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- From: petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire)
- Subject: Re: Circum.: When Parents Disagree : -(
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:38:11 GMT
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- daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
-
- >In <C14J4p.D8K@tsoft.net> casper@tsoft.net (Johanne Kaminski) writes:
-
-
- >>take a perfectly healthy and beautiful baby boy and have a healthy part
- >>of that child's body chopped off!
-
- >term and the correct description of the procedure. It lowers the chance
- >of penile cancer and is a basically painless procedure.
-
- Please show me the data. And the pain or painless, so what.
-
- > Later in life the
- >emotional repercussions and pain of circumcision are much greater and
- >some uncircumcised me[n] are forced to undergo the prcedure due to recurring
- >urinary tract infections.
-
- Again the data please. Please show me some data from Europe or Canada.
-
- >>We are guardians and caretakers of our children, but we do not own them nor
- >>their bodies. I don't see where anyone has the right to take the healthy
- >>body of a child and mutilate it without that child's informed concent.
- >>It is your child's penis, and not the husband's penis to do what he feels
- >>like doing.
-
- >This is your opinion, actually the fact that the child has no idea what is
- >happening at all makes circumsision possible.
-
- What do you base this on. Most nural's will now disagree.
-
- There is no way I would subject
- >my son to the procedure if he had any awareness of his surroundings. The
- >procedure occurs during the first week of the childs life.
-
- See above.
-
- >If you really believe the 2 day old baby can give informed consent i must
- >admit this is a new concept to me.
-
- No he can't, good reason not to do it.
-
- >I have a hard time taking this seriously, but as a circumcised male I don't
- >even have a glimmer of feeling about having my foreskin removed. For some
- >reason I sense you are trying to find something that might not exist.
-
- Or could.
-
- >As the guardian of my childs emotional well being I felt he would be best
- >served by being just like the other little boys and his dad. Kids normally
- >don't want to be different, they want to fit in and be like the other kids,
- >and most boys in america are circumcised. If you ever watched a circumcision you
- >would know it is a 20 minute procedure during which the baby might cry simply
- >because he is being restrained.
-
- Or scream his guts out. I've seen it.
-
- >There are truely some things about being a women a man can never understand.
- >And there are truely some things about being a man that a women can never understand
- >I would say that one of these things is how a man feels about his penis.
-
- How about leave the kid alone and when he is 12 or 13 ask him.
-
- >I assume you will not have your son's wisdom teeth removed if they become
- >impacted?
-
- Or 'might be' mine are no, I still have them.
-
- >>A circumcised father might say, "IF it was good enough for me, it's good
- >>enough for my son" (yes, but which would truly be BETTER for his son), or
- >>"I don't need or miss my foreskin" (ah yes, but he was never really given a
- >>chance to see whether he would have preferred to be left intact), but those
- >>are not good enough reasons to take away from the son what was taken away
- >>from the father.
-
- >Actually my thinking was more like, I want my son to be just like me so he
- >will feel more secure in this world. And I plan to set a good example for him
- >in every other way.
-
-
- Or is it you do not feel secure. Come on, I was not cir'ed, kids would
- say things to me, but I just felt that I was lucky I still had something
- they didn't. I remember at summer camp saying that to one kid. That
- shut him up. Screwed up the rest of his summer !!!
-
- >>Have any of these circumcised father who want their little boys to be
- >>"just like them" talked to fathers and sons who were not the same in this
- >>matter (ie, one is uncircumcised, the other is not). If they did I
- >>would presume that they would find it was neither a problem, nor a big deal.
-
- >Your right there, it isn't a big deal, either way.
-
- So why not let the kid decide ?
-
- -pete
- Pete Lancashire
- petel@sequent.com
-