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Will recreational youth sports cease to exist? - NewsNation

Far fewer children are playing team sports, and there's a laundry list of reasons why kids are choosing not to participate.

Will recreational youth sports cease to exist? | Morning in America

Far fewer children are playing team sports, and there's a laundry list of reasons why kids are choosing not to participate.

What's the Deal with STL Sports Culture and Kids? : r/StLouis - Reddit

There is evidence that specializing in a sport that early is bad for general physical development, and physical as well as mental health. Kids ...

Will recreational youth sports cease to exist? | Morning in America

Far fewer children are playing team sports, and there's a laundry list of reasons why kids are choosing not to participate. Read more: https:// ...

Youth Sports Facts: Challenges - Project Play

The average child today spends less than three years playing a sport, quitting by age 11, according to a 2019 survey by Project Play with the Utah State ...

Participation Trends - State of Play 2023

Core team sports participation (meaning playing on a regular basis) for youth ages 6-17 declined 6% between 2019 and 2022.

Will recreational youth sports cease to exist? | Morning in America

Will recreational youth sports cease to exist? · Florida election officials push for expanded access after hurricanes | NewsNation Live · Retired ...

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High-pressure youth sports is bad for America - Slow Boring

Project Play found that “the average child today spends less than three years playing a sport, quitting by age 11.” After all, if what it means ...

Youth Sports: Supply. Demand. Access. - Sports Business Journal

“One is exclusion and the barriers to entry because youth sport is heavily privatized and it's extremely expensive and hard to access for lots ...

Why So Many Kids Are Priced Out of Youth Sports

With the potential for billions of dollars to be made, the youth sports industrial complex became more expensive and demanding. As private ...

Why We All Need to Fall in Love with Rec Sports Again

The youth sports industry is becoming bigger, more expensive, and more privatized. This is hopefully not new information for the Reformed ...

Opinion | Why Have We Allowed Money to Ruin Youth Sports?

There's a consensus among sports doctors and psychologists that this is not healthy. It's not developmentally in a child's best interest, but ...

The Death of Youth Rec Sports - Jacksonville Mom

Parents of babies and young kids, prepare yourself now. Youth rec sports is not what it used to be. Perhaps it is because we live in the ...

Are American youth sports in crisis? Inside the competitive youth ...

While American childhood was once dotted with pickup basketball and recreational baseball, today's youth sports opportunities are increasingly exclusive, ...

Game over: Middle-class and poor kids are ditching youth sports

Youth sports participation is rising among richer families, as children lower down the ladder exit the field.

How Sports Can Help Rebuild America - The Aspen Institute

Recreation options for lower-income kids, already minimized by a shift in recent decades toward expensive travel teams, are threatened. And ...

The Problem With Youth Sports - ACES Nation

... youth sports today and what we can do about them ... The point of this list is to demonstrate the depth of the issues that exist ...

How America Sold Out Little League Baseball

The privatization of American youth sports over the past 40 years is one of those revolutions of late-stage capitalism that should shock us more ...

Against Kids' Sports - by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study

This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here.