Should you let your child get a tattoo? Maybe not. But should the state arrest you just because you do? Definitely not. And yet that's exactly what's happening in New York state and elsewhere.
In Highland, New York, Crystal Thomas was arrested after giving her 10-year-old son permission to get his name tattooed on his arm. In New York, it's illegal for anyone to mark "the body of a child less than eighteen years old with indelible ink or pigments by means of tattooing." And parents who allow it can—like Thomas—be charged with child endangerment.
