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It is very difficult for a father in denial of loss to protect a son from circumcision. One father exclaimed, "''What was so difficult in leaving my son intact was not that my son would feel different in a locker room, but that I would feel different from him. I would then have to accept that I'm an amputee from the wars of a past generation.''" | It is very difficult for a father in denial of loss to protect a son from circumcision. One father exclaimed, "''What was so difficult in leaving my son intact was not that my son would feel different in a locker room, but that I would feel different from him. I would then have to accept that I'm an amputee from the wars of a past generation.''" | ||
==Prolongation of an outmoded, harmful, surgical amputation== | == Prolongation of an outmoded, harmful, surgical [[amputation]] == | ||
Adamant father syndrome is credited with keeping an outmoded, 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 | Adamant father syndrome is credited with keeping an outmoded, 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 | ||