Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 17. (Read 3538 times)

In my country, all the university students are +18 already, so they are fully allowed to gamble. They are out of discussion this time. Even if they  gamble, all of them, starting from second year of being in university, work on part time jobs. It is common for out country to send 2 year students on practice where they learn and earn.

The situation with kids and stealing. I think in most cases they get caught by parents, and after first time, they get ashamed so much, that they  never continue stealing. And they steal little money. I have never heard when kids steal thousands to gamble and that ended unnoticed. Those $5-20 they steal, they can repay by doing house work. That hard word is going to teach them how hard it is to earn, and hope they will reconsider continuing gambling after it.

So here you get money daily from parent to buy a snack in school, here in Indonesia only a few schools give a free lunch and most of them don't give any food to their student. Around 1$ a day for most kid and in here you can gamble from 5000 IDR or its equivalent 0.31 USD in a local site using e wallet crazyy right


Agree that at that age you can easily to stop kids from doing further gambling and when they try to steal it gonna be caught. the problem is when they reach high school, most of the kids know about money and how to earn it. and you can stop it if you have already touched a university student


What country do you live in right now? Here in Indonesia kids doing gamble is being headline all over the place 

Prevention campaigns do work, it is just that we cannot expect them to work perfectly, since there is always going to be many teenagers that may like something forbidden just because they like to go against the rules, they cannot resist peer pressure or they have some psychological issues, so teenagers getting into trouble by consuming drugs, alcohol or gambling will keep happening, so the only thing we can do is to try to reduce that number with prevention campaigns and give treatment to the rest that fall into that temptation.

It's the same as my country, where day by day the increase in gambling is increasing drastically. The group from 13 years old to parents from my country's government was surprised that transactions in and out of money a day from gambling sites amounted to trillions. The more digital the access, the more efficient it is, but less appropriate to use, there are many buying and selling applications for carrying out transactions for gambling. causing an increasing number of underage teenagers to play gambling

it won't be as easy as saying, taking children's gadgets of course it will only last for a short period of time. I don't think that will solve the problem of many young people who are addicted to gambling, they can borrow their friends' gadgets and I think they will do other things to can gamble again even if their gadgets are taken away by their parents. What's more, of course their environment is the same as when they have personal gadgets, and if they are prohibited like that, there is a possibility that they can carry out actions that can harm them and even endanger themselves, such as what you said is stealing money.
That's true, children will of course follow trends that are currently popular among them and I don't think it will be easy for them to avoid trends in their environment, especially young people are usually happy with their environment, especially if they like things that are trendy for them. Of course they won't be able to get out of this easily. Apart from that I doubt gambling will disappear among teenagers as a trend.

Absolutely agree with your arguments. No program aimed at preempting anything works the way we want it to. And you can easily see that by looking at how many teenagers are vaping now. The same can be said for STDs, drugs, alcohol. Young people are always eager to try something new, perhaps even something forbidden. Therefore, I also believe that no educational programs can change the statistics of youth participation in gambling, as well as in all other spheres.

If playing a bet meaning sports betting, then it could be the lesser of the evil amongst games. As we have seen that if they like getting addicted to casinos and playing roulette, dice, slot machine games, then that could really be dangerous for this kids.

Yes, if let uncontrolled, they can turn into addicts by the time they reach adulthood. And if by chance they got a job and start a family, maybe they can forget this gambling all together. But still though, everything depends on how we grow, if there are influence on us in terms of gambling.

I have met teenagers who are very well versed in gambling games and come up with various interesting strategies and try to win, but even they are at risk and can lose everything. If we talk about ordinary teenage players who don’t even think about any strategies, then of course this causes a great degree of concern in society. Teenagers simply place bets and hope that they will be lucky, without thinking about the consequences, they just want to win and brag to their friends about their winnings. Also, among colleges, fashion for something, for example, gambling, is spreading very quickly; everyone wants to try what it is and place a bet.

Naturally, this will have consequences if left uncontrolled, minimal control is probably needed so that they play less, but I think the problem is difficult to solve, because with online CIC, teenagers can play from other people's accounts, posing as an adult player.

I would not use such words as developing addiction among teens or kids. Their addiction is easy to stop. They ran out of money and that is it. They might try to steal money, but only few do that, and many got caught. The real problem are gadgets and their affordability. Take gadgets from kids and gambling problems among teens will be solved.

Gambling as trend wont disappear, but gambling among teens as a trend will disappear most likely. Children are not permanent. All the time they want new and more. Ever seen kids playing with same toys, same video games, wear same clothes, using same gadgets? Adults can adopt to "old things", kids and teens no. It is easy to change teens trend - make something that was once expensive, more affordable.

Well yeah, you have a point but spending our money in different things is not the same the way kids spending it in gambling. It's okay to spend our money even if it's not our parents wants as long as it's for our own use but if it's for gambling, that's a different story, we really need the guidance of the parents because we all know that gambling will become the reason of developing addictions at very young age, and as you've said, it is trend nowadays that's why the counts of people spending in this activity is rising more and more. It seems unlikely that gambling will go out of trend because it has been in demand in society for a long time, especially now that there are many online gambling sites that are very accessible to everyone.

When I was a kid and went to school, my father game equivalent of $1 a day, that I can buy something for lunch at school (even though school ended at around lunch time and I ate lunch at home). I have spent those money on snacks or chewing gums. When I was in the university, besides having a part time job, father also gave me around $50 per month as pocket money, which I supposed to spent on a snack or coffee during studies. I have spent those money on video games and on drinks in clubs. I was not an exception. I think every kid spent pocket money the way he wants, but not the way parents suppose they would spend it.

The idea is, that online gambling, like a trend, would end and teens will spend money on something else. That is just a fact and adults must accept that. Gums>Snacks>soda>games>gambling>. Trends can not last forever. After gambling it will be something else that will worry society.

Well that's bad per pressure is the number one enemy of teens since they fell bad in this especially if they are catching the attention if people around him. Maybe if we notice one of our family member showing some sign that they are into a lot of stress recently due to the activities they do then better we should spend some time to discuss their issue since this possible problem need to be discuss so everything will be corrected and they can avoid those people putting them into bad situation.

Those people are bad influence to them or maybe to other people to and maybe this indicates that how bad the gambling issues in their places so I guess its good to open up some discussion and try to make it viral to see if government will take action regarding on this gambling issues what young teens facing in their daily life.

We never knows what they will do if they don't have money. Maybe they will asks their parents to gives more money and they can use many reasons that makes sense so their parents will gives that money. They can lie easily to their parents and if their parents doesn't check the used of the money, their parents will not knows and still gives that money to their children. It seems their children is smart enough to avoids something that can makes them in trouble and if they knows about KYC, they will avoids it and will use crypto site that doesn't have strict KYC. Their knowledge maybe better than their parents as I see many children can use the internet better than adult people. They will knows how to solve their problem because their knowledge helps them to find a way to do that. It needs parents supervision to their children if parents doesn't wants to see their children use the wrong way.

Online gambling is a growing problem due to its 24/7 availability and among young people it could not be less.

What I wonder is where they can get money to gamble, because their parents' paychecks won't last long. Apart from the fact that to play in regulated sites you have to prove that you are of age, and if they are sites without kyc as for example crypto sites previously have to convert fiat to crypto. I do not doubt that they will find ways to do it but they have neither the same ease nor the same risk of squandering a fortune as an adult.


And what money do they bet with? When I was 13 years old I think they would give me the equivalent of 10 or 20 bucks a week and if I spent it gambling I wouldn't have enough to buy sodas or whatever.

World really has gone crazy indeed. These teenagers are being influenced by their peers hence, they are making some things that aren't good for themselves and even worse, these things might lead them to anxiety which will turn out to be depression that might cause to death. I hope that nobody here will have a child that will experience those kind of things.

Nevertheless, their definition of "COOL" seems to be wrong. If they smoke cigarettes or worse, weed, if they drink alcohol until get drunk, if they have large amounts of money, if they are wearing these expensive clothing, they find themselves as "COOL" already. TBH, this is getting worse that the age of kids who are doing these kinds of things are getting younger and younger. Heck, I've also seen kids here in our community that are gambling already (both physical and online), and the range of their ages are between 13-16. I asked them if where they are getting those money and it's from their parents. World really is getting worse, and worse and like you said, it's going crazy.

Well, I also agree with the fact that as they grow older, they might realize any time on their lives that what they did was wrong hence, they will stop it, and change themselves. As they mature, they will realize that what they did was wrong and they will change it.

It's called peer pressures, some are bullies, or if you wanted to join the group, then you have to also do what they did so gambling could be part of that group. And not only gambling though, it could also be one of the so called coolest things, which is to smoke.


World is evolving and there are societies right now that the influence of parents is very small unlike before wherein before you can even drink alcohol, or go to a party, you need your parents consent first.

Well said,  that was your decision as of then, of which you were acting based on peer pressure just to impress your friends. Generalization of kids is not proper, parents still have role to play, and limit kids to social media influence, monitoring there activities, set parental guidance controls. Instilling in them the possible dangers instead of neglecting them.

One thing for sure, everyone of them will learn overtime for now curiosity is pushing them.

That's what happens in most cases. I had the same idea back in the day to impress classmates thinking I would be cool in smoking cigarettes but I'm sure I snap and rebel seeing I have been to the principal's office countless times.
 
Growing older and coming to realize the world doesn't work the way they thought, maturity comes and discussions with friends are not about music bands anymore but how to make money or find a job. They will still come back to the old gambling ways but they will not get addicted anymore.

Kids listen to their so called cool friends, they don't listen to their parents. In fact, kids hate to listen to their parents and many of them intentionally do opposite of what would please their parents. 14 years old kids smoke cigarettes man, they drink and take different drugs, they gamble, they do everything bad because for some strange reasons, it means that you are cool and kids want to be cool, they want to gain attention and respect from their inner circle.

As they grow, they mature but the problem is that many of them are sometimes left with anxiety, depression, addiction and so on. Today you are a cool guy if you are on Prozac. The world has gone crazy. The maturity situation is getting worse in kids who turned adults recently.

Teenagers who already use gadgets and are connected to the internet make it easy for them to access anything on the internet, gambling is no exception, almost all young people have cellphones and can access anything they can access including gambling sites, sadly even minors can do it without the supervision of their parents and mentors at school.

The ease of depositing is something that is very dangerous for today's teenagers who access gambling, what I fear is that many young people lose themselves and play gambling irregularly so that they lose their minds and even worse are addicted and that can be created until they grow up which will have an impact on the growth of character as an irresponsible gambler, I am also Indonesian and in my village there are also many like that, there are even some who skip school and prefer to do gambling all day, and yes our government blocks many gambling sites because it is very dangerous for our country's generation, but in fact the government cannot block all gambling sites and there are still some that operate very freely and even advertise on social media without being banned.
In our country gambling is not only illegal; it is strictly prohibited.