A lot of states include tattooing under their “ritual mutilation” laws. They are not looking at parental consent so much as much parental insanity. There’s lots of things kids want that maybe parents should not let them have. Parens patriae.
Some “cultures” do ritual scarring of children, but I believe the laws became more widespread with the notoriety of female circumcision and they caught up tattooing in the dragnet for fear of being accused of religious prejudice
September 18th, 2012 at 10:16 am
A lot of weird shit like this goes down in Flower Mound..
September 18th, 2012 at 10:38 am
A lot of states include tattooing under their “
ritualmutilation” laws. They are not looking at parental consent so much as much parental insanity. There’s lots of things kids want that maybe parents should not let them have. Parens patriae.September 18th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Tattooing a child is dumb – but I’m not at all sure it should be illegal.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Some “cultures” do ritual scarring of children, but I believe the laws became more widespread with the notoriety of female circumcision and they caught up tattooing in the dragnet for fear of being accused of religious prejudice