The socio-economic status of parents and their children’s sports engagementCvetković, Nemanja (Avtor) Nikolić, Dušan (Avtor) Golubović, Mihajlo (Avtor) Djordjević, Nenad (Avtor) Stamenković, Stevan (Avtor) Veličković, Marina (Avtor) educationsportsparentschildrenSerbiaThe number of overweight children, not satisfying the daily movement requirement, is increasing. It is a serious problem which should be prevented. The objective of this work is to get insight into the level of children inclusion (engagement) in different organized sports activities, as well as to find out how the parents’ level of education and economic situation in the family influences that. Based on the literature review of previous similar studies, the results obtained may be considered in the right way. The data processing was carried out by means of the Т-test and  2 - test. The study covered 1630 parents of primary school children, from first to fourth grade in the following urban settings: Niš, Vranje, Knjaževac and Pirot. We covered schools both from urban and rural areas of the mentioned cities. The obtained results indicate that the increased educational level of the parents and a better economic situation influence the children’s sports engagement.20142026-03-24 11:24:23Neznano28570UDK: 796.01:37ISSN pri članku: 1451-740XCOBISS_ID: 272796419sl