The Editor, Sir:
I need someone in authority to shed some light on this new phenomenon among children called the ‘tattoo’. I am somewhat confused as to what children are allowed to do these days.
Are they allowed to wear a permanent tattoo? Is this one of the rights of the child? Are there medical consequences down [...]
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Tattoos and child rights
Death-wish Tattoo on Chest
A 79-year-old grandmother in New Zealand has just had her first tattoo – the instruction “Do not resuscitate” emblazoned in capital letters across her chest.
Paula Westoby, who lives in the South Island city of Dunedin, says the message is for the benefit of medical staff in case she is taken ill.
The smartly dressed, middle-class pensioner [...]
Dr. M’s 25 Days of Deep Sea Christmas: #8 Tattoo
Inserting ink into the skin for decorative purposes, identification, a rite of passage, fertility, protection, spirituality, commitment, and status has existed since the Neolithic. The mummified Otzi the Iceman from the 4th or 5th millennium BCE 57 was covered with dots and lines across his lower body. In 2008, the modern tattoo parlor is more [...]
Getting A Tattoo to Celebrate Obama’s victory
MORENO VALLEY – Terry Whitaker celebrated Barack Obama’s historic election by getting a tattoo of the soon-to-be president on his arm.
The tattoo of Obama’s profile in front of the White House will serve as a permanent symbol of hope and change, he said, not just for the country but also for [...]
