How young is too young to relax or perm a child’s hair?

Off a recent thread where the subject of ”Good hair” came up, and the Chris Rock documentary Good hair. It made me wonder off this clip how young is too young to get relaxed and permed? Having worked in a salon I know that stuff is no joke. It is caustic and even with the best prep, chemical burns and irritation still occurs sometimes. I would also suspect the products used by African American women are stronger because the cellular structure is more robust than Caucasian hair. Caucasian hair wise brunettes are more robust than blondes with redheads in the middle somewhere. It seems near half of the mothers in the clip relaxed their girl’s hair to make it easy for them, more so than for the girl’s. Is that ignorance on how to style, and care for African American hair, or just laziness? Is the kiddie perm bandwagon just mothers of Black girls or do mothers of other nationalities do it to make hair care easier?

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