Is tattoo necessary?

You ruined my daughter's future for 300 yuan! According to media reports, recently, a 14-year-old girl in Liaoning Province took 300 yuan to get a lot of tattoos in a tattoo shop behind her back. The girl's mother is very sad. She took her daughter to Shanghai to get a tattoo, which took about 2 years and cost nearly 30 thousand yuan.

The first thing to emphasize is that tattoos are not a scourge. It is understandable that adults regard tattoos as a way to express their personality. But for minors, it is another matter. From a health point of view, medical experts have long pointed out that "tattoos destroy the first barrier of the body, and the most common is infection, and even poisoning is life-threatening." More importantly, the thinking concept of minors is not yet mature, and the planning for the future is still unclear. Tattooing too early will hinder their later life. For example, in China, there are clear restrictions on joining the army, the police and the recruitment of civil servants. For this reason, some people in the tattoo industry said that although there is no explicit provision in the tattoo industry, most professional tattoo artists will follow the principle of "not tattooing minors" by default.

According to the classification of residents' consumption expenditure by the National Bureau of Statistics, tattoos should be included in beauty salons. However, according to the Hygienic Standard for Beauty Salons issued by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Commerce, tattoos do not belong to life beauty because of their invasive characteristics. It is precisely because of the current lack of supervision over the qualifications and practice norms of tattoo workers that the tattoo market is in chaos and individual businesses blindly seek profits. Even in the face of the tattoo requirements of minors, they will "turn a blind eye." Looking through the past news, it is not difficult to find that the dispute caused by tattoos of minors without the consent of their guardians is not a case.

Obviously, the prevention of minor tattoos can not only rely on the self-moral constraints of tattoo artists, but also need the strength of industry norms and relevant laws and regulations.

It is gratifying that not long ago, a public interest litigation case publicly pronounced in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province clearly stated that according to the newly revised Law on the Protection of Minors, tattoo institutions provided tattoo services to minors, which violated their right to health, development and participation. We hope that relevant departments can take this opportunity, on the one hand, strengthen the management of tattoo industry and introduce relevant industry standards; On the other hand, it is necessary to improve the legal norms or judicial interpretations on tattoo of minors as soon as possible, make clear restrictions on the age of tattoo, and better put on the "coat of rule of law" for our children.