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Message: [QUOTE="CBus13, post: 2323048, member: 2999"] I hate to break it to you. But a lot of studies show that teens and kids now are watching less TV on average than they did back in 2011. Whether it be because more parents are imposing more restrictions on tv use or what. (My niece and nephews aren't allowed to watch tv during the weekdays unless it's a big sports event.) [URL="http://www.marketingcharts.com/featured-24817"]The State of Traditional TV: Updated With Q1 2017 Data - Marketing Charts[/URL] Also, the average age of gamers in the world right now is around 35. Mainly, because they grew up when video game consoles came out. Women over the age of 18 play more video games than Males under the age of 18. 31% to 17%. [URL="http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/2017-video-game-trends-and-statistics-whos-playing-what-and-why/"]2017 Video Game Trends and Statistics - Who's Playing What and Why? | Big Fish Blog[/URL] The OP article is only discussing organized sports...so kids getting together at the basketball court wouldn't be counted towards these statistics. I think it's also worth considering youth sports as you would any industry and not just as a community sports league thing. The youth sports industry is now a $15 Billion industry and it has exponential growth over the last 7 years (55% growth since 2010). When an industry has a boom of a grand scale, it has a period where it balances out and the growth putters to a stop or even to a negative growth. [URL="http://time.com/4913687/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry/"]How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry[/URL] But with all that money in the industry there are more and more private club's that claim to offer top-tiered training to prepare for college/pro athletics and so people think they need to spend more money to get their kid ready so they are walking away from little league and community leagues that are cheaper with the hopes their child will be the next big star. Meaning, the kids who can't afford the private leagues are left to the more affordable leagues where lesser talent or newer to the sport kids are forced to go and they all get discouraged because they don't see themselves as being able to compete with the kids on the select (more expensive) leagues. There is too much pressure on kids nowadays to be some standout immediately and so they have less time to develop their confidence and skill-level so they quit. [/QUOTE]

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