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|accessdate=2020-07-29
}}</ref> Failure to grieve one's loss may leave one permanently stuck in the first stage of grief which is denial of loss. Men who have failed to grieve the loss of their [[foreskin]] and its [http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/ functions] may not want an intact boy with a foreskin around to remind them of what they have lost, so such an individual may adamantly insist that any son be circumcised.
==Prolongation of an outmoded, harmful, surgical amputation==
Adamant father syndrome is credited with keeping a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgical procedure alive. For example, in Australia, the medical authorities announced in 1971 that circumcision is not necessary and should not be performed,<ref name="belmaine1971">{{REFjournal
|last=Belmaine
|first=SP
|author-link=
|title=Circumcision
|journal=Medical Journal of Australia
|date=1971-05-22
|volume=1
|issue=
|pages=1148
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/apa1971/
|accessdate=2020-07-29
}}</ref> however, in 2016, [[Circumcision Info Australia| Circumcision Information Australia]] reported that four percent of Australian boys are still being circumcised, apparently because their fathers are circumcised. The drop in circumcision incidence was credited to fewer fathers being circumcised.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.circinfo.org/news_2018.html#fall
|title=Foreskins rule! Australians rush to abandon circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|last=
|first=
|author-link=
|publisher=Circumcision Information Australia
|website=
|date=2018
|accessdate=2019-11-06
|format=
|quote=
}}</ref>
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