Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to have that child….
They are realizing if it’s that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that.
~Jennifer Aniston, speaking at a recent press conference for her new movie, The Switch, in which she plays a single woman who is artificially inseminated, as quoted by CitizenLink, August 12.
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Selfish. A child, brought into this world not out of love between two people, not to become a part of the family, not to have a father, but just out of a whim of a woman who thought the clock is ticking and later might be too late…. I don’t judge, as I haven’t been in their shoes, but I don’t agree with it either. If so happened that you haven’t met the right person and wasn’t given the grace of your own chidren, why not give a home to the ones that are orphaned, abandoned and need a foster home? I wanted to suggest adoption, but then realized it’s probably near impossible for single people….
It’s so sad an unfortunate how Ms. Aniston’s romantic life has played out in the media. However, she needs to insert the word “affluent” or “rich” because an average woman cannot affort the expense of fertility treatments, nannies, and more that are just a drop in the bucket for wealthier women like Aniston. And may I take this moment to thank my dad for all the hard work and sacrifice over the years: Thanks Dad! Both of my parents did their best for us, and I can’t imagine how hard it would have been for my mom to have been totally on her own. One family that I babysat for as a teenager would hire me for a couple hours at a time so that mom could take a shower and dad could nap before his night job. Hats off to all parents!
Women had other options before. It’s called adoption.
Jennifer, your acting is decent, your comments here are less than impressive.
Coming from a woman who hasn’t raised a single child.
Jennifer has a movie to push – and an agenda.
In most cases, single parenthood isn’t something that should be actively sought. I say “most cases” because I’d rather have kids with no parents be adopted by a single parent than not be adopted at all.
Kids need to grow up spending a lot of time with someone who loves them and will remain an active part of their lives as long as they’re both alive. My guess would be that the children of two working parents probably spend more time each week with a parent - one, the other, or both - than the children of a single parent. Kids should not be raised by babysitters or nannies.
I also think it’s important for kids to have close family members of both sexes, regardless of their parental situation. Children need to learn what kind, loving, responsible men and women are like. My dad works with a woman who has no men in her family. She’s divorced and her ex-husband is out of the picture; both of her daughters are single mothers with daughters of their own. Three generations and no men or boys. I don’t think that’s healthy.
If it weren’t for the fact that men everywhere are “fiddling” with themselves for a a few bucks, women would indeed still have to “fiddle with men to have that child…”
In defense of Jen, though I haven’t seen the movie, it does seem that the lead role is the man who is struggling with the fact that he is only considered a “sperm donor” and seeks a meaningful relationship with his offspring and the mother of his child. I can imagine that at the end of the film, though at first not happy with it, the father remains a father-figure in his child’s life without the mutual affection of Jen’s character… who is actually NOT the protagonist, but he. This is a good message even if it comes out of something as tragic as artificial insemination.
Marauder- I’m frightened by a picture of our future somewhere between “Children of Men” (women world-wide become sterile and one unlucky lady gets pregnant) and “Jurassic Park” (all the dino’s where females, but “life found a way”)