U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services- "Care Counts: Women, Families and the Affordable Care Act Challenge Contest"

"Women are often at the center of healthy and resilient families; they make approximately 80% of all family health care decisions and are more likely to be the primary caregivers for children and elderly parents."

There goes the feminist argument that men are the main ones responsible for the perpetuation of male circumcision.

Interesting, women also make about 80% of consumer purchases. Oh, they must be so oppressed!

xtrnl,

I have to say that the most arguments I get defending infant circumcision come from men. Most pro-circ websites I come across are ran by men.

Sorry, but I am sensitive about women getting the blame for circumcision. In my personal experience (choosing to circumcise my boys- a decision I deeply regret) it was because I asked the men around me, and they made me seem foolish if I didn't circ - and of course, the most important opinion was their father's - he is the one who ultimately decided and told me it needed be done. He handed our son to the doctor and paid for the procedure.

Most mothers know very little about circumcision, and look to men/fathers for advise, or it is left for the father to decide. Unfortunately, the majority of circed men like being circed and then repeat the cycle onto their sons.

From what I see it is white American men (white Canadian men too?) and the Jewish community who are the biggest perpetuators of infant circumcision.

...and thought of your comment.

http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic16787.html

Now read the comments, and then go troll somewhere else.

One more time and you're banned from the site. I don't play patty-cake, sirprince.

I didn't say women were entirely to blame for male circumcision either. Sorry if what I said came off that way.

I just hate it how many feminists try to act as though infant male circumcision is always a decision made by the father. It isn't. On FB, I've encountered countless threads where a mother admitted she made the decision for her son, most of the time for the most shallow of reasons (i.e. "it looks better"). Some talked the dad's (who were anti-circ) into it, and some of them admitted that they knew it was completely unnecessary, but still did it anyway. I assure you that in the case of single moms, it ultimately ends up being their decision alone.

If you look enough, you'll find that the pro-circ community is about half female and half male. I,e. Lisa from "The Doctors" is an avid male circ proponent.

Between the number of moms making this decision for their son, and the countless female nurses, doctors, and ob-gyns performing this procedure, the claim that male circumcision exists and continues to exist soley because of men simply doesn't hold water.

I have no way of knowing statistically if it is "more men" or "more women" who promote circumcision. Whatever gender is in the lead, I highly doubt it is by a great margin.

However, I do not share your assumption that single mothers are more likely to circ. compared to married parents, especially when considering Latinos having a high rate of out of wedlock births and I know they don't circ, and in many states it is not covered by medicare or insurance, so single mothers would have to fork out about $800 to have it done in the USA. Stats show that as out of wedlock births are increasing, circumcision rates are decreasing.

I see quite a few women/mothers arguing with their boyfriends/fathers about circing, and it is often the men who want to circ and the women who do not. (This is brought up often at anti-circ sites). You mention you see the opposite, so I guess we come across different examples. Fair enough - it probably goes 50/50 both ways.

In the article posted about circumcision on the front page of MANN right now it says, the most determining factor of wether a baby boy is circed is if his father is circed. Which seems to me to support it is fathers perpetuating onto their sons. (edit: I guess it could be interpreted that women who have sex/conceive with cut men, then go on to cut their babies because they prefer circumcised penis. so maybe it is not as telling as I thought, but still hard to know)

I get upset when I see women saying that "uncircumcised is gross" and the like, but I see just as many men saying stuff like this. And as far as your comment about female professionals performing circumcision, I am quite certain male circumcisors out-number female circumcisors by a large margin, so I don't share your opinion that female professionals are greatly influencing and increasing the circ rate.

I don't have any official stats which would clearly identify if it is more 'circumcised fathers perpetuating it onto their sons', or if it is more 'mother's sole decision', I just have personal observation. You must have different observations and I certainly respect your opinion.

The good news is circumcision in on the decline.