As common law decisions accumulate, both the questions put to the family court and the resulting judgements reveal how difficult it can be to determine where the individual child’s interests lie....

Father sought a court order that his son should be circumcised, to overcome the mother’s disagreement to this procedure, and who ‘…would find great difficulty in presenting (circumcision) to J in a positive light’. Having considered the countervailing parental arguments, the court found that for multiple reasons, there was no evidence that his welfare required him to be circumcised.