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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.

Here is a link to the article OP quoted.

[url]https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-10/youth-sports-mental-health-pandemic[/url]

I agree with many of the author's points. At risk awakening the forum bully, the instability of youth sports, and particularly soccer, is detrimental to the lessons you want to teach kids - taking risks, managing stress, and persisting through setbacks. Putting kids on a never-ending chopping block beginning at 8 is setting kids up for mental health issues.[/quote]

Looks like nonsense to me.  The crucial quote is this one:  "higher in some cases than those in the age-matched control groups".  Higher in some cases, strongly implies "lower in others".  In other words - these kids are about as depressed as thye average kid - neither more, nor less.  If sports was correlated with depression - which wouldn't be the same as causing it even then - then there should have been a significantly higher rate of depression amongst the sportsters than the control groups.  Sounds like that was not the case.[/quote]

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