Ah, Macallan's mad at me because I asked him a simple question...
Look, personally, I don't like tattooes. I would not get one, I am repulsed by permenant body markings--but that's me. If I had a child and he or she had to have one, I probably let them have a temporary one and they would have to pay for it. If they utterly desired having a permenant one, then once they didn't live in my house and did not consume any of my money, then they can do whatever they wanted to their body.
Does that make them trashy and unkempt? To judgemental folks... To others, like the Pacific Islanders it is one of royalty... So, who am I to judge? I just would not want my CHILD to regret an ill-informed decision. As an adult, making ADULT DECISIONS, he or she would have to live with the repercussions of his or her decisions...