However, some parents are still very reluctant to enroll their children in football or rugby. This, I believe, is why high-contact sports may eventually disappear. Every year fewer children play sports where there is a high risk of head trauma or concussion. (Paine) Parents do not want to gamble with their children's mental abilities and therefore deny them the opportunity to participate in high-contact sports. In some sports, they have changed all sorts of rules and almost completely changed the game to ensure player safety. For example, Hockey Canada called for a rule change to delay body checking in minor hockey. Instead of having kids learn how to hit in PeeWee (ages 11-12), they moved it back an age range to Bantam (ages 13-15). (CBC Sports) Parents were becoming too nervous about letting their children play a sport where there was hitting or violent body interactions for no reason. Why spend thousands of dollars for your child to play a contact sport and risk injury when there is little chance of them becoming a professional athlete. Essentially, contact sports are becoming less popular among younger children and