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Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Want Their Kids Playing Football

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According to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 48 percent of Americans say they’d encourage a child who wanted to play football to play a different sport over concussion concerns. The percentage is up 8 points since the same question was asked four years ago. This includes 46 percent of parents with a child in the household, up 9 since 2014, 53 percent of mothers, up 13, and 39 percent of fathers, up 6.

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