double standard thinking

[hummingbear]

Last night my husband told me his Dad was intact! Wow, how could I have ever known. Maybe that is why he was all for keeping our son intact.

But that led me to thinking .... you know that arguement "I don't want my son to feel odd that he is different than his Dad." Where exactly did that arguement fit in when circumcision was done on a boy whose father was intact?

Ann

[Oh the Irony]

Maybe it was part of the "if it is medical it must be better" mode. That mentality that if a doctor suggests it then we need to do it.

My mother and her 10 brothers and sisters were all born at home. She cannot understand me doing a homebirth and not having access to MEDICINE.

[ared1]

Also, not all mothers were asked. My husband and his brother were both circumcised without parental consent. It was just a given in certain parts of the country and certain eras. My DH is 26. His Dad was just fine with my son not being circd but it did bother his mother. After talking with her and showing her the Fleiss article she now understands a little better. I am sure she would still have circd but she is truly upset that she was never given any options or information. She said they just handed her the babies and it was already done.

[MelissaEvans]

But that led me to thinking .... you know that arguement "I don't want my son to feel odd that he is different than his Dad." Where exactly did that arguement fit in when circumcision was done on a boy whose father was intact?

They keep changing the "reasons" to circ. At first it was to deter masturbation, then they found that wasn't true (or necessary). Then it was to prevent UTI's, then they found that wasn't true. Then it was cancer, and then there was another study proving that was wrong. Then ... well, you get the point. It's an odd situation, they like cutting boys so it gets done; then they try to rationalize it later. I was going to say the "only" situation like that, but the more I read about the OB world, I think it's full of this (i.e. EFM seems like a good idea... until someone does a study; episiotomy seems like a good idea... until they actually reseearch it; IV's, shaving, enemas... the same thing. What the heck is up with OB's?!? Off topic, are other fields of medicine the same way?).

So "looking like dad" didn't work in the beginning, but it's been a "great" took to propetuate the situation.