Just be glad any politician cares about the saftey of young ones.
Wow, that sounds real good on paper but for some reason I don't think it is just about the safety of the children as much as it is about politicians and the parties they belong to having their own agendas trying to get some approval from this human interest" issue.
No one wants to see our wee ones suffering massive brain trauma for the sake of sports but since
There's pretty good evidence that growing brains are more susceptible to injury," said Dr. Lyle J. Micheli, director of sports medicine at Children's Hospital Boston.
Why can't the helmet wearing be optional...up to the parents who have chosen the option of putting their kids in soccer?
With strong evidence of long-term neurological damage among a portion of veteran soccer players
Likely due to them being veteran players! Probably people who are career players and not who played it as kids and later moved on to different paths that feature less physical trauma as a whole.