In a way I think they are,but then again I don’t think it is right to gossip about people you don’t know especially if they are children.I am indifferent on this one.
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I guess it comes w/ the territory but it’s not fair.

Oh, and how can one compare the Obama children to Paris Hilton anyway???

ETA: Nope, I’ve never been one to care at all about someone else’s personal life, no matter how famous they are.
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I don’t think even the celebrities themselves are "fair game", let alone their children. It saddens me that these people can’t even walk to their mailbox without 50 thousand photographers standing in their driveway snapping photos. They are just normal people like you and I who just so happen to have an interesting job. I know so many people argue "It comes with the territory", but sheesh. Its gone too far I think. They are still real life human beings like everyone else and deserve at least a little bit of privacy and normalcy. ESPECIALLY for their children.

*What if instead of movie stars, musicians and vocalists getting all the attention, suddenly all nurses or all bankers were in the lime light. Just because they have a certain career means everyone has the right to photograph them, follow them and write detailed (and usually fabricated) stories about their personal life? Photogs suddenly have the right to photograph their children and spread crazy rumors about them? Or tell all the details of their most recent sexual experiences? People feel they have a right to know about them and gossip about them just because they are a nurse or a banker?! Yeah, that’s completely "fair". These people are just people. I don’t know why so many other people are so enthralled with them.
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Unfortunately it goes with the parents territory however unfair it is.

I don’t read gossip mags or watch those shows anyway
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Depends. What age are they and what are we gossiping about?

If they are over 16 (ballpark number, adjust it how you see fit), are they making simple, run of the mill, childish mistakes? Or are they, say, arriving at one of LA’s trendiest night clubs in shorty-short dress w/ no panties on & on the arm of one of Hollywood’s most notorious playboys, when they know good and well that every photog in the city will be there?
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No! not a chance! does anyone else remember what they did to chelesa clinton?? it was awful! i think children should be off limits. they didn’t ask for it. leave them be. that is something that ticks me off honestly. leave the kids out of it. to pick on a CHILD is wrong on so many levels and to do make a dig at them because of their parents? so wrong.
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I wouldn’t want others gossiping about my children… so why would they.. they are people just like we are…and kids are kids…just like our kids! My answer of course..is NO!
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No child is fair game to be talked about.
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Perhaps, with very known and popular celebrities. But it can always be avoidable. I wouldn’t say there would be gossip with the less known popular ones though.
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I don’t think children of celebrities who don’t court the media (Al la kardashians, hiltons, etc, who DO) are not fair game.

As for celebrities whining about being bothered all the time, MOVE out of LA or New York, get a private place, don’t go to the media hot spots. Anyone ever hear Johnny dep, or Goldie hawn or Michael Douglas complaining about being bothered? Nope. Why? They moved out of the limelight. Anyone getting shots of their kids in the park? Nope.
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If the parent keeps them out of the "spotlites"
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