Editing Benjamin Spock (section)

===Male circumcision===
In the 1940s, Spock favored [[male circumcision|circumcision of males]] performed within a few days of birth. However, in the 1976 revision of ''Baby and Child Care'' he concurred with a 1971 [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] task force that there was no medical reason to recommend routine circumcision, and in a 1989 article for ''[[Redbook]]'' he stated that "circumcision of males is traumatic, painful, and of questionable value."<ref>{{citation|publisher=[[Canadian Children's Rights Council]]|title=Circumcision - It's Not Necessary|work=[[Redbook]]|date=April 1989|author=Spock, Benjamin}}</ref> He received the first Human Rights Award from the International Symposium on Circumcision (ISC) in 1991 and was quoted as saying, "My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone."<ref>{{cite journal|author=Milos, Marilyn Fayre|author2=Donna Macris|date=March–April 1992|title=Circumcision: A medical or a human rights issue?|journal=Journal of Nurse-Midwifery|volume=37|issue=2 S1|pages=S87–S96|pmid=1573462|doi=10.1016/0091-2182(92)90012-R|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/milos-macris/}}</ref>