The decision lives beyond infancy

Some men describe grief, anger, altered sensation, sexual difficulty, or bodily alienation. Others feel neutral or satisfied. Non-universal harm remains ethically important because parents cannot know which perspective their child will hold as an adult.

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Future personal stories will require informed permission, privacy choices, identity verification appropriate to the account, and clear separation between testimony and empirical research. Until that process exists, this publication will discuss documented themes without manufacturing a voice.

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