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What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers



Restrictions from the gambling sites should be the first solution to go for. The government has to be involved to make the restriction active by making penalty for the sites not following the rules, as it is for pornographic sites so it should be for gambling during registration .The parents too can help to limit the underaged from gambling, this is not easy because the parents won't be there all day with the children.
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These are targeted ads that you will get when you search for something that is related to the said ad. Seeing as you're getting gambling ads on your phone, you will of course get pop-up ads that are meant for gambling sites and such. What I am a bit concerned though is why you're getting pop-up ads even on your smartphone. This could be caused by haphazardly downloading apps on your device which may carry viruses. Don't wanna scare you but you might wanna look into it.
Honestly that's really a large number of underaged gamblers, right now you can easily create gambling accounts and play but of course there's a restriction in regards of withdrawal but the thing is by just signing up and checking the box that you are legal age, you can easily create an account. No matter how big or small their budget starting at a very young age would have higher chance of getting addicted to it and I think that's really dangerous.
Which is why parental guidance is important in ensuring that these underaged individuals do not get lost in the gambling spiral at their very fragile phase. We can't always put the blame on the establishments or the entities that set things up like this because they have a target demographic that the underaged people do not belong in. If need be, moderate the internet usage of the kids within your household to ensure that none of them are getting content that aren't appropriate for their age.
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You cannot blame the parents why the numbers are growing, parents are working and some of them are working longer hours to sustain the family this pandemic and even if they are working online the working hours are also long, children as young as 10 years old already know how to use a cellphone because of online teaching, because of this they can access to these gambling sites and porn sites

Completely not! But for a responsible parents they will spend extra time to check their children's activities. It's still part of their job to monitor their kids even they are all tired working. The problem with underaged gamblers starts inside the house. If you won't allow your kids to spend more time with their gadgets, it will lessen the chance that their curiosities with those pop-up ads will increase. If they know that the time is limited, they will use that to play or to watch their favorite movies or videos.

Maybe it's not all, but it will help in terms of guiding your kids, setting some limitations and make sure that your kids are following everything. It's not easy to protect your kids, but compassion and love will make it happen. No parents would like to see their kids wasting their time and energy on something that they are just ruined their lives.
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If children are up to 10 years old, we don't need to worry, because children that age still haven't shown valid data about what they access and what they watch. remember that their world is different from ours, they only access shows according to their growth like cartoons. It's still too far to access gambling even if it comes to gambling, maybe just games and videos of their age.
The generation is way too different now, some where engaged in playing but now with money involve. We should still be careful and watch what they are doing. Playing with money involve even just a little amount is consider gambling and now that everything online is accessible we must lomit what our child uses. There are apps where we can lock or use kid mode operation in our mobile to avoid them using our accounts if ever they also uses our mobile.


You are right, that caution is the main thing and needs to be given more attention to children. As parents, apart from controlling, we must also be able to provide limits in providing pocket money, this is in order to minimize deposit activities to one of the gambling sites. But is this too far-fetched if children under the age of 10 have to go this far to access the internet? I don't really believe in this.
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If parents can supervise their kids when they are online with their gadgets, their kids will not try to visit unnecessary websites and focus on what they want to do. They will not try playing gambling because their parents have already told them that playing gambling can make them become addicted and can ruin their lives in the short term. The role key of the parents is not easy because they need to guard their children and make sure that they do not break the illegal thing that can drag them anytime.
Well, they choose to make an offspring meaning that they tacitly agreed to the responsibility that's going to come with raising a kid, I wouldn't say that it's the hardest job in the world, I mean a fireman, policeman, soldier and surgeons are much harder than being a parent to be honest.
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We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

It is true that today's children are very smart in accessing the internet, because now the internet has become like a basic need. So almost
everyone accesses the internet including children, and it should be a special concern for parents who already have children. Do not let children
access the internet for a long time, and always monitor what our children do when accessing the internet. Because there are lots of advertisements
and sites that children are not allowed to see,  especially adult sites and gambling sites are very dangerous for children. Indeed supervising children is
not easy, sometimes they are smarter than us as parents. Therefore, as parents, we must also keep up with technological developments,
so we can supervise our children when accessing the internet.

Today because of the innovation of the technology most of the child have their own devices and internet on their houses so they can search about their curiosity easily, and because of too much exposure on the internet and they read a lot they are now enlightened more about this kind of activities. This is better to have children protection to their devices and your internet connection to prevent getting exposed on this kind of activity. Of course as their guardians and superiors, we need to guide them.
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IMHO, Ads popping on android device or even on google is a targeted ads which means you will never receive it unless you are browsing same website or anything about gambling which an underage user that doesn't visit gambling will never receive that kind of ads if they never play gambling on there device.
This is the only reason I see why OP keep seeing the ads everywhere even if he doesn't want it. One way to test your privacy is to use a VPN and you will be surprised to see that the ads that keeps popping up to you is different. Although, there are ways to prevent you from seeing those kind of ads whenever there's a pop-up ads appear in your browser.

Google is your friend if you want to get rid of it.

Gambling sites are everywhere but it's your choice to stay away from them if you dislikes gambling. No one is forcing it to a minors because gambling sites knew that this might be a bad reputation if someone caught them letting minors play gambling on their platform.
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If children are up to 10 years old, we don't need to worry, because children that age still haven't shown valid data about what they access and what they watch. remember that their world is different from ours, they only access shows according to their growth like cartoons. It's still too far to access gambling even if it comes to gambling, maybe just games and videos of their age.
The generation is way too different now, some where engaged in playing but now with money involve. We should still be careful and watch what they are doing. Playing with money involve even just a little amount is consider gambling and now that everything online is accessible we must lomit what our child uses. There are apps where we can lock or use kid mode operation in our mobile to avoid them using our accounts if ever they also uses our mobile.
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Just like pornographic sites, I don't think online gambling sites and casino's can fully checkmate underaged users that sign up, and as a result, unfortunately i see the number of underaged gamblers worldwide to increase significantly by October this year.



You cannot blame the parents why the numbers are growing, parents are working and some of them are working longer hours to sustain the family this pandemic and even if they are working online the working hours are also long, children as young as 10 years old already know how to use a cellphone because of online teaching, because of this they can access to these gambling sites and porn sites
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It is very important to keep close contact with your child in order to understand when it will be necessary to explain these things to him. For example, my daughter is not interested in gambling at the moment, and any number of advertisements and banners does not change this attitude. Perhaps when she grows up and begins to be interested in this, I will have to teach her to understand how everything works here.
Proper guidance is very important and I think it will also depend on the culture of your family, because in my country most of the parents didn't force their Children to leave their home even if they already on a legal age since we are family oriented, and parents are really responsible. Underaged can exposed to gambling easily because of the advance technology that we have right now, we can't blame them for that since we give them the access to online, what we can really do is to spread awareness, and educate them as long as we can.

Historically, my country is poor, so there has never been a culture of sending children "to free bread" upon reaching any age. Many families live by three generations in the same house and this is considered normal. But this leaves a certain imprint on the relationship (and I cannot say that this is bad with regard to the issue under discussion) - increased control by the parents and reduced freedom of action by the children.
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Honestly that's really a large number of underaged gamblers, right now you can easily create gambling accounts and play but of course there's a restriction in regards of withdrawal but the thing is by just signing up and checking the box that you are legal age, you can easily create an account. No matter how big or small their budget starting at a very young age would have higher chance of getting addicted to it and I think that's really dangerous.

Are there restrictions in regards to withdrawal? If it is a crypto casino then I think there are no restrictions. There are no KYC required during withdrawal so there is really no way the site can tell whether the gambler who is making a withdrawal is underage or not.

This issue is about parents making sure their children who are minor are well guided and monitored. They should know more or less which sites their children are visiting so that any sign that their children are involved in gambling should be addressed early on.
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We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

If children are up to 10 years old, we don't need to worry, because children that age still haven't shown valid data about what they access and what they watch. remember that their world is different from ours, they only access shows according to their growth like cartoons. It's still too far to access gambling even if it comes to gambling, maybe just games and videos of their age.
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Honestly that's really a large number of underaged gamblers, right now you can easily create gambling accounts and play but of course there's a restriction in regards of withdrawal but the thing is by just signing up and checking the box that you are legal age, you can easily create an account. No matter how big or small their budget starting at a very young age would have higher chance of getting addicted to it and I think that's really dangerous.
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We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.
Even if you install protection from undesirable content for the child on your home computer and all mobile phones in the house and, of course, children's mobile phones, he will still look for a way to bypass the protection, because his friends say "look - it's interesting ...".  And now he is struggling to access the Internet, free from parental protection.  And as a rule, it still gets access to unwanted and dangerous content. 
How to deal with it, I can't even imagine how?  Only by complete  ???blocking, which is now unrealistic.
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We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

It is true that today's children are very smart in accessing the internet, because now the internet has become like a basic need. So almost
everyone accesses the internet including children, and it should be a special concern for parents who already have children. Do not let children
access the internet for a long time, and always monitor what our children do when accessing the internet. Because there are lots of advertisements
and sites that children are not allowed to see,  especially adult sites and gambling sites are very dangerous for children. Indeed supervising children is
not easy, sometimes they are smarter than us as parents. Therefore, as parents, we must also keep up with technological developments,
so we can supervise our children when accessing the internet.
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We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.
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On the notification panel of my android device and that of many other devices of people in my locale that i have come across, I noticed too many pop up ads about one gambling site or the other, which with a click, you will find yourself in the interface of an online casino or betting site asking for you to sign up and get huge bonuses, I also observed that when using the chrome browser on my cell phone to surf some websites on the internet, I am forcefully redirected to some gambling and betting websites that opens up on the tab as well.

I'm concerned for the underaged and how easy these things have become so exposed to them. I did a little research as to the statistics of underaged gamblers for last year, and according to an article, "39% of 11-16-year olds have bet their own money" as at when published in October 2020.

https://www.roulettesites.org/blog/responsible-gambling/underage-gambling.php

Just like pornographic sites, I don't think online gambling sites and casino's can fully checkmate underaged users that sign up, and as a result, unfortunately i see the number of underaged gamblers worldwide to increase significantly by October this year.

What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers?


I guess it depends on what the definition of "bet" is in this circumstance.

If it is described very loosely then 39% is certainly within the realms of possibility. But I doubt that 39% of all teenagers have actually bet money in the casino, for example.

I do think that the gambling sector should be heavily regulated, but not to the point where it is inaccessible to anyone due to draconian KYC standards.
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Well what is the credibility of this site ? to give those statistics? it looks like they are just wanted to lure viewers but it is not the reality



I don't know if the site is trustworthy but i think this is not what happens worldwide.

and the site comes from UK so meaning this tackles only about UK gamblers and not worldwide .
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Those pop up ads really target everyone that's visiting their website and whoever clicks it. There's no solution on this as they can pop everywhere but with the guidance of the parents of the young ones, I think it's the best thing to do to avoid them being exposed in gambling at a young age.
It is also needed to raise awareness on this matter because there might be parents that cannot do that because of busyness and they are not aware of such so, letting them be aware of it, they might take action like blocking those sites that their kids might accidentally visit.
Well, I think ads can be mitigated by using some ad/pop up blockers or simply choose some browsers that ads free with the likes of Brave browser or whatever they could think of that can be a solution may it be free or paid. Most parents these days can't afford the guidance when it comes to these gadgets unless they're knowledgeable enough to for some mitigation and know-how.
It can but not everyone is aware of those ad blockers because the typical user that isn't yet known about this are the kids and their parents that have a different profession. They're not techie until someone gives them the idea that they should use ad blockers just to block these ads.
It is true that many parents don't know the right thing in guiding their kids about things that involves technology and that's why some kids are used to gadgets and likely being controlled by it instead of them controlling it.
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It is natural for underage gamblers to be concerned about the problem online because gambling at such a young age will cause problems in their normal life.
sorry but it is not the underage is whom concern here but the people around them and also the government .
If you read the whole topic it is not about the their concern because they care nothing about gambling because all they want is to spend money for this
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It will create obstacles in the way of growth it is important to have a certain age to gamble the role of family is more in overcoming this problem of minors parents can prevent gambling if they take the right steps they need to be well educated about the bad aspects. There will be entertainment to reduce the addiction to the game.
Age is required in every country to be allowable but the problem now is that Online gambling is there and there is no need to present themselves but to gambling and deposit specially now that there is crypto gambling that only requires KYC  for formality .
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