Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 25. (Read 3473 times)

Gambling promotions are not getting into the right people/person but they go to different classes of the society and ages.

I would agree and support how the school and other groups creating solutions to this but this is a big challenge on their part because social media is now a leading contributing factor that influences young people (and even kids) exposed to gambling. We understand that young people support sports tournaments but on the other side, they make use of this as gambling. They are having fun with sports but at the same time, they are gambling as well (illegally).

They can educate them but the question is if they are seriously listening and following it. I see that it works when parents give their participation as well and give proper guidance.

And take for example in our country, we have our local digital wallets (Gcash) in which you can access a lot of gaming platforms. And as far as I know, there are a lot of students that are falling into this gaming because it's very accessible and I don't think that they are also very strict as far implementing KYC. So it's really a very dangerous world that we live right now and if we are not very careful on children and be there at their side and guide them, they might simply fall and be an addict at a young age. So for those who are parents here, just to remind you that we have our responsibilities as well for our children, just saying.

Educating the younger generation about the dangers of gambling should indeed be done, with the increase in technology and gambling sites that are easy to find. As a government, we should take precautions starting from blocking illegal sites. Learning the dangers of gambling in every school, and other things that are useful to keep the easy generation away from gambling.

But back again to each young person himself. If they are already addicted to gambling, only they themselves can cure gambling dependence,

In this case, it is the role of parents who must focus more on teaching the dangers of gambling to each of their children. Prevention so that their children do not fall into negative things. And focus more on positive things

this is one of the things I noticed when it comes to online gambling sites, especially that there is no verification process that happens when you create an account and sign-in, Usually there are people I know who are under 18 who can use gambling sites because they fake the identity they use to create an account, so many minors now know about different types of gambling but it's difficult because they are exposed to this activity at a young age and if you think about it, at that particular age, we can say thay some of them aren't totally matured when it comes to decisions and thinking. they are prone to gambling addiction especially if they can't control themselves. At that age, parents no longer monitor what activities they are doing, but even so, parents should check by talking to their children what they are really busy with, in that way they can even give an advice on what to do and what not to do.

This not true, KYC is required to verify if the players is underage or not. The problem in online casino is it’s very easy to bypass this age restriction by availing other KYC which is often being offered as service in crypto.

But in general, Casino is very strict when it comes to age restriction once you are caught, it’s just easy to bypass this restriction online that’s why it feels like casino doesn’t care at all.

I don't really think that it would help much, we have sex education to prevent teenage pregnancy, smoking and other drugs as well is also being talked at schools so they wouldn't use it, but look around, there are still so many teenager who are getting pregnant, smoking and doing drugs,so I don't really think that it would prevent the teens from staying out of gambling.
If we really want to stop the teens from gambling, it should start at home not from the school, their parents or who are living with them should be the first to talk about it have a conversation, know why they are gambling or why they would gamble in the future so that they could prevent it.

The root cause is accessibility and ignorance; 60 - 80% is a very alarming level that prevention and education should be implemented to lower these numbers; the lift of the ban on sports betting by the Federal court made it possible for even teens to access these betting platforms, the only way to combat these is massive education for parents and teens about the harmful effects of gambling, prevention in accessibility will also help cure addiction from children.

Here in our country, we are so strict on our teens when it comes to gambling addiction. We are a conservative country, and we protect our children through both education and restriction because we treat our children as the hope of our country, and we need to protect their welfare.

what I do believe is that why do gambling site really cares about who will gamble when they are targeting as many depositors and players they may get?that 18 and up rules is just written but they don't wanted to strictly implement that and will let those youngster lied in their details because they will only face the problem once you won and need to withdraw lol.

yes, educating the younger generation about gambling awareness is one of the best ways to protect them from gambling issues/problems and its increasing presence in the younger generations due to technology. not teaching them in their younger years and making them understand gambling and the issues and problems that can come with it will just make them ignorant about it and they will have no idea or very little about how to navigate through gambling issues on their own when they are finally exposed to it.

It should be done because now it's so easy to access these gaming applications and gambling platforms, and some kids are too wise to fake their documents; they also learned how to do it on the internet, the internet is an information highway they are good at exploring tips and tricks about gambling so they become addicted to it.

The school and the home should be the ones responsible for leading the young generation in enlightening about gambling and how harmful it is if they take it up at a young age like they are.

Instead of outrightly gambling in a country, it will be better to promote gambling preventive education in high schools and colleges. This will help the country to help these young students to make good choices and avoid gambling addiction. Most young children are exposed to gambling on social media and through peer influence because they no nothing about gambling but these enlightenment programmes will guide kids and give them have basic knowledge of gambling. If these students learn about gambling from professional teachers and counsellors they might be able to get the right information about gambling instead of learning from friends and social media.

Gambling education could have been existing since a long time ago but not common or not existing in some countries. I can say that there is nothing like gambling education in Asia and Africa. I do not think it is common in North America, Europe and South America and Australia. We only even saw this today but which could be ineffective. What we noticed more is that gambling is becoming more common among teen and the under aged are not given a better education on gambling.

I don't complain about the busyness of parents who spend time working for the sake of family life which includes the needs of children.
From me, perhaps there is no solution that can be conveyed here regarding this matter other than preparing yourself when one day you become a parent because initially I thought that the implementation of the rule that children under the age of 18 cannot have a smartphone had not yet been implemented.
My initial conclusion after reading your post means I can't say whether I agree or not because I'm stuck with ideas.

I have also remembered something like this during my high school year. Though it was not part of the curriculum, If I remember it correctly it was a twice a year kind of student seminar called career development. It discusses how to become successful with choosing ones career and how avoid being addicted with bad vices and that includes gambling.
Well, in todays generation, if students got involve in an online gambling, then I think the schools and educators should get a separate education that focuses the effects of gambling and the regulators should do their part as well, otherwise these numbers would surprisingly spike multiple times in the next coming years because of its easy accessibility.

I agree that it should be implemented.
The growth of the gambling industry is too fast. Advertisements of gambling applications are plastered all over different sports either while the game is going or in commercials. Then, there's the advertisements on the internet so everywhere they look they will see these ads and at one point they will click it because they are too curious about it.

There's the wrong thing, it becomes money first before "fun as a fan". It should be the other way around. Because if we always think about the money first, we tend to get revenge and then chase the losses by doubling the amount next time we bet unlike those having fun as a fan first, they might just bet the same amount over and over again because they are just looking for that additional spice while watching their favorite sport.

I did be surprised if anyone said he or she did not see this coming, judging from the way that inflation have more than tripped the cost of every thing in that world, which also generally include in the cost of living which have more than tripped over the years.
Clearly, some parents can no longer provide for their kids any more like they used to, so this kids and teens have to find the easiest way to provide or fend for themselves, and this is why alot of them are turning to gambling as a way of making money for themselves while in school.

Personally, I do not think introducing a gambling education will be productive in reducing the number of teens that are already into gambling, and stopping those coming in, I think rather, that introducing gambling education will be counter-productive in the sense that, it may end up acting as a gambling advertisement to the young ones who are yet to get into it, we all know that teen of nowadays want to explore, and are most likely to do that which they are advised not to do.

The only solution I think is for the government to work very closely with both online and offline casinos to impose stricter rules and punishment for any teen who is not up to the specified age, that is caught gambling, this I think will be more effective in reducing and curbing the number of underaged teenage gamblers.

Isn't education about gambling prevention or gambling addiction has been exist since long time? I remember there was few non profit organization conduct a seminar when I was a kid.

This has been implemented, but students won't be in school for 24 hours, they can stop playing their phones in school, but they can freely play it when they're in home. If you complain why the parents let they to play phones in home instead of restrict them, you need to know if their parents are busy. His dad need to work all the time, while his mom need to take care the house and anything everyday.

Indeed, the development of technology now makes everything easier, including gambling. now that online gambling has made it easier for everyone to get to know it, because many people spend their daily lives on the internet and social media and the gambling industry also takes advantage of this by placing as many advertisements as possible on the internet so it is not surprising that many people are familiar with online gambling and do online gambling, especially for those who are teenagers or adults, of course they will occasionally see gambling advertisements on social media because the majority of young people use social media in their daily lives, even for studying, sometimes they use the internet and social media.

It's true what you say about parents who cannot guide and supervise their children all day long, but parents' upbringing and guidance is of course necessary, even though there are times when they will determine their relationships, parents' upbringing also influences them, if parents educate and guide them properly. good and right, maybe his child will be able to differentiate between good and bad things. As long as I gamble online on various platforms, I have never registered on a gambling platform and written down my age, but is there a platform like that?

I do agree, and it used be a billion dollar industry, but gambling now whether online and offline are a billion dollar industry. Perhaps it has something to do with the pandemic when everyone is at one doing nothing or got bored and then we see the rise of online platform.

Anyhow, yeah, even here in our neighborhood I have seen a lot of teenagers going into online gambling. And just a couple of days ago I know someone who won big, but then again in the next couple of days he losses everything and now can't focus on his studies because he has tasted that huge money and wanted to repeat the same experience. And it's really a bad influence to the underage or youth and we really need parents to be very mindful of their kids so that they won't be addicted to it.

Generally speaking, th whole school curriculum needs to be changed or improved upon to meet with what's the reality of the present day society.

Topics like gambling, financial literacy, marriage and relationship, updated carrier options and other relevant issues that really butresss on what's prevalent at the society now needs to get into the curriculum and taught in a such a way that they don't just paint the bad side of these concept but put in effort to create a neutral ground such that theses kids don't feel as though they are being deprived access to these kind of things without telling them the reason why it's not advisable to go into active gambling as a teenager.

Believe it or not, an average 10 year old boy now knows how betting works and is very conversant with all the clubs and when they have spare resource, they go all out into betting all their money out. And these are the people that end up becoming seriously addicted to gambling when they eventually grows up. Catching our kids young require that they be educated to learning the right thing at the right time and in the right way and gambling education is a must topic that needs to be taught in our school or else we end up having young adult or will have the mentality that they can always get a big win through gambling and then thier life will change forever thereby lazying around gambling all day.