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Catch A Rising Star: The Adult Game of Youth Sports

Into this maelstrom hurls the Anderson family. Tom Anderson is an obsessed sports parent who lost out on his chance for football glory. He seeks redemption through his twelve-year-old son, Marc whom he believes is the best youth quarterback in New Jersey. To stay ahead of the pack, Tom designs a demanding four-hour a day training program for Marc. While some would call this abusive, Tom believes he is doing all a father can do to prepare his son for the fiercely competitive world of professional sports.

Tom's wife, Maggie, disagrees. She wants her children to just be children, and desperately tries to hold on to her daughter, Katie. But Katie has other plans. She is a natural born athlete, and has talent that her brother would kill to have. But Marc has something that Katie desperately wants more than a life in sports: the love and attention of their father, and she will not be denied….

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	"It is clear that Donald W. Albertson has identified important issues and dynamics associated with "family involvement" in youth sports…. With the individualism, "family values," and "focus on the family" of today, parents see that nobody has their backs, so they better get in the face of everyone who does not do right by their kids-in fact, they now feel that it is their moral obligation to do so. If Tom Anderson helps people realize these things, it may be possible to bring about real change." - Jay Coakley, Ph.D. author, Sport In Society: Issues and Controversies

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