In her fifth month of pregnancy, Dana Edell learned that she was carrying a boy. Her parents, who are Conservative Jews, asked about the ritual circumcision. “Well, what if I’m considering not ...

Oh boy. The question of whether to circumcise our sons has divided U.S. parents nearly in half, with one side insisting it makes smart medical sense and the other condemning the practice as barbaric.

Just as more American parents are choosing not to circumcise their children, so too are more Jewish parents reconsidering the practice. Devised by ultraliberal rabbis, the Brit Shalom is a relatively ...

I am a 38-year-old father of two little boys living in Portland, Oregon, and I like my circumcised penis. However, when it came time to decide the fate of my sons’ own genitalia, my wife and I bucked ...

Circumcision can make cleaning the penis easier and reduce certain infection risks. An uncircumcised penis can be kept clean with proper washing habits. Circumcision is a personal choice often ...

Circumcision of infant boys used to be pretty much routine in America, whether a child was Jewish or not. Then, since the American Medical Association declared the procedure elective, some parents are ...

A friend who works for the federal government wrote recently to say that because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), she was able to add her wife to the family’s ...

An Israeli woman has been fined by a religious court for refusing to circumcise her infant son. The rabbinical court ruled last week that circumcision was for the child's welfare and that the woman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When my son Henry was born, and the hospital urologist came to visit us at his bedside in the NICU, it took all my self-restraint ...

Before giving birth to her first son three years ago, Allison Manley, now 40, gave a lot of thought to childbirth (she wanted a drug-free delivery), diapers (cloth), vaccines (spaced out) and ...

I was so anxious about the idea of circumcision that I actually hoped for a girl. I didn’t get a girl. I got two beautiful boys instead, and therefore had to make the decision twice. Though our sons ...

Case of parents at odds over fate of young boy’s penis has drawn ‘intactivists’ from across the country who object to surgical removal of child’s foreskin An estranged Florida couple’s fight over ...