Ms Angie Elkins

Hello,
My name is Angie and I�m 20 years old and was homeschooled from the age of 8. Well I�m all grown up now and am thinking about the future. I am lucky to have been (through homeschooling) surrounded by some WONDEFUL moms. I have learned so much from them about parenting. I love kids and I know that I�m going to have them someday so I like to learn all that I can about parenting while I�m still as young as I am. I have already decided on some �unconventional� ways of parenting. Such as, home birth, extended breast-feeding, attachment parenting, family bed, unschooling (of course) and now I am learning about circumcision. It is so funny that this came up on the list right now because it�s something that I have been researching for the past few weeks. I have definitely decided that I�m not going to do it. I recently wrote an email to a list called [email protected] and got some GREAT responses about some concerns I had. The biggest being is how I will handle it when my extended family finds out. But it�s just one more thing that I�m going to have to deal with. I know that I will have problems anyway with the other things I�ve decided on. I�m just going to have to stick up for myself and not back down. Well, I wrote more than I wanted to. I just thought you guys might want to read my email that I posted (below) to the list and I have some great web sites too! But I just want to let you know that I have learned a lot sense I wrote this and I don't think it was a very big desision. Now that I know what I know, there is just NO WAY!! :o)

~Angie

Hello, my name is Angie and I'm 20 years old. I am not a mom yet but I will
be some day. I am friends with a lot of moms who say it's wrong to circumcise
your child. I agree for a great deal of reasons. First of all I think it
should be my (future) son's choice whether or not it should be done to him.
Also I think that that's the way god made him so why mess with it? And the
biggest reason is that I can't even imagine letting someone cut a piece of my
child off. So I have a lot of good reasons. However, I know that when the
time comes that I do have kids I know it will be a family problem. My mother
will support me in whatever I do, it's the men in the family and my
grandparents who will have the biggest problem with it. But I know that I
can't do something like circumcise my son just because they will be mad. What
I would really like is to read all the info I can get on the subject. The
pros and cons, medical facts. I would also really like to hear what a man
thinks of the subject. I just really want to make sure that I'm doing the
right thing. This is such a big decision that I want to be prepared by
learning all that I can now so that I have no doubts later on. Thank you so
much for taking the time to read this e-mail. I would greatly appreciate some
help with my research so any info you can give me would be great.

Thanks, Angie

http://www.cirp.org/ http://www.norm.org/ http://www.nocirc.org/ http://www.noharmm.org/ http://www.cirp.org/nrc/ http://www.sicsociety.org/ http://www.circumcision.org/

http://www.MotherFriendly.org/ http://www.MothersAgainstCirc.org/ http://www.UncutEntertainment.org/

http://www.SexAsNatureIntendedIt.com/ http://www.StopInfantCircumcision.org/

http://www.SexuallyMutilatedChild.org/ http://faculty.washington.edu/gcd/DOC/

http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/lewis1/ http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/taylor/

http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/cold-taylor/ http://www.SexuallyMutilatedChild.org/firstluv.htm





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