Stop Buying Mags With Pics of Celebrities' Kids

When Dax Shepard (Parenthood star and husband to Kristen Bell) discovered that a paparazzo had secretly snapped shots of his new baby daughter, it "broke my heart in a way that's not entirely reasonable," he writes at the Huffington Post. She hadn't decided to be a public figure, after all. So he was pleased when he heard about a new California law barring paparazzi from intrusively hunting for shots of celebrities' kids. But like the war on drugs, the law has a flaw: "It only really addressed the supply side of the equation."

That's why Shepard's calling on people to boycott magazines that feature photos of celebrities' kids taken without their parents' consent. Until people stop paying to see these photos, "there will be men popping out of bushes and lurking around playgrounds to get those pics." His hope: that "people who like looking at children in magazines must actually like children," and would reward a publication for adopting a no-kids policy. "It would be miraculous if the situation changed and celebrities' children got to be just children." Click for his full column, which goes on to address his detractors. (More Dax Shepard stories.)