RE: Another Circumcision thread
October 7, 2016 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2016 at 4:56 pm by Aroura.)
interestingly, circumcision in the west US, where I'm from, is less than half now, stats say only 33% in 2002. So maybe my resistance to it is locally cultural.
Plus that AAP does not recommend it unless there is medical need, which is very rare. I will trust the American Academy of Pediatrics over random individual docs. As a matter of fact, I cannot find a single medical organization in the entire world, including WHO, NIC, and British and Canadian Pediatrics, that recommend it as a routine procedure. It is always listed as a choice parents can make for religiosity or cultural reasons....not for routine medical ones. The majority of the world does not circumcise (about 70%) and the majority of circumcised men on the planet are Muslim (about 65%). Just some interesting facts I turned up while reading about it.
We discussed it when I was pregnant, in case we had a boy, but ours turned out a girl, so I didn't have to have that fight with my husband. Ironically, he agrees it is wrong to pierce a baby girls ears, we never subjected our daughter to that. Even braces only when medically necessary, not for looks. She can make appearance choices for herself when she is older.
I don't think we need to get nasty with each other over it, that is never helpful.
Plus that AAP does not recommend it unless there is medical need, which is very rare. I will trust the American Academy of Pediatrics over random individual docs. As a matter of fact, I cannot find a single medical organization in the entire world, including WHO, NIC, and British and Canadian Pediatrics, that recommend it as a routine procedure. It is always listed as a choice parents can make for religiosity or cultural reasons....not for routine medical ones. The majority of the world does not circumcise (about 70%) and the majority of circumcised men on the planet are Muslim (about 65%). Just some interesting facts I turned up while reading about it.
We discussed it when I was pregnant, in case we had a boy, but ours turned out a girl, so I didn't have to have that fight with my husband. Ironically, he agrees it is wrong to pierce a baby girls ears, we never subjected our daughter to that. Even braces only when medically necessary, not for looks. She can make appearance choices for herself when she is older.
I don't think we need to get nasty with each other over it, that is never helpful.
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