Catchy title, eh?
Our daughter is turning 1 year old next week and she has been such a joy in our lives that we are planning out our next child. The subject of circumcision came up when we were discussing aspects of raising a boy, were we to have one next.
Here in Europe, this procedure is not commonly performed. Usually only certain religious groups have it done. But in the U.S. this is still much more common.
I was born in 1971, which according to Wikipedia, was the high point of circumcisions in the U.S. with a rate of around 90% of all males born. Everyone I new growing up was as well. When I was a kid and saw those naked African kids on National Geographic, I assumed they had some kind of deformed penis, but alas, they were just uncircumcised. Turns out perhaps I was the deformed one.
I've read about the medical reasons for and against on the internet and that most medical groups these days don't recommend it as routine.
Still though, I wouldn't mind hearing a little first hand information from some people who have had to make this decision themselves, either recently or in the past. What did you choose and why? Also, I'd like to ask the doctors on the forum what trends they may be aware of in the real world. Are doctors refusing this at all or staying relatively neutral on the matter?
Our daughter is turning 1 year old next week and she has been such a joy in our lives that we are planning out our next child. The subject of circumcision came up when we were discussing aspects of raising a boy, were we to have one next.
Here in Europe, this procedure is not commonly performed. Usually only certain religious groups have it done. But in the U.S. this is still much more common.
I was born in 1971, which according to Wikipedia, was the high point of circumcisions in the U.S. with a rate of around 90% of all males born. Everyone I new growing up was as well. When I was a kid and saw those naked African kids on National Geographic, I assumed they had some kind of deformed penis, but alas, they were just uncircumcised. Turns out perhaps I was the deformed one.
I've read about the medical reasons for and against on the internet and that most medical groups these days don't recommend it as routine.
Still though, I wouldn't mind hearing a little first hand information from some people who have had to make this decision themselves, either recently or in the past. What did you choose and why? Also, I'd like to ask the doctors on the forum what trends they may be aware of in the real world. Are doctors refusing this at all or staying relatively neutral on the matter?
![:-\](https://www.early-retirement.org/sk/forums/images/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
