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===Adamant father syndrome===
It is now well established that [[circumcised ]] men who become a father of a boy overwhelmingly want the boy to be [[circumcised]].<ref name="brown-brown1987">{{REFjournal
|last=Brown
|first=Mark S.
|date=2012
|accessdate=2019-11-11
}}</ref> Such [[circumcised ]] fathers are driven to repeat the [[trauma ]] of their own [[circumcision]] decades ago on their own son even acting contrary to current medical advice.<ref name="goldman1999" />
However [[Ronald Goldman|Goldman]] pointed out several reasons (from the viewpoint of the child) that a father should not insist on circumcising a boy:
===Circumcised medical doctors===
Most [[Circumcised doctors| male doctors in the United States are men who were [[circumcised ]] as infants]]. Consequently, despite being medical doctors they have no personal knowledge of the human [[foreskin]]. These men share the [[trauma ]] and attitudes of other [[circumcised ]] men and are just as likely to want to repeat the [[trauma]]. LeBourdais (1995) pointed out that the "age of the attending physician, sex and circumcision status" were important factors in determining the likelihood of a baby boy being [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=LeBourdais
|first=Eleanor
}}</ref>
[[Ronald Goldman|Goldman]] also points out that, in making the decision regarding [[circumcision]], parents tend to follow the perceived norm.
===Mixing religion and medical science===