There's been a significant increase over the past 60 years in kids playing organized sports, results showed. About 70% of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – 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 ...

Instead of fostering a young athlete’s love of the sport, many programs put immense pressure on children and their families.

Among kids born in the 50's and growing up throughout the '60s, only about 45% of girls took part in organized sports, way behind boys. But by the '90s, about 70% of girls were out on the fields ...

“We found that privileged families seem to be leveraging their advantages to strategically and intentionally invest in organized sports participation,” Knoester said in a Ohio State news release.

For kids born in the '50s, there were essentially no class differences in who played organized sports. But for kids born in the '90s, the share of those who played organized sports grew to be 24 ...

A sweeping study of U.S. youth sports participation over the past 60 years has found that there has been a significant increase over time in kids playing organized sports—but particularly among ...