Would you be leery of becoming involved with someone who had three or four children, and all of them had a different mother/father? A friend of mine is in the 'talking' stage of dating this woman who has four kids by three different men. I don't want to rain on his parade, but another of our friends had less trouble being blunt about how suspect this seemingly makes her character.

I'm not saying they should be stoned at the gates of the city but sorry. I don't think it speaks well of someone who has multiple children with multiple partners.

Eh, I would be cautious, but it's not the big deal breaker. I guess it depends on the person. I actually dated a guy like that. We didn't work out, but it wasn't because of some baby mama drama.

I would be leery. Not saying that I wouldn't date a guy who had a handful of baby mama's, but (well, actually, I probably wouldn't if there were more than 3) I would be inclined to heavily scrutinize the situation to the point where it would probably collapse under the weight of my own cynicism.

My mother had four children by three different husbands and my father had another wife and two kids with her before he met my mother...when it's through marriage it's a little bit different but it's still a very confusing thing.