Sports are always beneficial to a child’s self-esteem, and parents should make sure their children participate in sports at all costs.

It seems that you have missed the necessary options for us to answer this question so I had to look for it. Anyway, the answer for this is FALSE. It is not true that sports are always beneficial to a child’s self-esteem, and parents should make sure their children participate in sports at all costs. Hope this helps.

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However a show of choice spurs pestering and teasing; this is a conflict.

Though line introduces a background of conflict between both subjects: Mark and Ron; line 3 well articulates it.