Posted on 08/13/2010 10:10:06 AM PDT by dselig
Jennifer Aniston is firing back at Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, after he responded to comments she made about single mothers by calling the actress comments "destructive to our society."
"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth," Aniston told People magazine. "And, of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who've not yet found their Bill O'Reilly, I'm just glad science has provided a few other options."
While promoting her new film "The Switch," in which she plays a women who decides to get pregnant using a sperm donor, Aniston told reporters that "times have changed" and women no longer have to wait for a man to have a baby.
"Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," she said. "Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere."
On "The O'Reilly Factor" last week, the host accused the actress of "diminishing the role of the dad" and called her comments "destructive to our society."
"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," O'Reilly said.
"Aniston can hire a battery of people to help her, but she cannot hire a dad," he continued. "And dads bring a psychology to children that is, in this society, under-emphasized. I think that men get hosed all day long in the parental arena...any man who leaves their children is not a man. Let's make that perfectly clear. But the fathers who do try hard are under-appreciated and diminished by people like Jennifer Aniston
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This dummy obviously has no clue what love or family is.
I DO NOT get the attraction to jenniferaniston. She is old and pretty run of the mill in the looks department.
What Jen doesn’t get is that HAVING a child is not the same as RAISING a child.
Seems like staying in a relationship with Ms. Aniston is one, too.
Maybe Jennifer should spend some time with a quality therapist to figure out why she can’t attract and keep a good man with ‘fatherly instincts.’ Maybe THEN she’d be ready to be a mom. My guess is that there’s a huge longing in her heart to love someone unreservably and have them love her the same way, and a kid is just easier than an adult man.
As someone who has worked with the products of single motherhood for years, I have to say Jennifer Anniston is full of crap.
Not only is she ignorant of the realities of the situation, she prattles on about it with the hip, cool certainty of those who have their simple answer that coincidentally agrees with their liberal politics.
Many women become single mothers by necessity, and they deserve our support and even praise. But to casually say science has assisted in this situation, when single parenthood is at best a distant second to the situation that is best for THE CHILD, as opposed to what is convenient for the selfish parent, shows she should stick to situations where someone with a brain has written out what she has to say on the pages of a screenplay.
Idiot.
Clever statement by Jen’s publicist.
She needs more flair.
Decorative, but brainless. I wouldn’t want that dimbulb raising (or contributing DNA to) my children.
I can understand why some women are believed to be attractive even if I don't care for their looks, but I have never understood how this average-looking person who can barely act is considered attractive.
Just another case of Hollywood idiots trying to tell us that we should be liberal about some subject.
I’d hit it. (Nobody has said that on FR for a while, so I thought it was time)
Actually, Jen and Bill are evenly matched, intellect-wise.
When the kid asks who is daddy is she can tell them that your dad was a guy that like to pump it a few times and leave it in a tube to be used by a woman that couldn’t hold onto a man later.
Bill’s just upset because Jennifer won’t return his phone calls.
Not only does she have a problem attracting a suitable “Prince Charming” but also keep from sapping their will to live.
Shut up and act.
Jennifer is the poster child for “No matter how hot she is, there is a guy somewhere who is tired of her s—t.”
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