I’ve left the “children” field blank, for example, because I don’t want them now but might some day, so neither “wants” nor “doesn’t want” is correct.
I think this might be a mistake. I usually specify “Doesn’t have children” when I do a match search and I’d guess this is fairly common. If you leave this question blank I believe you won’t show up for people who are filtering on that search criteria.
I would agree 100% if that were one of the choices. The options are “has 1 child,” “has children,” “likes children,” “dislikes children,” and “doesn’t want children.” The first two are certainly wrong, I don’t have a strong enough opinion about children to choose either of the next two, and I haven’t made up my mind about the last one yet.
(Hmph—I tried several times to make that a bulleted list, using as far as I can tell the syntax in the help, but it didn’t work and eventually I gave up.)
I agree the choices aren’t ideal but I think “likes children”, “dislikes children” and “doesn’t want children” all match a search for “Doesn’t have children” whereas leaving the question blank or answering that you have children means you won’t show up in a search that specifies “Doesn’t have children”. It’s a bit confusing and not a very logical setup but I think that’s how it works.
I think you’re probably right. That gives me a good reason to answer to it, but I’m still a bit uncomfortable with all the answers. “Don’t want” is closest, though.
I agree the choices aren’t ideal but I think “likes children”, “dislikes children” and “doesn’t want children” all match a search for “Doesn’t have children”
Particularly not ideal in as much as only ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ are mutually exclusive among those options. But I suggest that anyone who puts both ‘has children’ and ‘dislikes children’ on their profile is being far too honest for their own good. ;)
I think this might be a mistake. I usually specify “Doesn’t have children” when I do a match search and I’d guess this is fairly common. If you leave this question blank I believe you won’t show up for people who are filtering on that search criteria.
I would agree 100% if that were one of the choices. The options are “has 1 child,” “has children,” “likes children,” “dislikes children,” and “doesn’t want children.” The first two are certainly wrong, I don’t have a strong enough opinion about children to choose either of the next two, and I haven’t made up my mind about the last one yet.
(Hmph—I tried several times to make that a bulleted list, using as far as I can tell the syntax in the help, but it didn’t work and eventually I gave up.)
I agree the choices aren’t ideal but I think “likes children”, “dislikes children” and “doesn’t want children” all match a search for “Doesn’t have children” whereas leaving the question blank or answering that you have children means you won’t show up in a search that specifies “Doesn’t have children”. It’s a bit confusing and not a very logical setup but I think that’s how it works.
I think you’re probably right. That gives me a good reason to answer to it, but I’m still a bit uncomfortable with all the answers. “Don’t want” is closest, though.
Particularly not ideal in as much as only ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ are mutually exclusive among those options. But I suggest that anyone who puts both ‘has children’ and ‘dislikes children’ on their profile is being far too honest for their own good. ;)