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sports and mothers  

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  • Parents have a significant influence on their child's decision to participate in sport and physical activity. Growing up in a family where the parents have a sport and physical activity background, children tend to socialize into organized sport and physical activity faster than their peers whose parents were not historically physically active. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Sports and Mothers]

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