Anonymous @ 11:13 PM wrote: "and should be against the law."
Several countries have approached this. There have been restraints enacted in South Africa. The Australian Medical Association in concert with The Children's Commissioner has sponsored legislation in that country. Courts in Germany and Finland have rendered judgments putting limits on it. Vietnam has outlawed it and The Oregon Supreme Court stopped the circumcision of a 9 year old boy where the father wanted him circumcised and the mother didn't. It gave the decision to the boy and the circumcision was never performed.
Much as Sweden was the first to ban female circumcision and most of the world's developed nations followed suit in the next twenty years, some country will ban minor male circumcision and the other nations will eventually follow their lead.
In just the last 20 years, the circumcision rate has fallen by almost half. When these boys reach maturity and start forming their own families, it is highly unlikely they will circumcise their sons. With those that are seeing the truth, the circumcision rate will plummet. Evidence of this has been seen in Canada that once had a 57% circumcision rate. As a result of better informed parents and physicians, the circumcision rate had dropped to 17% by 2002 when Ryleigh McWillis died as a result of his circumcision. This was the wake up call to both parents and physicians and in the next two years, the circumcision rate dropped to 6%. In some (most) areas of Canada it is very difficult to find a physician who will circumcise a newborn these days.
The medical profession has always been the driving force behind this cultural practice. An early 1980's study performed at a military hospital in Hawaii to quantify the effect of parents getting correct and accurate information about infant circumcision. At the begining of the study, the infant circumcision rate was 80%+. The circumcision rate immediately dropped to 20% and remained at this level throughout the study and only grew slowly after the study. This tells us that parents want to do what is best for their children and will mostly take that information to make the decisions. It also tells us that their physican can be the most influential factor in making that decision and that these physicans are giving them either no information, useless information or wrongful information.
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Anonymous @ 11:13 PM wrote: "and should be against the law."
Several countries have approached this. There have been restraints enacted in South Africa. The Australian Medical Association in concert with The Children's Commissioner has sponsored legislation in that country. Courts in Germany and Finland have rendered judgments putting limits on it. Vietnam has outlawed it and The Oregon Supreme Court stopped the circumcision of a 9 year old boy where the father wanted him circumcised and the mother didn't. It gave the decision to the boy and the circumcision was never performed.
Much as Sweden was the first to ban female circumcision and most of the world's developed nations followed suit in the next twenty years, some country will ban minor male circumcision and the other nations will eventually follow their lead.
In just the last 20 years, the circumcision rate has fallen by almost half. When these boys reach maturity and start forming their own families, it is highly unlikely they will circumcise their sons. With those that are seeing the truth, the circumcision rate will plummet. Evidence of this has been seen in Canada that once had a 57% circumcision rate. As a result of better informed parents and physicians, the circumcision rate had dropped to 17% by 2002 when Ryleigh McWillis died as a result of his circumcision. This was the wake up call to both parents and physicians and in the next two years, the circumcision rate dropped to 6%. In some (most) areas of Canada it is very difficult to find a physician who will circumcise a newborn these days.
The medical profession has always been the driving force behind this cultural practice. An early 1980's study performed at a military hospital in Hawaii to quantify the effect of parents getting correct and accurate information about infant circumcision. At the begining of the study, the infant circumcision rate was 80%+. The circumcision rate immediately dropped to 20% and remained at this level throughout the study and only grew slowly after the study. This tells us that parents want to do what is best for their children and will mostly take that information to make the decisions. It also tells us that their physican can be the most influential factor in making that decision and that these physicans are giving them either no information, useless information or wrongful information.
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February 6, 2010 - 8:33amThis Comment
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