I think the young man did a good job, but his father refused the money because he was a conservative person. He should think of ways to spend the money without telling his father about it. He can buy Bitcoin with his money and thus manage to hide it from his father. The young person in the news is over 18 years old. His father must now respect him in some matters. He may have conservative views on some issues, but he must respect his son's choices. Otherwise, they will have different discussions within the family and they will never be able to establish a healthy dialogue.
you touched on a good point, the son is already of legal age, the moment the son starts playing games of chance, then it is because he is over 18 years old and that means he is already an adult capable of taking decisions on their own, the father does not have the right to force the son to return money that the son won, I do not know how this story ended, but in legal terms the father cannot force the son to return the money he won in the game bad luck, the son can use that money to buy a house and do some business, because the son is already an adult
the son being an adult person should already think about being at his house and not being at the father's house, here in Africa the children, even though they are adults, stay at their parents' house and the parents continue to treat the adult children as if they were children and that happens it becomes very dangerous when we have cases like the one OP mentioned or when the son presents a wife and the father does not like the son's wife and forces his son to abandon this woman, these are very common problems that have happened here in Africa unfortunately
Here we observe a timeless inter-generational confilct. The father, a bastion of conservatism, struggles with his son's decisions. The son, emblematic of liberal ideals, wishes to assert personal freedom. The conflict pivots on the father's denial of his son's winnings. While the son, being an adult, has this right, we cannot overlook the father's ethical stance. The son's potential investment in Bitcoin, or other digital assets, underscores the importance of financial independence. This route could bolster his fiscal autonomy, but must not lead to familial deception, threatening their relationship.