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I am surprised by the age restriction in gambling:
Age 5: Malawi (Casino).
This means that when a child in Malawi is 6 years old, he can attend casinos.
What is the government of this country looking for with this? Exploiting the Casino industry as the main source coupled with tourism is what I believe. Boys at an early age learn the activity and therefore will be exploited for work.

The age level is kind of low.
However, we have to consider how easy is in Malawi to access a casino.
Maybe people are not restricted by age but with other means such as the income level, etc.

Well, they have a reason for it. It said that in Malawi kids over the age of 5 are legally allowed to gamble, which is is really surprising considering the ages required in our country. The reasoning behind it is that after they turn 5, kids should already have an understanding of the concept of money. At first, I thought it is absurd but it has a deeper meaning behind it.

If that's the reason of Malawi, It's still absurd.
There are many countries that have a good education system that makes kids have deep knowledge of things at an early age. Even though they have it, there are existing studies that kids are not good enough to understand the logic behind the money. Therefore, gambling is not really for kids and shouldn't be allowed for kids. There are also many studies that money habits should start at the age of 10 years old.

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In Malawi kids over the age of 5 are legally allowed to gamble, which is a precedent case an equivalent of which cannot be found anywhere in the world. The reasoning behind it is that after they turn 5, kids should already have an understanding of the concept of money.

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Quote from: leea-1334 on March 27, 2020, 09:46:43 AM

This sounds immediately quite strange to me,,, but there is probably something in there that we are not aware of. Five year old kids can maybe GO inside a casino but I doubt the employees would actually entertain a kid walking inside it right?

That has to be a very bad wikipedia entry:)

Even if they allow it I will not allow my 5-year-old kid to spend times in casinos there are a lot of bad things that your kid won't want to see in casinos, and the kid will learn that it's ok to spend your parent's money in gambling because they not have the means to support themselves maybe it's just a bad entry, someone has to confirm this.

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Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Search about this one and surprised that it's true. It makes me realize that some games in arcades imitates gambling as well. it's all fun and games for the kids but we know it's where gambling starts. Haven't found the reasons about this '5 year old restriction" but if a 5 year old is gambling, they won't know it's gambling, they will be happy winning, they will be sad when losing. And they will want more.

Gambling requires a great deal of responsibility that's why most of the countries use 18-21 as their minimum age to gamble. I hope kids who gamble can still control themselves to stop when they grow up.

This sounds immediately quite strange to me,,, but there is probably something in there that we are not aware of. Five year old kids can maybe GO inside a casino but I doubt the employees would actually entertain a kid walking inside it right?

That has to be a very bad wikipedia entry:)

If they get entertained, they will treat the casino as an arcade store that all are just games and for fun only. But when there's money, the perspective of a kid will definitely change and even it's a kid, it will stimulate his brain and get addicted to it.

Employees will entertain him if he/she was accompanied by an old person. But I feel that 5 years old are allowed but definitely it still depends on the casino house and more likely 18 above is the preferredage.

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Quote from: GDragon on March 26, 2020, 10:44:20 PM

Quote from: Rengga Jati on March 04, 2020, 08:38:08 AM

Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Search about this one and surprised that it's true. It makes me realize that some games in arcades imitates gambling as well. it's all fun and games for the kids but we know it's where gambling starts. Haven't found the reasons about this '5 year old restriction" but if a 5 year old is gambling, they won't know it's gambling, they will be happy winning, they will be sad when losing. And they will want more.

Gambling requires a great deal of responsibility that's why most of the countries use 18-21 as their minimum age to gamble. I hope kids who gamble can still control themselves to stop when they grow up.

This sounds immediately quite strange to me,,, but there is probably something in there that we are not aware of. Five year old kids can maybe GO inside a casino but I doubt the employees would actually entertain a kid walking inside it right?

That has to be a very bad wikipedia entry:)

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Quote from: Rengga Jati on March 04, 2020, 08:38:08 AM

Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Search about this one and surprised that it's true. It makes me realize that some games in arcades imitates gambling as well. it's all fun and games for the kids but we know it's where gambling starts. Haven't found the reasons about this '5 year old restriction" but if a 5 year old is gambling, they won't know it's gambling, they will be happy winning, they will be sad when losing. And they will want more.

Gambling requires a great deal of responsibility that's why most of the countries use 18-21 as their minimum age to gamble. I hope kids who gamble can still control themselves to stop when they grow up.

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Quote from: Rengga Jati on March 04, 2020, 08:38:08 AM

Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

It's interesting but if you look at the wikipedia article you will see for Iceland for example, the 15 years old threshold is only for lottery. For other gambling games the threshold is at 18 years old in fact.

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Quote from: ampere on March 26, 2020, 04:57:58 PM

For me i do not agree with the ageb5 of a thing.

All the people showed the same opinion as you. Unfortunately, nothing we can do unless accepting that fact. Each country must have different considerations to decide the age restriction. Don't easily judge that the Malawi government did wrong regulation in this case.

Quote from: ampere on March 26, 2020, 04:57:58 PM

The age restrictions should be 17 and below.

17 and below? below or above?
Ideally 18+, it is the common age limit on many sectors. But it isn't applied to all sectors because every sector has a specific factor.

Quote from: ampere on March 26, 2020, 04:57:58 PM

Once you are 18, and oast teenage years you can decide for yourself, such age should be the starting points to enable any one to gamble.

Agree. Having 18+ means you are already mature enough. You have sufficient knowledge or competence to determine a good thing or a wrong thing. Teenagers at this age can start living independently and decide what they will do in the future their selves.

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I didn't expect that there's a country where kids with an age of 5 allowed to play gambling legally. Gambling at early age will just cause you a bad habit so I wonder why they allowed it.

But if their perspective towards gambling is just for fun or entertainment then it's fine, it'll just be in the category of games.

no one will get addicted if they educate their child well .

it was like gadgets and computer games being introduced to children when they was still young but many kids are not getting adicted and still study welll , that is because their parents are strict with them . they can do that discipline on gambling too .

many gambling were designed for all ages and most of those are for entertainment so its okay for the kids to get expose with it and mostly those can be found on a real life amusement center/park .

Even if someone is educated very well how things work, when greed hits you, it'll just destroy your life. We know that no one can control the addiction towards it especially when a kid knew they can earn money on it. It's very wrong to expose a kid on money, it'll just bring chaos in their life and will be contented on the result of gambling.

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Quote from: finaleshot2016 on March 26, 2020, 05:15:56 PM

I didn't expect that there's a country where kids with an age of 5 allowed to play gambling legally. Gambling at early age will just cause you a bad habit so I wonder why they allowed it.

But if their perspective towards gambling is just for fun or entertainment then it's fine, it'll just be in the category of games.

no one will get addicted if they educate their child well .

it was like gadgets and computer games being introduced to children when they was still young but many kids are not getting adicted and still study welll , that is because their parents are strict with them . they can do that discipline on gambling too .

many gambling were designed for all ages and most of those are for entertainment so its okay for the kids to get expose with it and mostly those can be found on a real life amusement center/park .

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I didn't expect that there's a country where kids with an age of 5 allowed to play gambling legally. Gambling at early age will just cause you a bad habit so I wonder why they allowed it.

But if their perspective towards gambling is just for fun or entertainment then it's fine, it'll just be in the category of games.

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Quote from: bitcoin-shark on March 25, 2020, 07:44:07 AM

I think it is right to ban all games (intended as games of chance, bets) to minors (the age varies according to individual countries) but only because it can cause them addiction which is then difficult to control / cure...

Possibilities to be engaged as this stage will comes out with heavy addictions, gamblers who begins very young most of the time are
having difficulty of controlling their addictions. They are engaged that deep and hard for to them to cope up.
Best to practice from each government rules to avoid minors to play ahead.

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For me i do not agree with the ageb5 of a thing.
The age restrictions should be 17 and below.

Once you are 18, and oast teenage years you can decide for yourself, such age should be the starting points to enable any one to gamble.

Anything other than 18 years of age, i do not agree with it

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Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Age 15: Iceland (lottery)

Age 16: United Kingdom (Football pool, Scratchcards), Estonia (other), New Zealand (instant kiwi)

Age 18: Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand (horse racing), Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vanuatu, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, etc

Age 19: South Korea, Canada, USA

Age 20: New Zealand (Casino), Sweden (Casino), Japan, Nigeria

Age 21: Belgium, Estonia (Casino), Armenia, India, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines (casino), Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Namibia, Niger (casino), Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, US Virgin Islands (casino), USA, Macau

Age 23: Greece

Source & more detail information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#cite_note-27

is this serious?that Malawi is allowing their Children to Play in Casino as in?does the child has their own money to spend for?
the 15-16 from Iceland and UK is tolerable because as i remember i learn gambling at that age but 5?seems very unreasonable to allow to play in CASINO.

That was shocking I didn't know that there would be a place that would allow a 5 year old child to gamble.
I also agree that at teenage year it is tolerable since I think gambling would be one of our way to have fun and excitement.
I remember that I started to gamble at early age maybe around 12 because of basketball.
But to be able to gamble at casino at an early age I don't really think that it would be a good idea.

Well, At the age of 5 in Malawi they are allowed to gamble which may result to early addiction. If the country permits this, all we can do is to guide the young ones of what they are doing and what are the impacts of it. Each country has there own rules and regulations, legal age for gambling may vary place to place. Age Restrictions is a must on Gambling, with regards to young adults like 18 years old, they are not kids anymore they are now accepted and responsible or have control over their actions. This is the reality that we should know from the first place, anything is possible if one permits it.

Right young age people should not allow for gambling as they may lose patience in case of loss and its really harmful. So better gamble age above 25 as this age people can control their emotions and they better know how to gamble properly and young age people should only learn about gambling and betting at home, but don't waste your money and time if you are under 25.

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I think it is right to ban all games (intended as games of chance, bets) to minors (the age varies according to individual countries) but only because it can cause them addiction which is then difficult to control / cure...

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seeing that many people were shocked that there is a country that allows five years old to gamble doesn't know that there are a lot of countries that have no age restriction in gambling. I remember reading that some of the reason why some countries have no age restriction in gambling is that they believe that young children have no idea what is the purpose or meaning of money(which I think is BS).

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That's too old mate. I think 21 (adult) is enough considering they will have their own income at that age, not stealing from parents. It's true that the older you get, there is a tendency the wiser/more responsible you become. However, if they already considered an adult, they should freely choose whether to gamble or not.

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World wide Greece got the highest age limit to get into gambling still I believe there should be uniform restriction world wide which should be above 30 years so that we can expect everyone will be gambling responsibly.

Some studies are indicating that men are realizing about their social and family responsibility only after 30 years of old. Women are quicker in this category but varies from 22 to 28 based on education and cultural environments. So, I guess to prevent the all dangers of gambling, I guess world wide gambling age restriction should be st above 30 years. This way we can expect less gambling addicted people and people may not lose big like how they are doing currently at younger ages.

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Quote from: verita1 on March 24, 2020, 01:55:35 AM

I am surprised by the age restriction in gambling:
Age 5: Malawi (Casino).
This means that when a child in Malawi is 6 years old, he can attend casinos.
What is the government of this country looking for with this? Exploiting the Casino industry as the main source coupled with tourism is what I believe. Boys at an early age learn the activity and therefore will be exploited for work.

The age level is kind of low.
However, we have to consider how easy is in Malawi to access a casino.
Maybe people are not restricted by age but with other means such as the income level, etc.

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Quote from: criza on March 23, 2020, 09:27:44 PM

Gambling could induce a higher risk for minors that are already engaging in the actuvity because, underage are more vulnerable in acquiring bad habits due to the fact that they do not still have fundamental mindset that will guide them on what is right and wrong. Here in our place, even though there is also an age restriction for gambling, the government cannot still always monitor people doing gambling in the streets even with minors in it because, people can do it anytime and anywhere.

When I was young, we have some things that are similar to gambling it is allowed along with certain festivals. On that day, minors and elders are free to play. I thought it was legal since those elders are also playing. But when I'm getting old I realize that it was not. The policemen raid those places and capture those people who are behind those illegal activities. so until now, I never see them doing that thing again. if their government is just, they will make laws that give their citizens a good place not to turn their places into casino country.

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Quote from: verita1 on March 24, 2020, 01:55:35 AM

I am surprised by the age restriction in gambling:
Age 5: Malawi (Casino).
This means that when a child in Malawi is 6 years old, he can attend casinos.
What is the government of this country looking for with this? Exploiting the Casino industry as the main source coupled with tourism is what I believe. Boys at an early age learn the activity and therefore will be exploited for work.

For me the extreme on this part is a 5-6 years Old can even learn how to play casino games at that younger age?if i see it by my Own eyes for sure i will be amazed.

in my Country that age is just even starting to learn Games outside the house like any normal children games and not Casino Games that can teach them how to spend millions in one day.

definitely i will never Let my children do the same if i am on their situation.

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