During a recent press conference, Jennifer Aniston spoke out in favor of non-traditional families, single motherhood, and the wonderful advantages women have today. What she was referring to is the ability of women to have kids , such as the character she plays in her recent movie The Switch, without a husband or boyfriend. Her character becomes pregnant via in-vetro fertilization, something Aniston vigorously defends during said press conference.
When asked about the repercussions of raising a child without a father, Aniston said she believes all types of families can raise healthy kids.
"The point of the movie is what is it that defines family? It isn't necessarily the traditional mother, father, two children and a dog named Spot," she said. "Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere. That is what I love about this movie. It is saying it is not the traditional sort of stereotype of what we have been taught as a society of what family is."
What defines a family, indeed. I am happy to see Aniston come out and strongly support non-traditional families and parenting. There is indeed no evidence whatsoever that shows unequivocally that in order for a child to be well adjusted and good, he or she must be raised by a mother and father. That is something our American, puritanical, cultural modelers just made up.
On single motherhood, Aniston made a particularly touching comment, remarking "Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child.". In this one, simple, comment, Aniston is vocalizing what years of feminism and womanism have been working towards: a public, pop cultural -level recognition that raising children isn't a male/female only domain. That single mothers are not to be looked down upon, that women don't need a man to be successful.
Thank you Jennifer.
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