Posted on 09/18/2017 7:17:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
That afternoon in late spring, her daughter finally got the jeweled belly button ring she had been asking for, and Breuner got a reminder that her little girl was growing up.
Breuner felt a swell of emotion, she said.
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“I’m not saying everybody should do that,” she added, “but at least for me, my sense of this whole world is that it’s changing right in front of us, and we can either have our eyes open and be supportive and help our children make informed decisions when they’re young adults, or ignore it and hope it goes away.”
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Richard Dukes focused much of his research on tattoos and piercings among youth during his career as a sociology professor.
The professor emeritus at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, who was not involved in the new clinical report, said it compiles current medical knowledge and does not contradict any of his own research findings.
“Tattoo regret is fairly common because meanings, values and norms change, and tattoos do not,” Dukes said, adding that when someone gets a tattoo at an older age, the likelihood for regret is less.
“We have three grown sons. Two of them wanted to be tattooed. We said to wait until you are 18 and be sure to get good artwork,” Dukes said of his own family.
“They complied,” he said. “Now, one of them has had the small tattoo removed from his back, because he did not want his young daughter to think that he thought it was a good thing to do. The other son has two tattoos. I asked him if he would ever get another one. He said that if he had no tattoos, he would not get one. Since he already has tattoos, he is more likely to get another one.”
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Tattooes on women scream skank with STDs - bgill
My daughter wanted pierced ears. I told her she had to be old enough and responsible enough to care for them. For her fourteenth birthday we went and bought nice ear rings and had her ears pierced.
I got one of those india ink semi permanent ones at the beach once.
But copying people with piercings to be different isn't being different.
16 is the rule in my family. Tattoos and other piercings only if they’re out of the house AND financially independent. So far, that’s only the daughter who joined the military at 18!
Second daughter has hinted - “I’m as old as she was! You can’t stop me!” - and I said, “Go ahead, roll the dice.” She has not.
I am far from judgmental or prudish but this is appalling. If I can avoid it,hypothetically,I would not date,hire,eat food or do business with a obscenely tattooed or freaky pierced human. I suspect many have esteem issues or once or many times lost all sense of perspective.
Piecing the ears of baby girls is the norm in the culture my wife if from. We did it for may daughter and she wore the same small earrings my wife wore as a baby.
I was surprised how many people thought the dainty earrings were pretty on my infant daughter and that was over 30 years ago when it was not an American thing.
What is the reason behind this practice?
A single set of piercings so one can wear cute ear rings is not an unreasonable request.
At the time we lived in a state that did not allow tattoos for anyone under 18. I don’t know if she ever got another piercing. If so it doesn’t show. Have no idea if she ever got a tat.
My dad (navy) had a fouled anchor on his bicep that looked like a squatting monkey when he got old. Dont think he regretted it but likely wouldn’t have gotten it if he could have had a do-over.
His response to my teenage ideas of getting tattoos was not “ you can’t do that” but “son, the way you run around I gotta think identifying marks are probably not a good idea”....I couldn’t argue with that.
My dad said if I wanted a piercing or a tattoo that I could find another place to live first.
I still have no identifiable markings.
Piercings and tattoos are all part of the "ghetto cool" trash being sold to our kids via music and entertainment industry.
Growing up I told my sons that they could get an ear ring or a tattoo the day they could kick my a$$. I told them that decisions to spend money on such foolishness was evidence that their priorities are screwed up.
One is now 29 and the other 33. Neither has a tattoo or an ear ring.
Those folks have a serious issue with their Central Processing Unit.
That's the rule in our family. We also strongly advise them to think long and hard about the content of any permanent marking they may be contemplating.
Crack parenting for sure.
Be tough. My son came home wit ear pierced at 18 at urging of girlfriend.
My reaction was take it out now or get out andpay for your own schooling. We are not the type of people who follow cultural trends. Any regret will not be my fault.
My attitude was verbalized often and loudly.
All the evidence shows that not one kid or 23 grandkids has a tattoo and only one had a tiny ear ring.
Oops! Should say
they and look especially trashy on women
I was watching Chopped on the food channel. They had a chef on there who was tattooed up and down the arms and on his hands.
I’m sure he is clean (he is a chef after all and the judges would have objected) but it looks dirty to me.
I just don’t want to see tattooed hands touching my food. I am a wuss, I guess.
Ack! Still messed up. Trying again
and they look especially trashy on women
I agree. Drama Queen, my 17-year-old, gave herself another couple of holes in one ear, *shudder*, but that's very common. My mother's best friend, the 82-year-old wife of a retired Admiral, has three holes in one ear!
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