Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 22. (Read 3514 times)

That's true, there will be some moments that they're going to gamble even if they will be prohibit that's why the patronage should start at home.

The time will come for these teenagers that they will realize that life isn't just all about them gambling all day long or getting some money from their parent's pockets.

While those that have side hustles, they can do whatever they want with their money. Yes, there are teenagers nowadays with side hustles but still that doesn't give them a pass to gamble.

Parents play the major role, but it is not only parents who are involved in bringing up a child. If you are close to a teen, they may learn some habits from you that their parents do not have, so you who is also not a parent, need to be careful so not to teach these children these habits unknowingly. If you gamble in front of teens, even though you are not their parents, you are indirectly teaching them to do it, and if they look up to you as a father-like figure, someone they can learn from, they will be influenced to try it.

Though their are lots of things that could hinder a child from being responsible which includes peer pressure, bad society, lack of quality upbringing and many others but it all falls back to the parents of that child, when a child is spoilt the society would say the parents didn't raise them properly and when it's the other way round all praises goes to the parent, therefore parents have a big role to play in raising their children.

 Children learn very fast especially at teenage age and a that age they'll want to explore and try out things whether good or bad, it's normal it human nature to tend to know especially at that age, that's why it's the duty of parents to provide proper guidance for their children, parents ought to drag them closer not only gibe them quality education in schools but also educate them at home concerning certain things and their consequences.

Of course, a lot depends on the parents, including upbringing and attitude towards gambling. If teenagers constantly see their father playing, then they will probably want to try it too. And even if he forbids them, they will find time and place for what he did not disturb them and will completely plunge into the world of excitement. Another difficulty is that it can be difficult for a teenager to explain and understand how dependent one can be; he can only do so through his own sad experience. Therefore, I sometimes wonder whether he will even be able to understand where this dependence begins, because even an adult cannot determine this very often.

This is the kind of concern that many parents and other concerned people are seeing nowadays. So, if they're trying to do some solution about it, I am for it.

There's no need to be against to those people that are looking to see the new generation not to get addicted in gambling. Even us, we're also into gambling and we don't want teens to get addicted on it.

If that's the way they are seeing it, it's not the best solution but it's a way to reduce the number of teens getting addicted. IMO, the best is still to educate the parents so that they'd pass it on to their children to not to engage in gambling.

Fine, there are means of identification, but this has never been 100% effective. As I write, underage people are gambling with verified means online and offline, and they either fake it, buy a verified accounts/IDs or look for older persons to verify the account for them. So this can never be 100% reliable.

But let say you should speak for yourself and not others on others and not speaking for companies, let them talk for themselves. Fine, some casinos will truly mean well for the world, but I can assure you that many, if not almost all of them do not see it that way, they are all for the money regardless of who brings the money. The age issue has been the subject of discussion for so long, it is much better in many sane countries where their system is working and people are not so desperate for money. But for the developing/poor/third world countries where anything goes, nothing like that can't be spoken of them.

By the way, that is for the physical betting. But for online gambling, if not for the regulations, do you think that casinos will not do worse? If some of them could be caught for money laundry and cheating of customers, how much more is collecting money from underage people who they did not force to do so but are willingly interested in gambling. It is the law that is restricting them and curbing a long of menaces and excesses of companies not that they will out of their good nature do the needful, except a few of them that are truly humanly in nature.

It will be a good idea to implement gambling prevention education in schools because that can helps students to knows what's the risks of playing gambling and how to avoids if someone asks them to join. It needs supports from all parties, including parents because that programs can supervise their children in that schools. Their teachers also helps to supervise the students when they are in schools but parents must still pay attentions to their children in home. The situation now is different so parents and teachers must really careful to guide students and make sure that they will not doing something that can harms their lives. Students interaction with their friends now becomes worried because with many information that they can gets with easy, that can caused them to acts without filtering if that's good or bad for them. That needs supervise from their parents and teachers so everything will be good for their children.

Slots, this is the only game that is most associated with the passion of teenagers or school children who are trying to get some money easily, they have been indoctrinated by external influences or the views of gambling streamers on social media.
A child or teenager still has an unstable attitude and they are easily influenced by anything bad that can make them feel pleasure and ease, but they cannot think long term.
Problems like this are actually very difficult to eliminate or resolve because they play online and nothing can prevent it except their own awareness to stop and abandon all gambling activities.

I have never really seen solution that is truly proven to be accurate for dealing with all of this, and if there is, it is only small part because the majority can still do it freely without any pressure being applied.

I do not think think that grown men do not understand the nature of what they are doing.

I would understand if teens engage in an activity involving money and they do not realize that they are actually gambling. When I was a kid, I used to buy lotto skins from a certain online fps game not knowing that I was already engaging into a gambling-related nature of transaction.

Grown men, on the other hand, know already the basic understanding of their actions. They are also aware that what they are engaging into is gambling overall. If they are justifying that they do not understand what they are doing, then they are either that ignorant or just plain in-denial.


Of course- gambling prevention programs should be implemented into programs that schools may offer.

For example, schools and universities may implement into their schedule a dedicated 1-2 days of gambling awareness and its dangers. If the young could understand and grasp the potential dangers of gambling addiction, then this can at least reduce the amount of teens being addicted to such act.

I don't know whether it makes a lot of sense to talk about gambling. It could be more of a general issue called addictions. Nobody would stop someone from trying to play cards for money or something. Or play a round of roulette. It's something people will try and as soon as there are ways to easily access something at a young age, it'S taking place no matter what.

Take porn as another example. Whether there are courses in school about the dangers of porn addiction or not, it won't stop any of the kids interested in it to access it via their mobile phones. The problem is that not even a ban would solve the problem.

I do think though that public advertisements on TV and Youtube are not the best way to go about it. These advertisements are often said up in a way that's telling the people how cool and promising gambling is. That might be problematic, but if someone really wants to gamble, then better make sure that kid knows when to stop with anything (alcohol, drugs, gambling, porn, etc.) instead of focusing on one specific thing. It can be part of a cause generally teaching about dangers and threats in life and how quickly risks can be underestimated or go unnoticed entirely up until a point when it is hard to get away with low to no harm done.

Never mind teenagers who are still underage, even those who are old enough and perhaps already have families often lose control when gambling. Especially those who are still teenagers, whose behavior and thinking are still unstable, who are not yet able to determine and take responsibility for the decisions they make, who are not yet able to truly differentiate between what is good for them and what is not. With all their shortcomings, lack of experience, knowledge and understanding, they are very vulnerable to becoming addicted to gambling and being trapped in a cycle of irresponsible gambling.

Gambling can destroy their lives and future, because the negative impact and domino effect of irresponsible gambling activities is worse than we think.

And the lack of attention and supervision from parents is one of the main factors in the number of teenagers involved in the cycle of irresponsible gambling. And many of them (parents) prioritize their work more than their children. They have neglected this, and underestimated the importance of family education for a child. So I agree with what the OP said, that education related to gambling prevention must be pushed into the educational realm, especially in public schools. Because currently school is the only place they study.

In my opinion, schools should talk about gambling, this would be the ideal place to educate children from an early age to understand the differences between gambling and investments, to know more about addiction and its consequences. If they can create an account at a casino when they are minors, they would also grow up knowing that when they are of legal age they cannot play with the aim of making a profit because gambling games were not designed for people to make a profit. Most of the time, families that have money tend not to control the children and give computers and phones to the children to have fun.

and with that, children find gambling sites and start playing, they know that their parents don't have time at home, that's why they take the opportunity to play and even manage to steal their father's ID to do kyc at the casino and with that play without problems. As parents don't have time, it's better for schools to do the parents' job, which will be to educate children correctly, which is why I agree that when making choices, you should talk about gambling

Yes!!!

Gambling has evolved a lot thanks to technological advances, something I don't even need to talk about, but the point is that young people are much more connected to technology than adults. So, any new technology is quickly disseminated among young people and arouses immediate interest as it becomes popular among groups of friends.
Because of this, many users of these applications and online gaming platforms end up experiencing extremely high exposure and end up taking risks that they were previously unaware of, as they initially treat gambling as something fun and do not see that it ends up becoming an addiction.

Another important aspect that I have noticed is that many young people who are interested in sports, especially football, end up using betting games as an extension of the sporting experience... this alliance between the games and the sport they like makes the competition more exciting to the point that some people find it extremely difficult to stop betting because the experience no longer has the same fun.

Finally, I believe that a young person's head is still a "sponge" to absorb a lot of new things, it is a stage of life in which everything that is pleasurable is their main priority.... this is a bad time in life for become addicted to gambling.

Prevalence of online gambling among the youth in our country is considered as an important and national issue especially among school and college students online gambling trend has become a cause of great concern in Guardian circles. The horrendous gambling addiction among students who are supposed to be busy with their studies will greatly affect the current education system.
Moreover, the education system should include some education about the dangers of gambling. Moreover, I will blame the current legal system of my country for this social and state degradation because currently no laws are being made in our country regarding this gambling especially among school and college students because of which they are paying close attention to online gambling. I would hold the legal system and police system in my country largely responsible for this.

If this subject or course should be included in the educational curriculum then it should be in the subject or course of Civic Education which is popularly known as citizenship Education in which where all the deviant behaviors you mentioned are taught in all level of education. And I noticed that there are two things that making the increase of teens in participating in gambling and the first one is android devices or phones the the second one is the internet. When these two things have not been invented or when it was only internet and no android devices teens were not involved in gambling but the invention of android devices make teen to play gamble online more than ever.

And most of those deviant behaviors have been taught in schools so it will be very easy to add this as one of the sub-topics of the educational scheme of work and add it to the lesson note. This is a good idea.

Most schools don't mention about gambling and I think, it is really high time to include the discussion about this addictive activity. At least be open to these students as they may have queries towards this industry. If the teachers are open to this discussion, maybe, some kids or students will disclose their troubles towards this activity, if there's any. Most students are hiding their gambling activities as they know the negative reputation of this in the community.

Younger generation who are into gambling usually can't cope the roller-coaster ride of emotions involved in this activity. Hence, you will hear some bad news of some youngsters ending their life owed to gambling debts. Even adults have hard time dealing with gambling losses especially if they lack funds supporting this vice.

Lke the guy said, they are already being educated about other kinds of addictions, but they are all about consuming something physical (eating, drinking, injecting or inhaling), so it might come as surprise to someone who hasn't been taught that you can get mentally addicted to something like gambling as well, and how that can cause real physical symptoms. Not to mention the fact that when it doesn't come as surprise, they would be mentally more equipped to combat the symptoms. And not wrecking their finances just because they don't know what's happening.

They could actually teach about addiction in general, not just gambling, drugs or basic stuff, but mechanism of how addiction works, and why people get addicted in the fist place and how that can happen to anyone, and how that doesn't depend on your social class or education or how smart you are.

I definitely see how it would be helpful to understand how broad the whole subject is and how it doesn't just concern junkies, and maybe could give tools to empathy and not judge addicts so easily.

At last, they notice it somehow because it is already an alarming situation that could ruin their life once they fall into early addiction. I wish this also happen in our place.

It is already time for the school to act before this situation worsens. Proper education is needed as they are old enough to understand why they should not gamble while studying. Guidance from the school and as well as from their parents will be effective in battling this issue. Let them help to understand that there is a right time for gambling, not now while they are still in school. Even if it was just a friendly game, it still influenced their mind and it will carry one if not stopped.

Ah, honestly, I found a lot of news like this, both globally and in my country. The sad thing is, there are many teenagers who do online gambling, without the consent of their parents and in fact it happens every day, and some of them even shock everyone around them because what they do really has an impact on their family. It's not easy to do online gambling, especially for teenagers.

Where do they get money from apart from their parents? and how they can get money easily from their parents to do online gambling, there are definitely various ways and there are also bad ways that they might do. Whatever it is, this habit is definitely a bad habit. because after all teens are still not ready financially, morally, emotionally, and also knowledgeable in gambling.

If it's that urgent, why not? Even though it may not have that significant a chance and may depend on how it is presented, it is true that they often listen more to what teachers say than parents. Education about gambling, its dangers, risks, and also some other activities will be very wrong or actually very dangerous for them when they are not that strong mentally and emotionally managed. because managing gambling is not easy.

That's right, basically the school is just doing its job to teach a child some general lessons for a child of that age, but it's a fact that at the end of the day all the prevention stuff comes back to the parents, or I mean the school is just doing its job and there's usually no curriculum at all that's geared towards gambling prevention, which is good but I don't think people who aren't related to each other really care that much.

At the end of the day it is the family or the parents who can really do it because if we are talking about gambling prevention measures then someone has to have full access to be able to apply it to others and one of the more likely ones is the parents. It is true that I also recognize that there are now quite a lot of school children involved in gambling, one of the causes may be the wrong environmental factors, and if they are gambling in the school environment then yes I think the school should also be involved to solve this problem.