Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 8. (Read 3413 times)

However, it is not an easy job to be able to advise teenagers because most of them are in a period of rebellion and tend to be closed off from the advice given by other people regarding what they are doing. That's why as a parent it is also important to take part in providing advice and, if necessary, a firm attitude towards teenagers who do not want to be advised not to gamble at their age. These teenagers are very vulnerable to gambling addiction and this will not only disrupt their psychology, but also how they can focus on their school, therefore as soon as possible they must be given proper education about gambling.

This subject is already out of the bag in terms of controlling the spread of gambling to children, not even as old teens would you have to consider restricting your range to.  Even a ten year old likely has a gambling feature integrated into the games they are playing so are being actively pursed by companies for profit from an early age.  

That whole concept of capturing children as customers  to various schemes online, mobile based and other new markets was here maybe ten years or more ago, people have been slow to only consider the idea of a straight casino as gambling but its moved on from that to something far more elusive.  Not just some companies but multi billion global corporations now include monetization into games, that can be assessed as gambling in quite a few of them.

I totally agree with you because one of the main reasons why youths are getting spoiled in today's age is the use of mobile phones. I am not against the use of mobile phones but if the mobiles are not used properly, youths will definitely destroy their careers. If a student spends 10 hours in mobile phone in 24 hours then how will his career be formed. In the village where I live, 90% of children below 18 use mobile phones while studying. If they use mobile phone while studying then surely their career will be ruined. Moreover, guardians are forced to buy mobile phones for small children because in my village, guardians are even being blackmailed to buy mobile phones.

No teen gamble without knowing as they are grown up and no longer kids that we can say will get influence to try things that they shouldn't be trying. Teens gambling is becoming problematic to the society as more of them are beginning to gamble in search of money. Teens needs to be paid attention to more as they are doing things that'll destroy their life when they're not matured to know how bad gambling can be to their finances. Teens need to be pointed to the right direction as I think most of them gambling are only doing it to get money and they would had been misinformed about things that can give them money this is why they rely on gambling for money and it is a bad habit to have as you're still growing up. Teens need to get proper enlightenment on how bad gambling can be if done wrongly before it gets worst.

right for your own philosophical observation towards children engaging themselves in to gambling but I understand that the major objectives why gambling is having much traffic is due to lack of employment opportunity across some countries and again introduction of people in gambling that makes gambling to be more influential and the more popular across the world so children now who is engaging desperately gambling I'm doing that due to the needed a quick money and they have understood that a gambling is the shortest way of them to make money that is why we continue having addition and gambling so the remedy will come from gambling website for verification before anyone can partake fully in gambling, so kyc verification will be the one to figure out children not to participate in gambling

When it comes to decisions made up then it would really be that depending into someone's maturity and self awareness because if we do speak about teens or to those who are simple young and innocent,then it would really be having that kind of chances or odds that they would really be that become addicted specially if they do able to experience about making money or simply it had been able to poke up their interest because we do know that when it comes to curiosity then everything could really be done.On the moment that you would be dealing up with gambling on which making money will be the priority then it would be making such desperation.

This is why proper guidance would really be that important specially to our own kids on the moment that they are on adolescent stage on which curiosities would really be at peak into these kind of times.Somehow as a parent on which not everything could be seen out and this is why it's hard to monitor them anytime,that's why it couldn't be always be blamed out to anyone.

You have to understand that news organizations love building controversy, one week it will be teens gambling, the next week it'll be pregnant mothers vaping, the week after it will be angry pensioner vandals and so on. When you recite things like a "90% increase" then you really at the very least have to give a time frame, are you comparing the last year, the last decade, the last month? There could be reasons that need addressing, but there could also be things like the scope of what falls into the gambling definition has now expanded. Maybe it is the rise and prevalence of the gambling sites in the USA that have risen due to loosening restrictions, but the rest of the world has stayed very similar - so the fault is within a specific country that is not properly regulated.

A person regardless of their age has a responsibility towards themselves to try to pick the very best outcomes they can, a teen knows enough about the world to make judgments about what is best for them and whether what they are doing is correct or not, after all if a teen did not knew this information then why do they hide the fact they are gambling? Because they know it is wrong, so they are purposely doing something they know they should not be doing, and as such no matter their age they should be held responsible for their actions.

Teenagers and the stage of adolescent is one of the most sensitive stage for any child to adult phase and a lot of things happening and I think it's because this stage of life we live now, money is now normal thing you see people have around. I mean, even in our time, there were booming in casino and physical betting place but there was challenge because you don't get funding. You hardly have access to money unless it's something you really need probably for schools but today, it's a different world we live in.

Parent are also failing to do there job, it's there responsibility to look after every teenager even though privacy is needed. There are ways parent can track record of transaction history of their kids, no way my kid is going to be smart than me unless I choose to let go or don't react but I will definitely know when my kid is doing some things that are not what we agree to be done and as long they live under my roof, they must obey me.

Well, I guess that I've forgot about that they're given some allowances and their parents don't know where they have actually spending it.

So it means that virasog is right that they're being funded by their unaware parents. Whether the description is that they're not stealing from their parents.

It only means that it's still not their parent but they are given the rights on how to spend them.

Teens today are aware of Venmo Teen accounts, it's all they need and they can fund themselves already by asking for some digital USD from their parents. Parents are unaware of what the teen may do to the money and as a sort of pocket money for a student they give money. Teens must have digital money these days, it's necessary.
These teenagers don't have to steal from their parents. But this is not the problem, its if the teenagers continue to gamble using those apps and parents have no idea they are doing it.

While government can help with this kind of issue along with the help of the platforms from where we can download the apps. We might just be the problem too since we advocate privacy too much.

When much of our teens are engaged too much on gambling, then it becomes a serious concern for us to be able to take a cognitive step against them because they are having more open access to the use of online gambling through many media, the first is that they will not gamble as it is been expected of them, also, how would they be able to afford making the best of gambling opportunity when they are still at teenage stage, they may never realize the value of money they were going to need and how to source for having more to be used as well for the same purpose of gambling, except they passed through that stage.

I don't think that these kids and teens are being funded by their parents. Just like me in the past, I snatch money of my parents to do stuff that I like since I don't have a job and I don't have money to do it.

So, I think that most of them are doing that. Getting their parents money without their knowledge for them to be able to gamble.

The parents task is vital with how they're going to understand that gambling at a young age is risky for their growth because they might be used to it.

I do not know who is the youngest gambler but one thing is for sure, we should not blame any of these kids, children and teenagers gambling online because they are being funded by their parents to do so. Gambling needs money and these young people are not at the earning stages of their life.
This means that if they are gambling, the sole responsibility of this lies with their parents and they are accountable if in future it has a bad impact on these children's education, health and more importantly habits.

No doubt for that because with the development of the technologies and the internet helps teenagers to knows and search for what they wants from the internet. They have smartphones that helps them to knows many things including about gambling and register themselves in certain casino. They can deposit using many ways so they can start playing gambling and the best is they can playing gambling in everywhere they wants.

They don't have to tells many people about what they do and can hide their gambling activity from their parents. This is what makes many teenagers becomes addicted to gambling because their parents doesn't knows that they often playing gambling. While casino will lets them playing gambling and as long as they can deposit the money, the casino will gives enjoyment to them and the hopes to wins some money.

In addition to what you have said, there are now several play-to-earn games that are similar to gambling because they bring the money consciousness to children. Furthermore, children are becoming so financially independent these days because of peer influence and societal pressure, the means by which they make the money is immaterial and gambling seems to hold so much potential and this is why children are getting more involved in gambling. It will be difficult to change because online gambling have changed everything and make gambling more accessible.

Apart from the two reasons mentioned by you, there are many other reasons by which youth and young adults are attracted to gambling.
Among the mentioned conditions of gambling, it is mentioned that under 18 years cannot participate in gambling but it is mentioned in gambling but it is relaxed in terms of implementation i.e. KYC verification is not done because generally youth below 18 years are participating more in gambling.
As there is no form of government ban on participating in gambling, youths are more and more involved in gambling.  Stricter laws might have reduced youth participation to a large extent.

Yup, that's the point or something that triggers the wider spread of gambling, none other than because now the digital world is increasingly developing and also most people are dependent on cellphones to access various social media, where I also feel the same thing, maybe I feel happy. or comfortable when browsing on social media, and this activity can really bring us various positive and negative things, increasing insight may be one of the positive sides and gambling may be one of the negative impacts which everyone, including children who are still young being a minor could be one of the victims.

On the other hand, the internet, especially social media, has become one of the biggest places for online casinos to carry out various promotions, one of which is that they often use the services of streamers to promote their casino sites, and in this situation there are no exceptions for the audience who see them, or meaning the casinos do it. promotions with the aim of everyone who sees them, including minors, meaning I quite agree with your idea that casinos do not check whether there are underage children who are affected or involved in their casinos or no, the point is that anyone involved in the casino if they fulfill the gambling requirements in the sense of bringing money to gamble then yes they are customers who will have two possibilities of winning or losing.

I would like to add to what has been said that children are often interested in e-sports; this is a gaming discipline that did not exist before. 
And if at an early age football and hockey are not so interesting, then children enthusiastically watch the battles and battles of teams in Dota 2 and counter-strike 2. And this is the first step to betting on the betting platform.  This is another factor that children have now become interested in betting.

Even the younger ones than the teenagers have smartphones now. Heck, I've seen a 2-year-old kid already watching different videos on a popular streaming service and his/her parents cannot even take the phone back from him/her.
The plastic cards/credit cards on the other hand, I have not seen yet and I know I won't give that kind of thing to my kids because it's not his money that will be used. Also, I don't want them to get used to credit cards and I will teach them that I have not used such a thing from the day I worked until.
The reason is that you are just feeding the banks with the interest rates and it's going to be a problem in the future.

I think what we should be worried more about is the local cash applications because they are letting their users get credit as long as they fill up some of the information. It would shock us when the bills come in someday or an authority knocks on our door to tell us how much our kid has borrowed.