Child's Play
Messner, Michael A / Musto, Michela
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but also its psychological and social ramifications.