Sports: Do they help keep teens out of trouble? At some point every teenager falls under the ropes of peer pressure, whether it is the use of alcohol, drug use or even involved in some type of violent crime. Teenagers want to feel included in some way, and any way they can feel included teenagers tend to follow that path. I have read many articles and essays stating that teenagers involved in after school activities like sports, can lower the chances of them getting in trouble. Sports takes away that extra time that the teenager could be getting into trouble and instead gives them a chance to make lifetime friends, raising their self esteem or focus more on their academics. Organized sports can give teenagers a chance to be involved in something and to feel included.
1. Context and Assumption of the Dispute
a. After reading many articles about the subject of sports and how they keep teenagers out of trouble, I begin to see both sides of the argument. For the arguments saying sports don’t keep teenagers out of trouble, they state that the more aggressive the sport they are in the more they are involved in high risk behavior, such as drug and alcohol use. As I kept researching and reading the different studies …show more content…
In this survey I had read about how being involved in organized sports teams didn’t matter when it came to alcohol and drug use in high schools. They had mentioned that males and females although had lower odds of smoking tobacco while in sports than non athletes, that there were still students persuaded by peer pressure to try tobacco. For alcohol consumption the survey concluded that males who had participated in two or more sport teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol than non athletes and females who were involved in sports teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol or binge drinking than non athletes. [4] Dunn had concluded that “As the number of sports team played on increased, the percentage of students using smokeless tobacco increased.”
1. Context and Assumption of the Dispute
a. After reading many articles about the subject of sports and how they keep teenagers out of trouble, I begin to see both sides of the argument. For the arguments saying sports don’t keep teenagers out of trouble, they state that the more aggressive the sport they are in the more they are involved in high risk behavior, such as drug and alcohol use. As I kept researching and reading the different studies …show more content…
In this survey I had read about how being involved in organized sports teams didn’t matter when it came to alcohol and drug use in high schools. They had mentioned that males and females although had lower odds of smoking tobacco while in sports than non athletes, that there were still students persuaded by peer pressure to try tobacco. For alcohol consumption the survey concluded that males who had participated in two or more sport teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol than non athletes and females who were involved in sports teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol or binge drinking than non athletes. [4] Dunn had concluded that “As the number of sports team played on increased, the percentage of students using smokeless tobacco increased.”