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}}</ref> Infant circumcision is a profit center for many American hospitals so parents are pushed to circumcise.
Jacobson et al. (2021) collected circumcision statistics from the Kids' Inpatient Database from 2002 to 2016. They reported that the incidence of circumcision had "neonatal circumcision rates decreased significantly over time" with 55 percent being circumcised, which translates to a genital integrity (intact) rate of 45 percent. The previous intact rate for the nation had been reported to be 41.7 percent in 2010, so this represents an improvement of 7.9 percent in the number of intact boys. In the Midwest, the The incidence of circumcision for the entire United States had declined to 75 52.1 percentat the end of the study period (2016), which translates to a genital integrity rate increase to 25 indicates that 47.9 percent or 1 of boys born in 4 boys having that year are intact foreskins.<refname="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
|last=Jacobson
|first=Deborah L.
|page=
|pages=257-63
|url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/JU.0000000000001316
|archived=
|quote=
|DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000001316
|accessdate=2021-10-15
}}</ref> In the Midwest, the incidence of circumcision had declined to 75 percent, which translates to a genital integrity rate increase to 25 percent or 1 in 4 boys having intact foreskins.<ref name="jacobson2021" /> The previous report from 2010 was one boy in five being intact, so this in an increase of 25 percent in the rate of intactness for the Midwest.
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