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The [[https://www.racp.edu.au/ Royal Australasian College of Physicians]] (2010) released a statement indicating that neonatal male circumcision "generally considered an ethical procedure", provided that 1) the child's decision makers, typically the parents, are acting in best interest of child and have been given full knowledge and 2) the procedure is performed by a competent provider, with sufficient analgesia, and does not unnecessarily harm the child or have substantial risks.<ref name=":0">[https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf Circumcision of Male Infants.] [[Royal Australasian College of Physicians]]. September 2010.</ref> They argue that parents should be allowed to be the primary decision-makers because providers may not understand the full psychosocial benefits of circumcision.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, this procedure does not present substantial harm compared to its potential benefits, so parents should be allowed full decision-making capacity as long as they are educated properly.<ref name=":0"/>
This statement also recognizes that waiting until the boy is of sufficient age to make his own decision would better respect his autonomy, but points out that this may interfere with a child's religious inclusion that circumcision was meant to confer.<ref name=":0"/> With neonatal male circumcision, they acknowledge that the child may later on disagree with the parents' decision <ref name=":0"/> but using the same reasoning, an uncircumcised child may also disagree with his parents' decision not to have him circumcised in infancy.<ref name=":0"/>
|location=The Local
|date=2016-12-05
|accessdate=2019-11-02
}}</ref>
=== Scandinavia ===
In 2013 children's [[ombudsmen]] from [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Denmark]], and [[Iceland]], along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the children's spokesperson for [[Greenland]], passed a resolution that emphasized the decision to be circumcised should belong to the individual, who should be able to give informed consent.<ref name="resolution2">{{REFweb
|last=Nordic Association of Children's Ombudsmen
|title=Let the boys decide for themselves