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DEAR MARY ANN: What is it with parents today that so many of them decide to have their infant daughter's, and even infant son's, ears pierced? To my thinking, this is borderline child abuse. The child certainly has no input in the decision.
Why not get the baby some really cool tattoos as well? Who do these parents think they're impressing?
If a child upon maturing to the point of having cognitive faculties decides he or she would like to have his or her ears pierced and seeks the parents' permission to do so, that's one thing. But with ear-pierced infants, these parents take away the child's opportunity to ever have such a choice. Who knows, maybe some of these ear pierced infants when old enough to think might have decided to reject the trend and go through childhood without pierced ears. Am I missing something here?
-- LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE
DEAR LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE: Piercing an infant's ears...