Child body piercing - how young is too young?

Child body piercing - how young is too young?

It's becoming more and more common for children to have body piercings - from ears to bellybuttons.

Have you let your child have any part of their body pierced? How young is too young for children to have "body art"?

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    Karen from Melksham says:
    Jan 26, 15:51

    lt's common practice in Asian countries.....used to see children barely toddling with earrings. They look upon it like docking a dogs' tail....the sooner and younger it is done, the quicker they forget the pain.
    First had my ears pierced for my 13th birthday, the 2nd time l was in my early 20s......hurt like hell both times but it's over so quickly.

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    Anna from Stevenage says:
    Nov 11, 17:54

    What! Body pearcing a young child! only ignorant and"low-lives" are capable of anything so diabolic! What about infection!

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    Karl from home says:
    Nov 11, 09:55

    Billy, I was born with holes in my ears,they are called earholes!!

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    Billy from Deptford says:
    Nov 10, 21:34

    Don't believe in piercing, if you were meant to have holes in your ears you would have been born with holes in your ears, or any where else for that matter. Same as tatoos, they are horrible, and usually when people get older they regret it, can you imagining an old lady in her 70's, 80's with tattoos, how horrible.

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    me from here says:
    Nov 9, 09:17

    jolly roger, enflick eh?? is that the brother of Herr Flick by any chance?

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