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My parents and many friends were aghast that I let our sons play football due to concussion risks but no one has said a word of concern about us letting our daughters play soccer. We have seen multiple career ending concussions and too many short term ones to count on the girls side and literally none on the boys side. The handful of career ending ones on the girls side went on for years of continuing to try to have them play again...only to have troubles arise again...finally getting so bad that either the doctors or the girl themselves said “no more soccer”. In every case, the truly loving parents said if their dd wanted to keep playing it was up to them. When a boy on my son’s team was released to return to football after a mild concussion, all the parents in our friend group practically wanted to stone them to death. Why the double standard? Also weird to me that this time, our culture is expecting the girls and not the boys to just tough it out in a physical sport.
My parents and many friends were aghast that I let our sons play football due to concussion risks but no one has said a word of concern about us letting our daughters play soccer. We have seen multiple career ending concussions and too many short term ones to count on the girls side and literally none on the boys side. The handful of career ending ones on the girls side went on for years of continuing to try to have them play again...only to have troubles arise again...finally getting so bad that either the doctors or the girl themselves said “no more soccer”. In every case, the truly loving parents said if their dd wanted to keep playing it was up to them. When a boy on my son’s team was released to return to football after a mild concussion, all the parents in our friend group practically wanted to stone them to death. Why the double standard? Also weird to me that this time, our culture is expecting the girls and not the boys to just tough it out in a physical sport.
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