[AngusJS]

You don't own your children. The only body that you own is your own.

Feel free to snip, pierce and tattoo yourself to your hearts content, for whatever reason. Don't force the same on your children.

"But it's part of my tradition/religion." Yes, it's part of your tradition or religion. Your child knows nothing of your ideology, and cannot accept or reject it.

If these traditions or religions are so important, why do people insist on cheapening them by physically forcing children to join them? Wouldn't the religion/tradition be more meaningful if its followers actually chose to follow it of their own free will?

How arrogant do you have to be, to be certain that not only were you lucky enough to join/be forced to join the correct religion, but that your child will eventually see just how correct your religion is, too? Maybe, just maybe, what works for you won't work for them. Maybe they should follow their own conscience and choose the path that makes sense to them.

Don't force a permanent change in your child's body to be in line with your ideology, when you know that he might wish that he had been able to choose for himself, rather than have it imposed upon him.

This is so blindingly obvious, but yet again religion keeps creating problems like this which otherwise would have been solved and forgotten ages ago.