PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 4 October 1982, pp. 597-598
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The Role of Parental Information in the Incidence of Circumcision

Alfredo J. Herrera MD1, Andrew S. Hsu MD1, Uma T. Salcedo MD1, and Maria P. Ruiz MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore

The decision of whether or not to circumcise an infant is usually left to the parents, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.1 However, recently, we showed2 that parents are not properly counseled to make such an important decision. In a study involving 100 parent pairs of circumcised male newborns, we found that 63% of them do not discuss the matter of risks and benefits of this procedure with any medical personnel until the time of birth. Twenty percent were confronted with the issue for the first time while the mother was being admitted to the hospital after the onset of labor; 23% did not know why the procedure should be performed or believed it was automatically required.2


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