Organized youth sports are increasingly for the privileged
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A sweeping study of U.S. youth sports participation over the past 60 years found that there has been a significant increase over time in kids playing organized sports – but particularly among more privileged, educated families.A national survey found that about 70% of Americans born in the ’90s and reaching age 18 by 2015-16 said they took p...
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Original Title: Organized youth sports are increasingly for the privileged, a new study finds. For kids born in the ’90s, the share of those who played organized sports were 24 percentage points higher when they had a college-educated parent when compared to not having had a college-educated parent.