Children under twelve shouldn't be allowed to play football because of head trauma and concussions. According to the article the author states that "Former players were found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE," According to the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University. Children are delicate and they aren't able to recover as fast as adults are that is because they haven't fully grown yet and aren't as strong children are still in a developing stage where they haven't gotten full strength. Playing football as a child is trauma to your body because children are underweight and shouldn't be going against other children twice there size, As