Nowadays, some people hold an opinion that athletes are not good role models for children. While this may be true for some people, I believe that athletes are excellent idols for young people. On the one hand, there are some athletes who create scandals, influencing young people in a bad manner. To be more precise, it is now common to see athletes that consume narcotics , rape women, and avoid taxes, which are all examples of unethical behaviours. Therefore, if child sees his favourite athlete perfoming any of the aforementioned behaviours, he might be influenced in a bad manner. For instance, football playe Jayson Greenwood has recently been acused of rape of his girlfriend. Consequently, children who see their favourite football player rape other woman might consider it as normal, having a bad impact on them. On the other hand, since most of athletes come from lower class families, they usually motivate young generation to work hardly. It is because young people are able to put th...