When my daugh­ter was 2 years old I found her attempt­ing to draw flow­ers on her leg with a magic marker. I laughed out­loud at her obvi­ous mim­icry, for I had flow­ers tat­toed on my leg. Dur­ing her entire child­hood and ado­les­cence, she has watched her mom get more tat­tooed on all four limbs. When Rose became a teenager, she began ask­ing when could she get a tat­too? I had no trou­ble with this ques­tion, explain­ing to her that in the state of Ore­gon, you have to be 18 years old to legally get a tat­too from a licensed tat­too artist. … Keep read­ing …