It's my fIrm opinion that any guy willing to take on another man's brood don't have a lot of options...fuck that noise.
One kid....BFD...everybody has one kid...it cancels out.
It can still be a tough game to play. I was dumb enough to get married to a woman with one kid. If memory serves me right, she was six at the time.
We had dated for awhile and set a date a year later. Things were going pretty well.
So, we go through the whole nice wedding thing and hit Playa Del Carmen. It was OK.
Get back home and hell starts up with her kids dad. She had whined a little about child support and stuff like that. Then I become aware of a vicious custody case that had went through the court system.
Shit went South over time and there was nothing I could do about it.
This dude was awful, and I couldn't go get him because he would have called 911 and had us in court.
Be careful with women.