Circumcision of Males / Male Genital Mutilation (MGM).
It is the position of the Canadian Children's Rights Council that "circumcision" of male or female children is genital mutilation of children.
The statistics show more Canadians parents are not having their infant sons circumcised ( genitally mutilated ).
The rate for male infants in Canada has dropped from about 50% in 1998 to about 20% in 2000. The overall incidence of male circumcision for all of Canada declined to about 13.9 percent for the year 2003.
Rates of male infant circumcision in the province of Quebec dropped from about 30% in 1971 to a rate of less than 3% in 2003.
The rate in the province of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, dropped from about 60% in 1971 to about 18% in 2003.
Western provinces generally dropped the same rate to about 20-25% in 2003. Newfoundland had a 1971 rate of about 7% and has dropped to about .6% at most in 2001.
Nova Scotia had a 1971 rate of approximately 53% and has dropped to a 2001 rate of 1.5%.
In 2003, the rate of male circumcision in the United States of America was about 55.9% with a rate of about 77.8% in the Midwest.
In South Korea, boys 10-13 years old are routinely circumcised mistakenly "for medical reasons".
About Male Circumcision / Genital Mutilation.
At birth, the foreskin is normally fused to the underlying glans, protecting that delicate organ and, also, the urinary meatus. As the child gets older, the foreskin very gradually loosens and becomes retractable.
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