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→Information for parents regarding non-therapeutic circumcision of infant boys.
This section is for all parents of boys, but is addressed primarily to parents of boys who are located in the [[United States of America]], who appear to be most uninformed or misinformed about the [[foreskin]] and [[circumcision]]. Information is not making it to parents. Studies have shown that doctors provide parents with almost no accurate or useful information about circumcision. After several generations of promotion of and near universal neonatal circumcision in the United States, most Americans are profoundly ignorant of a normal body part and its valuable functions.
=== Surrogate consent ===
Parents act as surrogates for their minor children who are too young to personally grant consent. Surrogate consent ethically is limited to the granting of consent for diagnosis and treatment of disease.<ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics
|etal=no
|title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1995-02
|volume=95
|issue=2
|article=
|page=
|pages=314-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=7838658
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2023-09-14
}}</ref> <ref name="aviva2016">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics
|etal-no
|title=Informed Consent in Decision-Making in Pediatric Practice
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=2016-08
|volume=138
|issue=2
|article=
|page=e20161484.
|pages=
|url=https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/2/e20161484/52512/Informed-Consent-in-Decision-Making-in-Pediatric?autologincheck=redirected
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=27456514
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|doi=10.1542/peds.2016-1484
|accessdate=2023-09-14
}}</ref>
===Provision of relevant information===
|issue=3
|pages=318-323
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman
|init=R