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"Kids from homes earning more than $100,000 are now twice as likely to play a team sport at least once a day as kids from families earning less than $25,000."
by RocketSyntax 7y ago
"Kids from homes earning more than $100,000 are now twice as likely to play a team sport at least once a day as kids from families earning less than $25,000."
Sounds like parents that don't have their life together aren't encouraging their kids to challenge and better themselves through sport. No surprise there.
- brodouevencode 7y agoThere's some truth to this, but there's also truth in that low-income homes often use (free) school sports as a sort of after school day care for their kids. I know this to be true because I experienced it first hand.
- perl4ever 7y agoCould it be that better mental health (whatever the cause of that might be) causes both higher income and more physical activity?
- cafard 7y agoFirst off, the upper middle class has heard, a lot, that it is well to encourage children to play sports. They have heard that private middle schools and high schools look favorably on it, they've heard that selective colleges want well-rounded kids. So, willy-nilly the kids strap on shin guards in the fall and pick up bats in the spring. Second, apart from a bit of intramural sports, I never really played an organized sport. But I was out playing driveway basketball or touch football on lawns an awful lot. No, it may not have been once a day, but it was frequent. And the kids of the less well off may be down at the playground a great deal shooting hoops or playing soccer.