Online Dating and The Single Parent

One of the most fascinating studies to emerge about online singles dating and relationships online in general was the study by Baker, A which was published in the journal of CyberPsychology & Behavior. In the study Baker, A found out that people who use online dating are not the shy people one things they are, many of them are quite outgoing and not shy at all, they just choose to date online for various reasons which included the convenience of online dating over they typical ways men gets to meet women such as work/school, friends/family, bar/discos.

Of his various finding, one that seem to be the most interesting was the fact that he claimed that groups of people who benefited most from online dating were single parents and gays. Single parents he argued usually socialise with other parents, most of whom are married which limits the scope for dating, childcare also contribute to single parents dating but the convenience of login to a computer and searching profiles of eligible singles is brought right into the desktop of a single woman via online dating

Baker, A’s argument about single parents finding it difficult to find a date via the three most popular ways of meeting a partner make using the fourth; online dating the most realistic prospect, this was also discussed extensively at Im Yours online dating forum where some members said without online dating, the prospect of them finding love was extremely bleak.

The above finding explains the huge popularity of online dating recently, most people this days knows a friend or a friend of a friend who has meet his or her partner via online dating site, even in the current economic downturn, online dating industry seem to continue booming and actually performing better that it was performing when time were good as singles looks for partners to weather the current economic storm with.