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The Committee on Bioethics of the AAP (1995) states that parents may only grant surrogate informed permission for diagnosis and treatment with the assent of the child whenever appropriate.<ref name="bioethics"/>
There is was an unresolved question whether surrogates may grant effective consent for non-therapeutic child circumcision.<ref name="povenmire">{{REFjournal
|last=Povenmire
|init=R
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/povenmire/
|accessdate=2013-11-25
}}</ref> <ref name="conundrum"/><ref name="Adler">{{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.