Personally, I don’t shit on single mothers as people, it could happen to anyone. But as a 25 year old man with no kids it’s just not ideal for me. There’s potentially too many pre-existing additional factors that could hurt the chances of it working out that I have no control over. From past experience, I’ve noticed that some single parents take it personal when they get rejected for being single parents but really I mean if you’re dating to marry eventually that new person will have to take on some kind of step parent role. Some would just rather do that with their own kids and not have to worry about some random dude or woman coming back into the picture years later out of nowhere. I think if the biological parent died it may be even worse because you as the new person would feel like a backup because the person she/he really wanted to be with is gone permanently.