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}}</ref> Therefore, it has been necessary to establish an educational program for both parents and physicians on the normal care of the [[intact]] [[penis]].<ref name="bollinger2007" />
Sadly, many health care providers promote harmful infant [[circumcision]] because they profit from it's performance. Parents of [[intact]] boys in the [[United States]] have an additional responsibility of protecting their [[intact]], [[foreskinned]] son from harmful, painful [[Forced foreskin retraction| premature forcible foreskin retraction]] (PFFR) by ignorant doctors and nurses.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/protecting-intact-boys-from-harm/
|title=Where Circumcision Advocates Strike: Protecting Intact Boys From Harm
|last=KristelAlissa |first=AlissaKristel |init=K |author-link=Kristel Alissa Kristel
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2024-12-23
|accessdate=2024-12-23
}}</ref>
===Infant penile anatomy===
When boys are born, the preputial sac is sealed shut by a [[synechia]] called the ''balanopreputial lamina'',<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal
|accessdate=2024-06-26
}}</ref> There are two reasons that the foreskin of infant boys does not retract:
* The tip of the foreskin is too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]].
* The inner layer of foreskin is fused with the underlying glans penis by a [[synechia]].