I’m in Texas. I know of two 12 yr olds that got tattoos over the summer. (Both crosses on their shoulders.) The work was done by the father of one of them. These kids play football with my son and came to show them off immediately after. Apparently it’s pretty common around here for the kids of gang members to get them to prove how “grown up” they are.
I went to school with a set of identical twins who’s parents did something similiar. One was circumsized, the other left intact. By the time I met them in elementary school their parents didn’t have any problem telling them apart with their pants on.
Of course it matters which one has which name, if you want to ensure that Bill knows he’s Bill and Dave know’s he’s Dave.
My stepchildren both got tattoos at age sixteen. Their mother signed a consent form, and I believe they were accompanied by their stepdad.
Yeah, it used to be that a regulation on the minimum age to join the navy was enough to keep children from getting tattoos.
That’s the most seriously fucked up thing I have heard.
That’s a super cool experiment. Have kids, tattoo them with a grid all over their bodies and measure that grid through time.
Is there another way to reach the results for this?
Er…why?
Usually messing with people’s genitalia is the kind of stuff that has repercussions later on in life. I can see them reaching puberty, where their potential sexual targets have opinions on circumcision and then wondering why their brother has one thing and they something else.
I would have no problem with my kids either being circumcised or not (my boy isn’t), but I cannot see having one kid one way and one the other. Twins or not.
I’m with Sapo - I personally am pro-circumcision, but it is a controversial medical procedure. It seems a little overly flip to have two kids and say “Child A, congratulations, you get to keep all of what you were born with. Child B, tough luck”. I mean, did they do eenie-meanie-minee-mo to decide which one got cut?
Not to mention identifying them by their genitals.
What’s weird about identifying them by their genitals if they’re just babies, though? It’s not like their genitals are summing up “who they are.”
I dunno, I guess if you’re just not the kind of person who cares about circumcision in general, though, couldn’t you maybe see why it doesn’t seem like a big deal? Like for me, I really don’t care either way, so I wouldn’t really mind if one kid had his foreskin and the other didn’t.
Not to be flip, but fine – they’re not your kids.
In the end. Yes, you are right.
Ah, I see. I asked because my nephew wears one that states he is a liver transplant patient, is immuno-suppressed, has hypertension, and lists the phone # for his transplant team. Maybe the older he gets, the less the phone # will be needed (he is 1 year old, had his transplant when he was 6 months old).
Anyway, didn’t you read the post? No later than middle school, the parents should be able to tell them apart, by which time the other boy can get circumcised too. Everybody wins!