O'Reilly made the statement on his show on Wednesday after comments Aniston made about single motherhood.
While promoting her film "The Switch," which focuses on a woman who decides to become a single mother, the actress said on Sunday, "Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child."
""Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have
so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you
can't have children because you have waited too long," she added, according to People magazine.
O'Reilly hosted a roundtable discussion on his talk show on Wednesday to address the actress' comments.
"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," he said. "That's destructive to our society."
O'Reilly went on to argue that remarks like Aniston's are hurtful to fathers, saying, "She's diminishing the role of the dad."
"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, 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...She's diminishing the role of the dad."
O'Reilly did offer Aniston a chance to come on the show and clear up her statement.
"If she wants to explain it," he said, "She can get her butt right in here!"
Jennifer Aniston Slammed by Bill O'Reilly Over Single Motherhood Comments
By Devon Thomas
/ CBS News
NEW YORK (CBS) Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly has slammed Jennifer Aniston, saying that the actress is "destructive to our society."
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O'Reilly made the statement on his show on Wednesday after comments Aniston made about single motherhood.
While promoting her film "The Switch," which focuses on a woman who decides to become a single mother, the actress said on Sunday, "Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child."
""Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long," she added, according to People magazine.
O'Reilly hosted a roundtable discussion on his talk show on Wednesday to address the actress' comments.
"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," he said. "That's destructive to our society."
O'Reilly went on to argue that remarks like Aniston's are hurtful to fathers, saying, "She's diminishing the role of the dad."
"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, 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...She's diminishing the role of the dad."
O'Reilly did offer Aniston a chance to come on the show and clear up her statement.
"If she wants to explain it," he said, "She can get her butt right in here!"
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