When did it become common for parents to not circumcise their child?!

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Since always? Up to 150 years ago, circumcision was virtually only done among Jews and Muslims. In the past 150 years though, Americans started to circumcise boys because it was thought that it would prevent them from masturbating. The circumcision rates shot up to 90% in the 1960s, and have since been declining - and now only about 33% of baby boys in the USA are circumcised.
In other developed countries other than the USA, circumcision has always been uncommon. Like in Europe for example only about 2% of baby boys are circumcised. And in Canada only about 10% are. The whole circumcision-prevents-masturbation thing was mainly an American idea.

Worldwide, it has never been common to circumcise infants. Besides among Jewish and Islamic communities, only in English speaking countries did this become popular, as a means of limiting masturbation (during the reign of Queen Victoria, who also thought table legs were too sexualized and that they needed to be covered by table skirts...). In most countries the circumcision rates have dropped off drastically a while ago. In the United States in particular, the rate has fallen to 33% (this number is debated, more likely in mid 40% range). There are many reasons for this, but a state-run health care such as Medicaid and insurance providers have discontinued funding, the internet has made information about the effects of circumcision more readily accessible, and the world is becoming smaller, exposing more Americans to the rest of the world, where circumcision is uncommon, at much higher rates than ever before.

It's never been "common" for parents to circumcise children.

Female circumcision of minors is illegal in all civilized countries, and males should have equal protection under the law from genital mutilation, called circumcision.

In the USA, after WWII, circumcision became very common, as unscrupulous doctors promoted it as being "healthy" and "preventing diseases." These doctors make money from mutilating male babies, and are frequently members of the religions that try to impose circumcision on all males; they're highly biased.

With the advent of the internet, the truth of the damage that is circumcision finally has become available, and more and more Americans are finally realizing that it's wrong to damage the penises of infants, and that circumcision damages sexual feeling, function and ability.

Most of the males in the world are not circumcised; about 80%. It's normal for a male to have a foreskin.

Normal people don't mutilate children's genitals.



Circumcision is a fraud and a hoax.

A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright.

ERIC

When people finally woke up and found out that circumcision was a farce and there was no medical or ethical reason to cut baby boys.

And the insurance industry quit payng for it about 10 years ago.

It's actually not that common right now in the western world for children to not be circumcised. There are trends that go up and down based on the culture at the time.

It's never been common world wide. However in the US the rates have crashed drastically in the pasy 10 years.

-Connor

It was never common in most places in the world, and still isn't.