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Bill O'Reilly: Jennifer Aniston 'Destructive To Our Society'

First Posted: 08/11/10 02:14 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:20 PM ET

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Bill O'Reilly says recent comments Jennifer Aniston made about the role of men in child-rearing are "destructive to society."

"Women are realizing more and more knowing that they dont have to settle with a man just to have a child," Aniston said while promoting her film, "The Switch."

While O'Reilly acknowledged the strength of single mothers, he said that single-parenting is "possible, but it's not optimum, and that's where Ms. Aniston makes her mistake.

"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's destructive to our society," he said.

And he added that Aniston is "diminishing the role of the dad" in making such comments.

"Aniston can hire a battery of people to help her, but she cannot hire a dad," he said. "And dads bring a psychology to children that is, in this society, underemphasized. 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 underappreciated and diminished by people like Jennifer Aniston. she's diminishing the role of the dad."

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Bill O'Reilly says recent comments Jennifer Aniston made about the role of men in child-rearing are "destructive to society." "Women are realizing more and more knowing that they dont have to settle ...
Bill O'Reilly says recent comments Jennifer Aniston made about the role of men in child-rearing are "destructive to society." "Women are realizing more and more knowing that they dont have to settle ...
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