The protection of minors is no trivial matter! Various localities have successively carried out special actions for minors' personal governance
The skin is our body's natural barrier and the first line of defense against external stimuli, and tattoos reduce skin resistance.
What is even more worrying is that the tattoo dyes used by some stores contain heavy metals, and the needles used are "three-no" products of unknown origin, which are more likely to cause skin infections.
In recent years, tattoos have been trending towards younger age. Some minors feel curious and cool, and get tattoos on impulse, but they do not expect it to be painful.
Gradually younger merchants do not check relevant age certificates for tattoos
In a tattoo shop in Beijing, the reporter saw that the staff were tattooing a girl.
Tattoos, also known as tattoos, are the use of colored needles to pierce the underlying skin to create permanent patterns or patterns on the skin.
Because tattooing is traumatic to the skin, the pain is often very intense for the tattooed person.
The girl revealed that this is her second tattoo, the first tattoo is only 16 years old.
The girl is still a student and claims to be 19 years old this year.
However, the tattoo shop did not check the ID card or student ID card, and we have no way of knowing her real age.
Because minors under the age of 18 do not yet have full civil capacity, the person in charge of the tattoo shop is worried about being reported and complained by the minor's family. Before getting a tattoo, the tattooer is generally required to verbally promise to be at least 18 years old, but the relevant age certificate has not been checked. .
In other words, as long as the tattooed person claims to be over 18 years old, he can get a tattoo.
In the past three months, the reporter investigated nearly 10 tattoo shops in Beijing and found that these tattoo shops have no strict age limit for minors.
The student claimed to be 18 years old and already in his third year of high school.
Because the tattoo shop did not check the student's relevant identity certificate from beginning to end, the reporter could not verify his real age.
Some minors think that tattoos are very personal, cool and fun, so they choose tattoos on a whim.
No place of origin, factory name, part of the tattoo shop, the origin of dye needles is unknown
At present, tattooing mainly uses a motor to pierce an ink-filled needle into the skin with a high-frequency needle, leaving patterns and colors.
However, the reporter found in the investigation that the origin of the needles used in some tattoo shops is unknown.
Although the outer packaging of dyes has English labels, the factory name and origin are not marked.
According to the "Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China", imported products must have Chinese labels.
These dyes have neither the name of the factory nor the place of origin, so there are certain safety hazards.
According to experts, the use of needles from unknown sources for tattoos is not only easy to cause skin infections, but also easy to lead to the occurrence of infectious diseases.
At the same time, some inferior tattoo dyes contain heavy metals, which have a long-term risk of cancer in the skin.
Minors have immature immune systems and are more vulnerable.
Zhang Yankun, deputy chief physician of the Department of Dermatology of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital:
Because in the process of tattooing, it will have acupuncture step. If the needle is not well disinfected, it may be an infectious disease.
For example, infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and HIV can be transmitted through tattoos.
In the process of tattooing, dyes will be put into the skin. This dye may cause allergic reactions to the skin. In fact, some of these dyes are mixed with good and bad ingredients, and some bad dyes contain some heavy metals. This heavy metal is in Long-term presence on the skin may cause more severe irritation, possibly with a risk of cancer.
The price of cleaning tattoos is higher, and the removal process is painful
The reporter also found in the investigation that minors often regret after tattooing because of their immaturity.
At the same time, when working as adults, some units require employees not to have tattoos, and they can only choose to remove the tattoos.
Many shops engaged in tattooing and cleaning tattoos have not obtained a medical institution license.
At present, there are no relevant national standards and industry norms for tattoos in my country, and there are regulatory gaps.
At the same time, the practitioners are also very complex, and the business premises are open to all personnel, including minors.
In the interview, the reporter learned that some tattoo agencies claim that tattoos can be easily removed in order to induce minors to tattoo.
However, tattooing is an invasive behavior, it is difficult to completely remove, and at the same time, it will leave more obvious scars.
Tattoos generally cost several hundred to several thousand dollars, while the price of tattoo removal requires thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.
If the tattoo area is relatively large, it may even cost hundreds of thousands of yuan to remove, which is expensive.
The laser removal method commonly used in regular hospitals requires a total of 4-5 times of removal, with an interval of 3 months for each time, and the overall removal cycle is more than 1 year.
There is obvious pain during the removal process, and the degree of pain is also unimaginable for minors.
Zhang Yankun, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Dermatology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital:
He may have a tattoo who will tell him that it will be fine in the future, and you can wash it off if you don’t want it, but in fact, once he wants to wash it off, it is sometimes difficult, and he is doing tattoos. The process is also quite painful.
It is equivalent to grinding or cutting off the skin of the tattooed part, which is a relatively painful process itself.
This girl came to the tattoo shop to clean the tattoos because the work unit prohibited employees from tattooing.
The girl revealed that fortunately, the area of her tattoo was very small, only a small piece on the back of her hand.
But even such a small pattern needs to be cleaned many times, and it is impossible to completely remove it.
The girl introduced that she only spent about 100 yuan for the tattoo at the beginning, but now it costs at least 600 yuan to clean the tattoo.
According to the "Catalogue of Hierarchical Management of Medical Beauty Projects", cleaning and tattooing is a medical beauty project. To carry out the cleaning and tattooing business, it is necessary to obtain a medical institution practice license and other relevant qualifications.
However, the reporter found in the investigation that some tattoo shops only have business licenses for beauty and hairdressing, and there is no tattoo item at all, let alone a medical institution license, but they are also engaged in tattooing and tattoo cleaning and other items.
Tattoo shop staff:
Any tattoo shop does not have a formal tattoo business license, because the tattoo industry belongs to a profession drifting in the middle, and no department can control tattoos, because the country does not support you nor agree with you.
The reporter's investigation found that these so-called tattoo shops are actually beauty salons, which also carry out tattooing and tattoo cleaning projects, and beauty salons are also so-called tattooists.
Strengthen supervision to minors and will be held accountable
The reporter learned from the investigation that, in addition to Beijing, there are also minors' personalities in various parts of the country.
Experts believe that minors' personalities may lead to the dual effect of emulation and exclusion.
It has a huge impact on the physical and mental health of minors.
Families, schools and society must strengthen the education and guidance of minors, so that minors consciously and rationally refuse tattoos.
The imitation effect is manifested in the immature minds of minors and the pursuit of individuality, and the tattooing behavior will be learned and imitated within the group.
The exclusion effect is reflected in the fact that minors are easily labelled in social interactions, and are easily rejected by mainstream groups in the process of growing up.
Song Yinghui, director of the Juvenile Justice Special Committee of the China Society for Criminal Procedure Law:
Because there is adolescence in the growth process of minors, adolescence itself is more rebellious. During this rebellious process, if family guardianship is absent or improper family guardianship, he may go outside to find some It's easy to get a tattoo if you think you like doing something or something cool.
Adult tattoo is a choice of personality and aesthetics, which belongs to personal freedom.
However, for minors who restrict civil behavior, tattoos have certain safety hazards to their healthy growth, and at the same time, they may have adverse effects on school and employment.
Experts believe that tattoos have a huge impact on the physical and mental health of minors.
Earlier this month, the Office of the Leading Group for the Protection of Minors under the State Council issued the "Measures for the Administration of Minors' Tattoos", which stipulates that no enterprise, organization or individual shall provide tattoo services to minors, and shall not coerce, induce or instigate minors to have tattoos. .
Anyone who provides tattoo services to minors without authorization will be investigated for legal responsibility according to law.
The healthy growth of minors is not only closely related to individuals and families, but also to national interests and social public interests.
Yuan Ningning, deputy director of the Juvenile Affairs Governance and Legal Research Base of China University of Political Science and Law:
Any organization or individual should consider whether it is suitable for children when dealing with minors in the process of contacting minors. Interests, when a tattoo shop receives a consumer like a child, he has to consider one thing. Is this product and service in the interest of the child?
I guess the answer is self-explanatory.
According to experts, the protection of minors is no trivial matter, and families, schools and society must strengthen the education and guidance of minors, so that minors consciously and rationally refuse tattoos.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of tattoo institutions.
At present, various localities have successively launched special campaigns for the treatment of minors' tattoos, prohibiting any organization or individual from providing tattoo services to minors, and effectively protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors.