Circumcision

[Benton]

(01-19-2016, 04:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Tha numbers Benton pasted have a little truth behind them, but many of them ar gross exaggerations.  The circumcision rate in the United States is still close to 80%.

But you are correct that it will become more and more accepted.  

Like I said, I won't attest to the validity of that site as I've never spent much time looking up the numbers. But...

Quote: The percentage of newborns who are circumcised in the United States has been on the decline in recent decades, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).



Between 1979 and 2010, the rate of newborn circumcision among males declined from 64.5 percent to 58.3 percent, the report found.

The rate was highest in 1981, at 64.9 percent, then declined during the 1980s, rose again in the 90s, and fell again in the 2000s, reaching a low of 55.4 percent in 2007, the report said.

The biggest overall decline was seen in the West, where the rate dropped from 63.9 percent in 1979 to 40.2 percent in 2010. At its lowest point in 2003, the circumcision rate of male newborns in the West was just 31.4 percent

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/circumcision-rate-drops_n_5107637.html

Quote:Boys born in the West are more likely to skip circumcision than they are to have the once common procedure.

It's a dramatic change over the past 32 years. Back in 1979, about two-thirds of boys out West got circumcised in the hospital soon after they were born. By 2010, only 40 percent were.
Overall, rates of circumcision performed in U.S. hospitals have dropped about a 10th over the past three decades. Fifty-eight percent of newborn boys got circumcised in the hospital in 2010, compared with around 65 percent in 1979. The rate has fluctuated, with the modern national low of 55 percent coming in 2007.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/08/22/214406903/popularity-of-circumcision-falls-in-u-s-especially-out-west

The stats seem to be coming from a CDC report, which is linked in both articles.