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[quote=jindc]I definitely understand people's strong opinions on the issue, but....like religion - and specifically Christianity, many people who believe in it are convinced that if you DONT follow what they believe is right, you're doing it wrong.  And this is, to me, a stupid issue where people are always going to scold you for believing in the other sise.

I also believe much or the arguments against it largely stem for a dislike of the fact that it's a non-Christian religious practice.  I don't think people like that it's something Jews (and Muslims, though most people don't know they do it too) do.  I've lived in DC for a long time and work in an "educated" environment where people have no idea what a Jew is.

If you don't want to do this to your child, don't.  Don't assume that people who do aren't aware of science or medicine, or are guided purely by aesthetics.  Nor do I think it's appropriate for someone to think another is  a bad parent because they have made their own (educated) decision to do something.  I don't think this one decision - like many other decisions made by parents - are really any business of anyone else, especially if they don't impact your family.  Not vaccinating your child when it goes to the same day care as mine?  My business.  Your son having foreskin?  What do I care?  I truly don't get the obsession with this, or with the decision other people make for their own families. Especially when 99% of people here (maybe even 100%!) are very educated and well versed in parenting issues.

This is DC - everyone's an expert on everything.[/quote]

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