On mumsnet having dads around seems to work, possibly because of the volume of posters.
But I just have to point out, that on another board for single parents that I used to visit on a completely different forum, the mums were on average younger mums, and the four or five Dads that were around were older, divorced, bitter, into blaming the women for everything. They 'grouped' together and backed eachotehr up all the time, no matter what the issue.
eg, "I'm scared my cocaine-taking child's father won't look after her so I want to go to court to restrict access". Cue 5 angry posts from caped crusaders to abuse her for denying her child a father figure and trumping up exaggerated claims. Some young Mum doing her best would be left even more devastated.
All of these single fathers were in their late 30s at least, all educated, intelligent and as bitter as CUFk if you'll excuse my French. They took their own baggage out on vulnerable young single mums whose situations and life stories were entirely different anyway. THeir vitriol made me gag almost. They seemed to promote the idea that the mother had the responsibility for her child's sake to bend over backwards to accommodate the father, regardless of what class of a wanker/bastard/abuser he was. ANd if she didn't then it was "child abuse!" and she should be "ashamed"!!
I know that is not Mumsnet. But I've seen what CAN happen. And people are people. If the dynamics changed slightly, this could happen again somewhere else.
Single Dads are entitled to be bitter you could argue, but they're not entitled to show up on a forum that 's supposed to be supportive and do the opposite of support. ie, attack and criticise.
I'll be lambasted for this perhaps, but I know what I saw.