The American Academy of Pediatrics says adults caring for children should not spank, threaten, insult or humiliate themhttps://cnn.it/2DmUq6X
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Replying to @CNN
The finding connecting the pain of spanking to brain damage raises serious question about the practice of male circumcision. If spanking retards the toddler brain, imagine how slicing off a chunk of the penis might affect the mind of a newborn.
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Replying to @AKAGeorgeBarry @CNN
There's tons of evidence of circumcision trauma: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201501/circumcision-s-psychological-damage … https://www.academia.edu/6395216/Alexithymia_and_Circumcision_Trauma_A_Preliminary_Investigation … It's extremely painful even with anesthetic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11419014_Pain_During_Mogen_or_PlastiBell_Circumcision … So bad they sometimes use fentanyl: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pan.13429 … That pain matters:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595204/ …
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Unfortunately the @AAPPres refuses to comment on this or update their policy on circumcision to align with the scientific evidence and the majority of the world's physicians:
https://www.thelocal.se/20120219/39200/
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2015/01/22/doctors-defy-new-circumcision-law/ …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2018/02/21/icelandic_doctors_support_ban_on_circumcision_for_b/ …https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58753ec1e4b08052400ee6b3 …
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