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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is an important but frequently overlooked parental duty for parents of a newborn [[intact]] boy in an American maternity hospital. An American hospital can be a dangerous place for the [[foreskin]] of an [[intact]] boy. <ref name="morgan1965">{{REFjournal |last=Morgan |first= |init=WKC |author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan |etal=no |title=The rape of the phallus |trans-title= |language= |journal=JAMA |location= |date=1965-07-19 |volume=193 |issue=3 |pages=123-4 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan/ |archived= |quote=This ritual, however, has become so widespread in the [[United States]] that it is no longer much of a status symbol, and a situation has arisen where any recently delivered mother who is eccentric enough to wish her child to retain his [[prepuce]], would be well advised to maintain permanent guard over it until such time as they both leave the hospital. |pubmedID=14310332 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1001/jama.1965.03090030045013 |accessdate=2024-05-21}}</ref> Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of newborn boys remains a common practice despite its harmful and unethical nature. Circumcision is a profit center for hospitals, so many will promote circumcision in various ways. It is easy for a nursery attendant to make a mistake and bring an [[intact]] boy for an unwanted [[circumcision]].
Mansfield et al. (1995) report, when a newborn is to be [[circumcised]], both mother and newborn remain in hospital an average of six hours longer, which substantially increases revenue to the hospital,<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal