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'''Adamant father syndrome''' is the term used to describe the behavior manifested by many [[circumcised]] men when they become fathers. <ref name="hill2017">{{REFjournal |last=Hill |first=George |init=G |author-link=George Hill |title=The case against circumcision |journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender |date=2007 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=318-23 |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912 |quote= |format=PDF |accessdate=2023-10-01}}</ref> There is a strong desire in [[circumcised]] men to have their son's [[penis]] look like theirs.<ref name="allan2024">{{REFbook |last=Allan |first= |init=JA |author-link=Jonathan A. Allan |year=2024 |title=Uncut |url= |chapter=Chapter 3: Foreskin Fantasy |pages=105-6 |location=Regina |publisher=Universisty of Regina Press |ISBN=ISBN 978-1779400307 |accessdate=2024-12-27 }}</ref> The "adamant father" typically insists that any son born be [[circumcised]] even though there is no medical reason for it and it is contrary to current medical advice.<ref>{{REFbook

Denial of loss is a second reason that some fathers adamantly insist that any son be [[circumcised]]. This reason is not incompatible with the first reason, so the two may coexist in the same individual.

Adamant father syndrome is credited with keeping an outmoded, medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgical procedure alive. For example, in [[Australia]], the medical paediatric authorities announced in 1971 that [[circumcision ]] is not necessary and should not be performed,<ref name="belmaine1971">{{REFjournal

}}</ref> however, in 2018, [[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 in [[Australia]] was is credited to fewer fathers being circumcised.<ref>{{REFweb