The famous 30's and 40's writer William Sarayon stole the credit/money for this song from his cousin (or so I remember)

Adding your blog and Z's blog to my favorites.  

Third incarnation for both.

Yes, unless the person in your age range is old enough to have grown and gone children, a strange desire.  I guess a guy would have a shot at dating Sharon Stone, then.

My favorite is when someone who says they are a light/social drinker asks that their date be a heavy/very heavy drinker.  Are they thinking: "I'm drinking a decent amount, but I'd really like someone to inspire me to drink a lot more.  I can DO better -- I can BE better than this."

The example doesn't work, since you're too old for these guys.  Approximately 5 years past the sell-by date.  

How do you feel about dating "youngish" 50 year old dads?  That's 5 years past your upper limit, no?

They'd rather the kids live with the ex, of course. That would simplify dating someone with kids a lot--it'd be more like becoming an uncle than a parent.

There is an abundance of oxymorons on many profiles.  Part of it is in the phrasing of the questions.  When describing myself, I say I have children already that live with me part-time, and I'm happy with what I already have.  That MIGHT be misconstrued that I don't want to date women with children, even if I counter it in the "what I'm looking for" part.  That's totally not the case.  I love children, but I'd be loathe to be part of creating another one.  

I agree that it's weird that a guy wouldn't think twice, given our cultural zeitgeist, that a woman would have young children that don't live with her.  That's very very rare.  There is always the chance that the father just had a better lawyer, but that's rare too.  Women, for the most part are simply granted custody.  Men usually have to fight bitterly for it.  New York State is very conservative with regards to divorce and child custody.  A friend of mine got stuck with a judge for his divorce that refused to take into consideration that his child's mother had twice overdosed on oxycontin and had been arrested for drunk & disorderly conduct... nice, right?  

Anyway, the survey part of these profiles can tell an awful lot about where a person's head is at.  I love the 40+ women who have no children, but want them, and are looking for a 40+ man with no children at all.  To each their own.  

Perhaps any woman who wants to can get custody over the kids (though that sounds like sexism in the courtroom to me). Still, those guys don't want a woman who can't get custody of the kids, they want a woman who doesn't *want* custody. They want to start dating someone without having to immediately see themselves as fathers, and I can understand why. Becoming a parent is a big decision, and I wouldn't want to tie that decision to the beginnings of a long-term relationship, when things are tricky enough already.