[waitinginnj]

Once a parent, your goals for a social life change. However, I became a parent at 38 years old and did the social thing already.

You can have a social life as a single parent, but it is more targeted. If you have a support system for babysitting, you likely will save your use of that support system for critical things - sick days, crisis at work and then maybe for an occassional social outing.

Babysitting is at least $10 an hour where I live, so even with a decent salary, I really have to want to spend that money, to go out to dinner or to a movie. And there is a challenge in finding someone that you trust and is dependable.

A lot of my social interaction is in family oriented scenarios, where my daughter can attend. It has gotten more flexible as she is approaching 5.

Nothing overly new, but perhaps another prespective.