Parents scrapping classic fairy tales because they are too scary, report says

Snow White and Seven Dwarfs statues at Disneyland

Classic fairy tales are too scary and gruesome for modern kids, and parents are saying and they are no longer reading them to their children. Could holding off on watching the classic Disney movies be far behind?

A recent survey of 2,000 adults in the United Kingdom found 52 percent of parents saying Cinderella did not send a good message because it portrays women as doing housework all day, according to an article on The Telegraph website.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a no-no because the term "dwarfs" is inappropriate. Goldilocks and the Three Bears sends the wrong message about stealing, and Rapunzel is off limits because parents are worried about the focus on a young girl being kidnapped. Jack and the Beanstalk? Just "unrealistic."

Now, let's remember fairy tales were created to teach children common-sense lessons, including that that actions have consequences. Whether these original tales need to be updated and made more PC is another question.

As for the Disney classics ... Well, Disney tends to clean up the the scarier parts of most of these original tales, with one exception: They have no problem killing off parents. I wonder what would happen if you polled parents on that?