Contact sports have cause many issues in children’s health leading to adult life, and has recently been linked to suicide. Boston University looked into 152 contact athletes, finding 40 percent having chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This is a degenerative brain disease linked to contact sports, with many of the athletes tested having played or currently playing football and other contact sports.
Experts believe children should only begin playing contact sports like football in their teen years, and stick to flag football or soccer when younger. Parents are beginning to question why football is still a legal sport, yet football fans have controversial arguments. N.F.L. games make up 82 of the 100 most watched broadcasts in the U.S., so there is no question of it going away.
“There is a line between the love of a game and the dangers it presents, and even those who have lost a child cannot agree where it is,” writes the team of journalists in the Times newspaper. Though this topic has been disputed, parents make the decisions for their children, especially in sports.
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