The idea that we send our children out regularly to do battle is terrifying. They have no protection. When they are wounded, we encourage them to get back up again and go into the fray. And then they get wounded again and again and again.

But that's what happens when we let them play contact sports.

If you think I'm exaggerating, I bring you 25 year old rugby league player Eli Katoa, Melbourne Storm's star second rower. He suffered three head knocks in the space of 90 minutes while playing for Tonga against New Zealand in the Pacific Cup in Auckland. Three head knocks. Three head knocks in 90 minutes. He played on after the first one. He played on after the second one. Then he had a seizure and ended up with surgery for a brain bleed.

Sure. I hear you say. He's a professional. But I'm n

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