In the coming wave of “my body my rights” be sure to wonder aloud to these same people about the terrible thing baby boys are subjected to at birth in this country.
If you are concerned about tortured children being harvested and parts of evil rituals, be sure to set your heart against the routine genital mutilation of infants too.
If you’re talking about circumcision I’ve had this conversation with the male members of my family and they all support it. My sister married a Hispanic man whose family didn’t practice it and her brother in law had to get one at the age of 22 because of infection and said it was horrific. I’ve heard that from many. My brother just said the other day he argued with a woman about it and she told her she was crazy and that he wouldn’t change it and risk having it done older. Not a man so I can’t say for myself but my husband is pro circumcising and all our boys are. Knowing how terrible they are with hygiene I’m guessing they are probably better off but again not a man.
Circumcision is barbaric. Period. It causes problems spiritually, physically and emotionally.
They have this new thing called soap, much more effective.
Completely entitled to your opinion, all the men in my family support it and as I come from a family of almost all women as a kid and then marrying into a family with almost all brothers…I had 5 sisters dad died when I was young, raised by all women for the most part I take the experiences and advice of my husband and respect it. All the men in my family are wonderful spiritually, physically and emotionally. Can’t say the same for the women in my family though there isn’t anything I have seen to get me to agree with you. Also I wanted to add, I was almost late getting my special needs son on the bus because I was responding (I have a problem sometimes) and I mentioned to the bus driver who is also a mom to a boy about the conversation and why I was almost late. She agrees with me and mentioned her sister is adopting/foster and had to petition the court to get the kid circumcised and the judge said it was a no brainer. Which led me to think about my special needs son who is going to be 9 in September. He is developmentally 2 and yeah if he was not circumcised it would be a nightmare for us to clean and I have no doubts he would get regular infections and have to have it done which would be horrible to try to deal with it as he won’t take any medications. Can you imagine trying to clean a developmentally delayed preteen or teens penis for him? He does not wipe his own bottom or wash his hair himself, it’s already hard enough. We can’t get him proper haircuts because of sensory issues and he gets scared so he has longer hair. You will never be able to convince me that not doing it would have been better. As his mother I feel if it’s not the best it was the best in the situation.
Your child already has special needs and our quarrel is with the routine of needlessly amputating parts of boys bodies. People may have pinhole phimosis or short frenulums or any kind of issue that may necessitate this procedure and it should be a decision they make with parents and a doctor. It’s absolutely not medically necessary for any man to have this done by default default otherwise God would not have made us like this. It was commanded of Abraham so he could mark his family and his slaves as part of a covenant with his offspring not because humanity grew faulty anatomy.
Thank you for the strength to look out for your son, and your whole family, and your community. Most everyone here understands the layers of social pressure and normalization this situation sits under. You’re quite brave for even speaking up about it to anyone and we thank you, because there are many out there who suffer in silence and get ridiculed for being upset .
Thank you for that, I was just speaking with my sister about this and being a parent is tough. I’m just trying to explain parents who choose to do it aren’t bad parents trying to mutilate their kids, I vaccinated all my kids because I trusted the doctors. I don’t anymore…I don’t trust vaccines. Maybe circumcising is bad but you’ll have a difficult time convincing those who do it and believe it’s good. I don’t mind if people ridicule me, not fun but I’m trying to just give another perspective. As parents I truly believe most of us are trying to protect our kids. We just don’t have all the info. My husband and boys are healthy and happy. My special needs son is the happiest kid in the world it seems. He is truly an angel on earth meant to challenge me but I really am trying to trust God to help me protect them and do what’s right.