Combat sports are individual contact sports that involve combat between two opponents. These are polistructural acyclic activities that require high-intensity movements and good aerobic endurance. A complete fighter needs to have good physical and mental preparation. Engaging in combat sports enhances children's values and characteristics and respects the tradition and rules that this sport upholds. Parents play an extremely important role in the selection of any sporting activity, including combat sports. They encourage their children, support them, and guide them towards a particular activity. This paper describes short history of combat sports and only some combat sports, such as judo, wrestling, and boxing, the values and characteristics that children acquire through these activities, and the attitudes of parents whose children engage in combat sports. In addition to the described topics, Bourdieu's theory in sports was also used in the paper to highlight class differences in society within sports and the individual's success in sports. To determine the reasons for enrolling children in combat sports from a parental perspective, a study was conducted with online survey questionnaire. The study involved 50 parents of children who are active members of the judo and boxing club "Gladijator" and the wrestling club "Lika." The age of the respondents ranged from 32 to 57 years. In addition to age, other descriptive indicators such as gender, number of children in the family, education, and occupation were used in the study. By processing the descriptive indicators, we gained insight into the arithmetic mean and standard deviation of each variable. Using a survey questionnaire in the SPSS program, the results were processed using an ANOVA test and regression analysis. It was determined that the p-value is 0.862, which is significantly greater than 0.05, so it can be said that none of the independent variables influence the dependent variable. As a result, the proposed hypotheses are rejected.