Recently there has been an increased focus on teenagers and students who lack motivation, suffer from depression, and who are misplaced in our society. For me, sport and activity has always been a way to step away from these problems. Soccer brings my focus away from school problems, girl problems or family issues. That is why I am interested in this research question. It has helped my life a lot, so I think it can help others as well. This means my view on sport is that is that it is a good alternative when it comes to youth's precious time. This affects my assumption and expression about the topic. I have a clear attitude that sport gives you several skills that helps you throughout life.  Though that does not mean I know there are negative parts with sport. My experiences are both bad as positive. If I were to sum up all my experiences, sport related would be both at the top and the bottom. That is why I can reflex on youth sport and discuss both positive and negatives, and how to improve the negatives.  

I am a 20-year-old male student that have played sport my whole life. I have played (still play) soccer, I did track and field and I also played Badminton. Even though the sports were different they gave me the same joy and helped me get a lot of the same skills.  I know for a fact that without sport and exercise, my life would not have been as good as it is. I would not have the same experiences, skills or physical form without sport. I want to show this to others, how good sport and general activity can improve one's life. With my life filled with sport, I know how it has affected me, both good and bad. When researching this topic, I have found that a lot of my experiences can be found in research statistics as well.  

In The Rising Costs of Youth Sports, in Money and emotion Paul Sullivan discusses the costs of youth sport, both in terms of dollar spent, and in emotions for the youth athletes. Sullivan discusses the topic with former professional players, they explain that there are enormous amount of dollars spent on child's sports career, thus as an investment for scholarship or jobs. Sullivan wants to highlight this issue, and explain that the amount of money spent on sports does not justice the risk and possibility for success. Paul Sullivan is a writer who specializes in wealth and money. Since this article was found on New York Times, I assume the content is trustworthy.  

Washington Post article from M. Rosenwald brings the statement that parents are ruining the youth sport.  He points on the increased focus on talent and seriousness as a cause to the decreasing amount of youth athletes in America.  The focus on talent and specialization is caused by parents driven on status and the pursuit of scholarships according to Rosenwald. As a journalist, Rosenwald brings attention to the decrease of young athletes in Americas sport system.  He follows experts to the conclusion that parents are highly involved with this problem.  Due to this simple answer on such a complex and advanced topic makes me question the credibility of this article. Rosenwald is not trying to be academic, so does the article remain bias. That means the reader has to treat to that matter. WashingtonPost is to my knowledge a serious reliable source, meaning that the article itself, can be well written, even though it is bias.  

In "Can sport and physical activity promote young peoples' psychosocial health?" (Kan idrett og fysisk aktivitet fremme psykososial helse blant barn og unge?)  Ommundsen reveals the research on how sports effects physical activity promotes psychosocial health. Ommundsen explains that the results of the research supports, with reasonable certainty, that physical activity and sports can promote children's and teenagers self-esteem.  Youth involved in sport or physical activities. Thus, there was not found results on the effect on cognitive stimulus. One could either say that physical activity as a course decreased the cognitive capacity, (as a replacement of more academic courses).  This research is provided by "Tidskrift for Den norske legeforening", (journal of the Norwegian Medical Association). Which is the Norwegian medical associations own channel to publish their research. This means that the information is fully reliable, due to its strong credibility.   The author's interest is to provide a secure source of reliable information that brings the newest research to the topic.  

Right now, there is no doubt that sport is not for everyone. Unfortunately, sport is not for everyone for the wrong reasons. One can blame parents, the system or the cost of money. The systemization of sport is another complex topic, it also comes in to how sport can fit a bigger amount of consumers. As it is now, one can argue that the positive effects of sport only can be shown for those "lucky "ones that have the talent, and that those without any talent are being left out, and only get negative experiences of sport. Research have thus proven that one can with good certainty say that physical activity or sport involvement promotes youth health.  

I was fully aware of the negatives concerning sport in youth, though it must be said, that the negatives were only Dr. Murphy points, and not statistically proven with rates and frequency. The True Sport report confirmed my assumptions about the effects of sport in youth, though the information provided showed a bigger effect that I assumed.   

I might choose to focus on how the sport system can improve to better provide help to teenagers. Where the school vs Club question becomes essential.  

