@Hoppinggreen absolutely. @Miakaceysmummy22 might want to avoid all the “judgement” but she has had a potentially disfiguring and painful procedure performed on a child who can’t give meaningful consent, who now has an infection, and she thinks it’s fine to bury her head in the sand to avoid judgement.
All the arguments people make in these circumstances are nonsense-
She really wanted it -So what, my 6 year old really wants me to make him wings so he can fly.
She knows it’ll be painful- No she doesn’t, 6 year olds rarely understand the scope and range of pain
She knows she’ll need to take care of them -Again, no she doesn’t, not really. You wouldn’t get a dog on the basis that a 6 year understood they’d need to take care of it, would you?
My daughter requires a minor surgery for a tiny lesion which is high risk for cancer in adulthood. The procedure is very minor and will take place in a sterile hospital theatre. It is, overall, lower risk than a piercing given where it’ll be happening, and that it will be a small wound designed to heal (not kept open). The plastic surgeons still wish to wait until she can give clear informed consent, which may be when she is 12-14, not 6.