Mum shares photo of her baby’s ‘pierced’ cheek and people have a LOT to say

There's an important message behind this...

A mum posted a photo of her baby daughter with a pierced dimple on her Facebook page and the image provoked outrage. Enedina Vance posted the photo because she was fed up. She was sick of people not listening to her. So she found an image of her daughter on her phone and photoshopped the piercing to make a point. In the post, which you can see below, Enedina wrote:

"I'm the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want! I make all of her decisions until she's 18, I made her, I own her!! I don't need anyone's permission, I think it's better, cuter, & I prefer her to have her dimple pierced."

https://www.facebook.com/LatNbtrfly/posts/10211506240844814 Enedina posted the photo in June last year. It went viral at the time and has recently been making the rounds again so we thought HerFamily mums might be interested in it. The post has been shared over 15,000 times and attracted over 500 comments. As you can imagine, most of those comments were not nice. One woman said Enedina was an “abusive and an unfit mother”. Another told her to “get hit by a car”. The message behind the photo, which was entirely fake and a Photoshop exercise, was lost on many people though, and that message was that parents shouldn’t be altering their children's bodies. Enedina has strong feelings about circumcision. When she fell pregnant in the late 90’s she did a lot of research on it. She spoke to CNN:

"It felt so outdated, so primitive." “We as a civilized society should have grown past this and (I) was shocked that cutting my infant's genitals was even an option."

By posting the image of her child's fake 'piercing' Enedina wanted to make a point. She believes children should have the choice when it comes to circumcision just as they should have the choice when it comes to piercings. A lot of parents choose to circumcise their children for health, hygienic or religious reasons. Enedina argues that children should decide when to alter their own bodies themselves when they are old enough to do so.