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'''Adamant father syndrome''' is the term used to describe the behavior manifested by many [[circumcised ]] men when they become fathers. <ref name="hill2017">{{REFjournal |last=Hill |first=George |init=G |author-link=George Hill |title=The case against circumcision |journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender |date=2007 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=318-23 |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912 |quote= |format=PDF |accessdate=2023-10-01}}</ref> The "adamant father" typically insists that any son born be [[circumcised ]] even though there is no medical reason for it and it is contrary to current medical advice.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Bigelow
|first=Jim
|DOI=
|accessdate=2019-11-10
}}</ref> the circumcision status of the father is the most important determining factor in whether a boy is [[circumcised ]] after birth.
Other closely connected circumcised males who are not the father may exhibit similar behavior.
==The compulsion to repeat the trauma==
The leading reason for adamant father syndrome is the compulsion to repeat the [[trauma]].Some traumatized people remain preoccupied with the trauma at the expense of other life experiences and continue to re-create it in some form for themselves or for others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessell |init=B |author-link= |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=VanderKolkBA 1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-07-24}}</ref>
[[Ronald Goldman|Goldman]] (1999) reports that [[circumcision]] is [[trauma ]] and that trauma tends to repeat itself:
<blockquote>The behavioural re-enactment of the trauma is a compulsion for some trauma victims. Circumcision of infants may be regarded as an example of re-enacting the trauma of one's own circumcision. A survey of randomly selected primary care physicians showed that circumcision was more often supported by doctors who were older, male and circumcised.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman
[[George Hill|Hill]] (2012) commented:
<blockquote>
The best way to stop the cycle of [[trauma ]] is to stop circumcising infants. Non-traumatized [[intact ]] infants usually do not grow up to become circumcisers, so the cycle of trauma would end.<ref name="hill2012"/></blockquote>
==Denial of loss==
Denial of loss is a second reason that some fathers adamantly insist that any son be [[circumcised]]. This reason is not incompatible with the first reason, so the two may coexist in the same individual.
Persons who have suffered the loss of a body part must grieve their loss.<ref>{{REFjournal
== 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 paediatric authorities announced in 1971 that [[circumcision ]] is not necessary and should not be performed,<ref name="belmaine1971">{{REFjournal
|last=Belmaine
|init=SP
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/apa1971/
|accessdate=2020-07-29
}}</ref> however, in 2018, [[Circumcision Info Australia| Circumcision Information Australia]] reported that four percent of Australian boys are still being [[circumcised]], apparently because their fathers are [[circumcised]]. The drop in [[circumcision ]] incidence in [[Australia ]] was credited to fewer fathers being circumcised.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.circinfo.org/news_2018.html#fall
|title=Foreskins rule! Australians rush to abandon circumcision
|quote=
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Trauma]]
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