Do you have tattoos? Myself, I have 4. Whether you have any or not, would you let your child get one? This story on Yahoo caught my attention about a mother, who was moonlighting as a tattoo artist, was arrested this past month after giving her 11-year-old daughter a tattoo. She claims that she did not know the law in her state (which, in North Carolina, a minor can’t get a tattoo even with a parent/guardian’s consent). If I were wanting to be a tattoo artist, the first thing I would be learning is the law in my state on it! I can’t believe she had no idea. (By the way, you can see the tattoo and piercing laws in your state here!)
The thing that gets me in the whole story is the fact that she had put the tattoo on the child last year and just got arrested last month. Apparently a former in-law of the mother’s put in a police report in retaliation of a report that the mom had filed against her daughter’s paternal grandfather. I have to say it makes me sick that the former in-law did it out of retaliation. That’s just not right.
Would you let your underage daughter and/or son get a tattoo (if it’s legal for a minor to get one with a parent’s consent, of course)? Me? I don’t think I would. I had to wait until I was 18 to get my first, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with waiting! What’s your opinion?
I’m a 20-something stay-at-home mother and wife. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful daughter, two loving dogs, and a lazy cat. I wouldn’t change my life for anything! I love to read, listen to music, cook and blog!
I will NOT let my kid(s) get a tattoo unless they are 18 years old to the second. When they’re 18, heck, I’ll even take them and get one with them. But they’re waiting until they’re 18.
I was going to post about this ,too. I would if she was serious and thought about ti for a long time. I personally got my first tattoo on my 18th birthday without much thought and I regret it. My other 4 tattoos all mean something and were thought on for a year at least before committing. If she was like 15 and had a drawing she’d been obsessing over for a few years, then yeah. If it were legal, why not?
I signed for my son to get one at 15. Once I did that he got about 4 more. The guy was good and licensed and my husband even got a couple by the guy. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Our friends son went behind their back and ended up getting one at a tattoo party and the guy probably wasn’t even licensed. There going to do it one way or another and I would rather know who was doing the tattoo.
I’ll be 30 in a week and I still don’t have any tattoos and I’m glad. I think back to the things I would have gotten in the past and cringe at the thought of having to look at that the rest of my life lol. I’m just not a tattoo person and I’m very fickle. I definitely would NOT let my son get a tattoo before 18. After that, it’s up to him, but I hope he would think long and hard about it beforehand.
Our son came home and announced that he wanted a tattoo. We were both against it because so many people have and still are getting hepatitis C from tattoos, but his dad told him when he was 18, he could get one then. I said, why did you tell him that? LOL Well, 18 rolled around and his friends were still getting them, but he never mentioned it again. When he was about 30, it was mentioned and he said when his friend Shane got the huge tattoo on his back, he was with him and he decided he didn’t want to go through the pain. LOL He is nearly 36 and still doesn’t have one.
Awwwww, I almost forgot the little 11-year-old girl. Probably the parents have tattoos, but I would feel terrible if I signed to give permission for it and then they had hepatitis the rest of their lives. I don’t know if I could get over it. Folks just think about when you get old and you have tattoos all over you. It just doesn’t look good. I sure don’t like to see young women covered all over like the one I saw at Walmart with both arms and legs covered in tattos, pushing a baby in the grocery cart. It still almost shocks me when I see so many on one person.
wow thats terrible