Even when Alicky, my wife, became pregnant and we saw those blurred images on the ultrasound screen, with the indeterminate grey smudge that, the scan operator assured us, was a nascent scrotum, circumcision remained a given.
Then, however, Ezra was born, and I held him in my arms and changed his nappy and stared at his foreskin – that tiny surge of flesh at the end of his willy – and suddenly the certainty evaporated. Could I really do this to my son? Subject him to what is, when faith and tradition are stripped away, a traumatic and, in the UK at least, medically unnecessary act.
- The Independent, August 05, 2007
2. Like father like son-in-law for daddies'girls
WOMEN who have had happy childhood relationships with their fathers are more likely to select partners who bear a strong resemblance to them, according to a new study released today.
“Daddies’ girls” who have been the apple of their fathers’ eye use his facial characteristics as a template when choosing a mate in a process psychologists call “sexual imprinting”.
By contrast, women whose experiences with their fathers have been less than positive are likely to steer away from going out with a man who looks like him.
- The Scotsman, June 5, 2007.
3.Spencer was born in Derby in 1820, the only surviving child in a dissenting, politically radical family. “Individuality was pronounced in all members of the family,” he wrote, “and pronounced individuality is necessarily more or less at variance with authority.” His father, George Spencer, a philosophical materialist with Quaker sympathies and violently anti-clerical attitudes, was a reformist schoolteacher, a not very successful lace manufacturer, and a sometime inventor. It was from his father that Herbert picked up his passion for science and engineering, and also the value he placed on the forms and manners of individuality. “My father would never take off his hat to anyone, no matter of what rank,” Herbert proudly explained, and would never address anyone as “Esquire” or “Reverend,” but only as “Mr.”
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