“I don’t need a man to be a mother, ” says Jennifer Aniston. I’m not sure where she is going with this statement. I mean, sure, anyone can adopt a child or be artificially inseminated to be a mother. You don’t need to be in a relationship with a man for these things to happen. Technically you do need a man to become a mother – just saying–a women can’t get pregnant without a man’s involvement- an adopted child can’t be born without a man’s involvement.
The real issue here is not the mother. Everything is about self-fulfillment- what makes you happy…what you need…what you don’t need.
Any thought about that child? Every child needs a father, period. Not every father is perfect, some may even be destructive to a child’s growth. But the fact remains that every child NEEDS and WANTS a father. To deny this fact is total self-indulgence on a mother’s part.
When you have a child, the program is no longer about just you and your needs and wants. That child and his or her future depends on a loving relationship with BOTH a mother and a father. A child raised with the belief that a father is not needed will undoubtably grow up to believe the same thing. Then what will become of our society? All single parents?

Good stuff, but perhaps rather than saying "father" we should talk about "male role models." After all, gay parents are either all father or all mother, and if children of gay parents can grow up to be healthy people, which I'll assume they can for the sake of this comment (and the children), then seemingly they were able to find healthy role models of either sex outside the immediate family.