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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize you are talking to several posters, yes?  What are you considering "histrionics"?  Remember this is a cultural issue.  If the discussion was about tattooing your newborn and some people vehemently disagreed with it would you say that they were unstable?  What if it was about piercing your newborn's nose?[/quote]

I think you should focus on raising your own child, not how others handle their response to their own cultures/religions. I guess I do not understand the Christian American fear of "the other".  [/quote]

I have a daughter, so (unlike the weirdly nosy PP), I do not have a dog in this fight. That said, I do not buy that this is in any way related to the "Christian American fear of the other" that you mention. What started as a religious practice is now basically the medical mainstream. If this was something that was purely cultural, it would approximately match the population doing it for religious reasons, which is not the case at all.[/quote]

I was the PP who mentioned culture.  I didn't mention religion.  It is purely cultural (obviously religion is a part of culture, but that was not my primary point).  That is the reason that it is common here in the US but not in any other westernized country.  I suggest you read this: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896 [/quote]

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