Rosie O'Donnell Causes Controversy with Picture of Daughter

A few days ago, Rosie O'Donnell posted a picture of her youngest daughter on her website. In this picture, her 4 year old daughter is dressed in a camo uniform and sporting a toy ammo belt. This picture has caused quite a stir not only on her website, but on major news stations as well.

Both Fox News and MSNBC aired video segments concerning this picture. Both of these segments were filled with innuendos that Ms. O'Donnell intentionally dressed her daughter this way and "used" her daughter to help make her point concerning her political views. These news segments also quoted messages left on her website by various citizens that seem both concerned and outraged about the pictures.

A visit to the website Rosie.com, however, would shed some light on a few of the views that the news stations failed to report on. Rosie has stated many times in response to questions, that her daughter was playing soldier with her older brothers. You may or may not know, but Rosie and her partner are also proud parents of two boys. It is a quite common thing for boys to dress up and play soldier, cowboys and indians and other games that may seem "violent" to some. It is also quite common for little sisters to want to be involved in their siblings games.

Is Rosie a bad parent for allowing her daughter to dress up as a soldier? Well, if that is the case, then there are millions of other parents in the world that are bad parents as well. Due to her celebrity status, Rosie O'Donnell and her family live under a looking glass. Apparently, viewing people through this looking glass creates quite a skewed view of things. People are claiming she should have her children taken away from her because of this. What kind of world do we live in, that people are actually going to say a parent should have their child taken away from them for allowing them to play dress up?