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A-Z Masters
719-296-1000
523 N. Santa Fe
Pueblo, CO 81003
A-Z Masters 2
719-579-0220
2053 B Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
They are getting younger...
Myrna L. Armstrong, Ed.D, R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor of Nursing at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has researched and written on tattooing in adolescents. Her research and articles studied the prevalence of tattooing with two different surveys conducted in urban high schools in 1993 and 1995. These surveys revealed an increasing number of adolescents engaging in tattooing at a younger age.
A 1993 study of 642 adolescents from six suburban high schools in Texas revealed 8.6% had a tattoo with the youngest being 11 years old when the tattoo was obtained. The majority of the students with tattoos reported academic grades of As and Bs.
Two years later the study was repeated in eight high schools across the United States to document a nationwide perspective with 1,762 students responding. The proportion of adolescents with a tattoo was higher at 9% with the youngest being only 8 years old at the time the tattoo was obtained. Again, more than half of the students with tattoos reported grades of As and Bs.
The average age of first tattoo dropped from 16 years in the 1993 study to 14.5 years. In 1995, 55% of the adolescents expressed an interest in tattooing compared to 33% in the 1993 study.