Thread: Circumcision - Should it be the parent's choice?

Well I am on both sides I guess. I'm circumcised and both my sons are also circumsised as it is our religious practice which we call tahara there are many other words too and it basically means purification. Being a father who has had two sons who have gone through this procedure, the cleaning aspect of it wasn't really a problem when we first brought them home. We just had to be gentle until it healed and made sure their penises were clean before we closed the diaper up. Now if you're a parent who was going to let your child sit in a dirty diaper for about three plus hours after they went through circumcision than yeah of course your kids going to get an infection. I've been told it's my terrorist ignorance that has led me to do such heinous acts upon my children, words of some Islamic haters. But it has much more deeper meaning for us. It's apart of our child's purification, when a son is born the father whispers the call to prayer in the right ear of the child. Then our baby must taste something sweet, date juice or something similar. We then slaughter two sheep or goats if it's a boy and then one if it's a girl. On our baby's seventh day of life we name it, and after this if the child is male we circumcise him. Although for our children they were circumcised at the hospital a few days after they were born, then there is a bit more but it all plays a role in our child's blessing. It's just a step to our God. Who already loved them before hand but now that love is stronger because of the steps we took as parents. For some people yes I know your going to call bullshit but that's my and my wife's religious practice. Many people believe it should be their child's choice and maybe it should but I know for a fact that being circumcised at an all older age is probably worse then doing it when you're younger. My good friend converted and he decided he wanted to go through with it, he made several jokes that he wished his mother would of did this 32 years ago. All depends on the person mind you. But it's hard to know if your kid will grow up to want to be circumcised or not. So we definitely didn't choose to do it because it looked nicer for me that's a little selfish. It looks nicer......ok then. People think they are put to sleep through this but because it is such a minimal procedure they don't unless they absolutely have to. I'm circumcised of course and yeah my penis is good and sensitive as it is, anymore and that shit would be unpleasant . Some people make it out to seem that men with cut penises have no feeling in them XD I got that from my wife's very southern mom. Who thinks I'm a bombshell on wheels that stole and manipulated their daughter. Haha anywho So I'm not going to scold parents or make anyone feel horrible about getting their kid circumcised and I'm not going to do that to people who didn't or aren't circumcised because really it's none of my buisness I guess. For me it was a spiritual and personal matter and because my wife was not practicing Islam when we first met and married, when she first got pregnant and we found out we were having a boy I made sure if she wanted it or not. So it wasn't all my choice I made sure my wife had a say, as it is her kid too and she has the right if not more to decide for our son. My wife did convert and we did go through with it together. As for the family and their 4 boys next door. I don't care. None of my business. My wife is due to have our baby this December and we were told that it was a boy and yes he was going to be circumcised, then soon found out that oops it's a girl.long story. But if we did have another son yes, and many people are going to be like you dumb idiot. But like I said none of my business how you run and live your life and family so I don't think it's any of yours how me and other people live theirs. As long as you're not someone who's going to look down and Criticize people even though you don't agree with it then that's fine I respect that. It's the people like my wife's family that drive me up the wall. It's basically like the whole problem surrounding abortion I believe. Your going to have people who hate it and think it's horrible, people who just don't care it's none of their business, and people who think it's fine and should be legal. It's always going to be like that. People have talked about banning circumcision and personally that would just be a bad idea. You don't want people doing that shit themselves. So it's better to educate and have it as an option in the end. So yeah that's my thoughts on it, i was a little hesitant to post as many people are not for it and I'm not one to really get into fights on here, or have people dislike me for my religious practice. But for me, you do you. I asked my wife about it and she is in the same boat. If we weren't religious I'm not too sure if our sons would be or not, but we are so shrugs haha I'm going stop rambling.