Don't do it. circumcision is an unnecessary mutilation. get the opinion of a few doctors about doing this to your child first. the effects are not only physically deleterious but in many case psychologically also.
Circumcision is painful and only necessary if you don't wash very often, so its understandable why the tradition started among the Jews and Muslims in the desert - there was just not enough water...
The reason boys being wanted rather than the girls is because when the boys grew up and got a wife, the wife would leave her family and look after the boys parents. The girls original parents would...
It depends on the age of the child, but often a younger child is so use to 'mom' bringing them up they miss their comfort zone. Some children get homesick. If your child is 6 or over (even early...