Some children are seeing a different side of the wildly popular Disney movie “Frozen.”
An “unauthorized” game is available on iTunes in which the player gives one of the characters, Princess Anna, a Cesarean section birth.
According to the Orlando Sentinel:
The app Anna Giving Birth opens with Anna and Kristoff greeting users with their little bundle of joy. Once you place “play,” the app presents a montage showing the duo’s wedding and ends with a picture of visibly pregnant Anna.
Next, it’s off to the operating room — if you can really call it that. The app directs you to scan Anna’s stomach then inject Anna in the arm so she falls asleep.
Fox 2 calls the game “intense.”
Children then use a scalpel to slice the character’s abdomen.
“A newborn baby miraculously appears and gamers are prompted to again use the scalpel to cut the umbilical cord,” according to the news station.
It reports some parents are upset about the “graphic nature” of the game that will invariably find an audience in pre-teen girls.
Psychotherapist Andrea Nair calls the game disturbing.
“It’s potentially harmful to young children,” she tells Yahoo Parenting.
“Cesarean deliveries are typically an emergency room procedure,” she says. “You don’t want children to expect that that’s how babies are always born.”
iTunes rates it as appropriate for ages 4 and above.
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