When I was dating, I wouldn’t date a man with children.
In the manosphere they use a 0 to 10 number to evaluate the sexual market value (SMV) of women.
There are many criteria in that evaluation.
One of those is whether she has kids.
That automatically knocks two to three points off the SMV.
That is because the child will be a higher priority than her man will be—even if that man becomes her husband.