and the kind of relationships you are looking for. While completing this section may seem time consuming, it actually pays to find out all about a person you can at the outset so that you can move ahead with only those who fit the bill. After your profile is complete, you need to accompany it with some good photos and then you are all set to start looking.

Single Parents Mingle has a couple of compatibility tools which are a great help to single parents looking for love. One of these is a two-way Ideal Matching feature which involves a questionnaire that you can fill while creating your dating profile. Your answers to the questionnaire will be used to compile the perfect match for you after which the site will send you emails and notifications relating to those profiles who come closest to your Ideal Match.

The other compatibility tool is the Color Coded Personality Profiling. This is a test which will determine your personality type according to certain colors, following which you can look for matches whose motivations are compatible with yours.
Finally there is a Think You’d Click feature as you are viewing search results. This brings up three options ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Maybe’ next to each profile on search results. If you choose ‘no’, the site will never again suggest that profile as your match, if you click on ‘maybe’ the site will again ask you later but if you click on ‘yes’, the site will put up the same options to that particular member and in case he/she clicks on yes, it will notify you both about the happy result. This is quite useful in finding out anonymously if a member is interested in you.

All the above matchmaking tools can be found on other dating sites owned by Sparks Network. However what makes them significant at Single Parents Mingle is the fact that they allow you to focus on only those matches you are most compatible with. Single parents rarely have the time or leisure to play around. So anything that works to weed out unsuitable matches and helps members to know each other well before initiating contact is definitely a boon.

Single Parents Mingle allows all its members to view profiles, photos and message boards but to contribute to the latter you need to become a paid member. There are various levels of browsing at the site ranging from quick search by age, gender and location to more advanced categories like username, keywords, recently updated profiles, new members or any specific part of the profile. Apart from these you can also see who is online, should you wish to chat with someone at that very moment
Communication features like most dating sites are allowed only to paid members. Upon subscribing to a membership plan at Single Parents Mingle, you can send to and receive e-mails from other members, connect on a one-to-one basis by instant messaging or log into one of the site’s several chat rooms. The Mingle Mail feature allows you to send mails anonymously until you are ready to disclose your identity through regular emails. Free members too have some room to initiate contact by sending e-cards, smiles, flirts or flashes.

Single Parents Mingle offers two types of membership plans to its users. The first is free and includes creating and posting a profile and photos as well as searching facilities. The second, the Premium Membership is paid and starts from $9.99 per month. Should you wish to subscribe for a longer period to the site, you can also choose from the quarterly and half-yearly plans.