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Are we overworking our kids? A paper applying child labor laws to sport.
Introduction: I wrote this paper with the interest of exploring the time demands placed on youth sport athletes. Living in Southern California many of the youth sport procrams offered, often take up as much time with practice, travel and competition as many high school and college programs require. I believe that the youth sports programs that require large time commitments from children are developed with the best interest of the children in mind, but more is frequently not better. Sometimes we can turn children off to sport because we as adults demand so much of them, and often treat them as if they are adults. There are laws that restrict children from working too many hours, rules set by the NCAA that limit practice time for college athletes, but there are very few, enforced rules related to the amount of time children may participate in adult organized sport.
Review of Literature: Donnelly (1997) looked at the problems associated with children’s involvement in sport and compared that level of involvement to issues related to child labor laws. He continues to assess the reasons why high performance sport involvement is not considered work, yet should have limitations and laws. “This paper proposes a resolution to the child labour dilemma by addressing a series of questions: Are we ready for child labor laws in sport, who would support the laws, who is responsible for the welfare of the children in high-performance sport, and is there any solution? ... ”
According to Donnelly adult-organized sport for children began to develop in the 1950’s and by the 1970’s academicians had begun to express a number of concerns about programs such that children were suffering from competitive stress, anxiety, increased aggression, parental pressure, and were being treated as adults by their coaches instead of like children.
Approximate Word count = 1443
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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