Shopping for back-to-school “basics” used to mean T-shirts, jeans, socks, and some notebooks. Now, many parents have a new item to add to the list:

tattoos.

About 45 percent of parents polled say that hair highlights, teeth whitening, and even tattoos are among the items they will buy their kids to go back to school.201 What (if any) age is appropriate for kids to get these grownup additions?

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