And foul-mouthed tabloid show hosts aren't?
Posted on 08/11/2010 12:18:42 PM PDT by dselig
While promoting her movie 'The Switch' earlier this week, Jennifer Aniston told reporters that women don't need men to start a family or be good mothers. When Bill O'Reilly caught wind of her statement, he debated the topic of single motherhood on 'The O'Reilly Factor' and called out the 41-year-old actress.
"She's throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, 'Hey you don't need a guy. You don't need a dad.' That is destructive to our society," O'Reilly railed.
FOX News contributor Margaret Hoover and FOX News anchor Gretchen Carlson debated the topic with O'Reilly, admitting young teens wouldn't be able to comprehend the vast differences between a 40-year-old woman and a teenager raising a child as a single mother. "She is glamorizing single parenthood," Carlson said.
In 'Switch,' Aniston plays a woman who elects to take on life as a single parent through artificial insemination. During the movie's press conference in LA, the actress admitted "times have changed" and women don't need to rely on men to be good mothers.
And foul-mouthed tabloid show hosts aren't?
Those nannies are no substitute for actual parenting by a biological mother and father in a stable low conflict marriage.
Fine. Let HER pick up the tab for their upbringing and take responsibility for the loser drug-addict and perennially unemployed wards of the state they turn out to be!!
there are always exception to the rules... it doesn’t help when levi johnston’s 15 minutes keep getting extended.
Idiot.
Look at the stats of what percentage of criminals come from single parented families, what percentage of mentally challanged kids come from single parented families and you can see just how wrong she is.
...As long as the US Government is there to pay for everything!
Sorry, But I had to complete the idiot's sentence!
...As long as the US Government is there to pay for everything!
Sorry, But I had to complete the idiot's sentence!
To quote that great social arbitor of our time, Homer Simpson, ‘celebrities, is there nothing they don’t know?’
Yes, Bill. Her view is destructive to society.
So is the hoax called “global warming” that you have fallen in lock-step with.
From what I understand her father was in the entertainment industry, and spent little time with her. Therefore, she developed the idea that men are untrustworthy and will always abandon you.
FREE government money is a curse and Obama money is a drug, a hallucinogen....
Laura Ingram’s a single mother - what’s her take on this?
Well, there you go, MGG!
She’s actually undermining the old argument for abortion...that a single mother would be “ashamed.”
“There are plenty of Hollywood Bastard children.”
It’s questionable if those with ‘both parents’ are much better off.
Just kind of usless in my opinion.
This came up on another similar thread. The big difference is context. Laura Ingraham, like many single mothers, adopted two children from orphanages, one of whom came from a third-world country.
Aniston is answering this queustin during a press junket for her latest movie - a movie where she plays a 30-something professional who has had it with men and is going through the artificial insemination process.
I think there's a STARK difference between giving an orphaned and otherwise neglected child a loving home, and intentionally creating a child with the express purposes of NOT giving that child access to a father.
I think this is the part O'Reilly is addressing. If Jennifer Aniston wants to adopt a child, more power to her - it's a purely selfless act. BUT, if she wants to get knocked-up by a sperm donor, that's one of the most selfish things a (single) woman can do, IMHO.
Many may not recall this, but Candace Bergin herself came out and said later (1995?) that Dan Quayle was right. Of course, the media passed on it.
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