Common issue

A common issue from the novel & in the real world would be peer pressure. Everybody is pressured some way at one point in their life. Kayla is being pressured into getting this tattoo. She understands something is wrong with it yet government made it mandatory to have the tattoo if your seventeen or older. People now-a-days are pressured into everything. A lot of teenagers face this issue. Being pressured into sex maybe drugs, etc. You just have to have enough will-power to resist.