Babble

The celebrity baby list keeps growing - who welcomed their third son? Hint: He's young . And he's restless . Joshua Morrow, star of soap The Young and the Restless, and his lovely wife, Tobe, have a new son! Their third, Cash Joshua Morrow, born on Monday April 21, at 1:22 p.m. at a Los Angeles...

Percentage of American boys circumcised in 1963-65: 76 In 1999: 65.3 In 2003: 55.9 Percentage of American pediatricians who recommend circumcision to all parents: 24 Percentage of American pediatricians who discourage circumcision: 9.4 Percentage of American pediatricians who make no recommendation:...

"We always tell parents there is no medical reason to circumcise, but we respect cultural obligations." — Kim Gush MD, FAAP. Chapel Hill, NC. "I am for circumcision. New evidence shows less transmission of AIDS in circumcised men. This is a world-wide issue." — Eugenia Marcus, MD...

Whether you call it felony child abuse, a gross misinterpretation of the Hebrew Covenant of Circumcision or a father’s foreword thinking to reduce his son’s risk of contracting the HIV virus by 50% while increasing his need for a tetanus shot by 100%, a North Carolina Man has been accused of circumcising...

Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman welcomed their son on January 12 and they celebrated his first week of life by having his bris. A bris is a Hebrew baby naming and circumcision ceremony usually performed on the eighth day after the child is born. Max Liron was officially named and more than a dozen...

I bet you thought there was no away even the most creative researchers could design a before-and-after study examining the effects of circumcision on sexual enjoyment. After all, it's not like the volunteers would be lining up for standard study compensation: fifty bucks and all study-related medication...

There’s a high-level smackdown going on in a respected medical journal . Two doctors make their case for and against something regulars on parenting message boards and websites have been hashing out for years: circumsizing baby boys. But instead of calling each other vicious mutilaters or cultural imperialists...

When my older son was born 11 years ago I sort of took it for granted that he'd be circumcised. After all, I had never until then met a penis that wasn't. But his father had a different idea, basically presenting the question: why? To that I had no answer. And apparently I am not alone: the U.S. circumcision...

The results of a new study conclude that male circumcision provides significant, immediate protection against HIV. Circumcised men in the study were 63 percent less likely than uncircumcised men to be infected through sex with HIV-positive women, whereas the AIDS vaccine has a target of 30% risk reduction...