Topic: Does having children have an influence on gambling habits? - page 5. (Read 1964 times)

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I agree with the both of you on your opinion about gambling responsibility and having children being an addiction to responsible gambling,  this is true any ways but the fact that the gamblers have a choice to make wether or not to be a responsible gambler still matters in some and few instances,  because some of the cases that we have seen are all involve with people who have families being the major hit when discussing gambling addictions.

Much more also we need to settle between wether being responsible have anything do with the individual family statuses, because gambling is all about rules regulations and criteria and this all can be done by anyone regardless of they marital status or number of dependence.

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Rightly said one should never continue gambling by harming someone in the family. All parents want the best for their children and should spend more time with their children than gambling. Think about the downsides before gambling we love to follow others. We judge what we see around us accordingly but sometimes I can't control myself when I can't stop gambling.

Am not married yet, am not having much responsibilities to take care of, but when you are single, the lifestyle which you will be leaving will completely different from how you will be leaving when you are since. When you are married, you are no longer alone, so anything which you will be doing, you have to think twice before making the decision. If you are married, you will have to reduce your allocation for gambling because you have other things which you are suppose to take care of, whenever you are having some free amount of money, if you are single, you might end up spending it on gambling, but when you are married, you will look for something else to do with the money, rather than gambling with it.

I don't seem to understand what you guys are saying, children are blessings and nothing will change that. It is we who should plan our lives and not blame it on innocent children. As couples, they should know the number of children they want to born and that must be measurable to many factors which include their financial capability. If you know you can bear only one or two and give them the best support in all ramifications, why not stick to it? But having the financial capacity of 2 and bearing 5 children means you are wicked. So it is all about us and the right plan we have in every situation.

As for gambling, I do not see this as a must, you should quit it if it is causing you to lose money while your family suffer. That is what I see in your post which is not supposed to be so, it is never a must, so we should take it as such. And if you are such that is kin to gambling, if you are gambling and may not be able to do without it (though it is wrong and you should seek help), perhaps, you gamble with $500 a month, why not force it down to $50? By that, you would have saved a whopping $450 for the month even as you did not deprive yourself of what you like doing. Above all, gambling is not a do-or-die thing, your family must come first if you are responsible and I believe that quitting gambling entirely for the sake of your family is the simplest sacrifice you can make if you truly love them.

I won't even think twice!

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

You are right. Once a man is married their should be adjustments on how he behaves in every aspect of lifestyle to not affect his marriage.
It is so wrong for a married man with family to think responsibility can be solve by playing gambling to gain profit. A family man having this mentality is adding more responsibility to himself because looking at gambling as a solution for responsibility is a way of losing more money to gambling. As a married man it is not right to depend so much in gambling because it can never solve problem when you need the gain in it,  instead gambling will make you to lose more. Gambling wins comes as a surprise, no need to have so much expectation of getting a profit all times.

When we are married and have children, we have to change all our lifestyles and do not continue like we were doing were single. we have to manage money strictly. Gambling is the same as hobby, when you are single and have a hobby that drains your money, you have to reduce it when you get married. maybe you used 50% your salary to gambling, but when you have married you must reduce it about 25%, except if you have additional income like signature campaign, maybe you can use it in full of them so that your main salary remains intact.

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

It depends, there are those who are aware of their responsibilities and change their behavior, but there are also those who think that their gambling is not a problem at all. But I think that it comes back to the individual, in most cases it really changes the gambler's behavior because they think that their responsibility to the child is greater, so like it or not they need to change their gambling behavior.

Yes that's right it all depends on how they think, some are short minded and some are long minded, or what it means is that there are some people who don't think about the bad possibilities that might happen someday and some who don't think in that direction at all, but overall still gambling can be a trigger for problems in household relationships when you are no longer able to control yourself.

As for responsibility, I think bringing gambling into a situation where you already have full responsibility to provide for your family will only add to your burden because you have to meet two allocations of money which are to provide for your family's needs and also to fund your gambling habit, sometimes a person can experience a change in himself to be very irresponsible in his household affairs because gambling has a lot of temptations that can make a person fall into it unconsciously and eventually experience a change in behavior.

Responsible gamblers will not trying to break their own rules because they knows what risks that they will gets. They gets the bad experiences before and will not wants to have the same experiences.

Having a children will makes gamblers knows that they must become responsible playing gambling because they have the important matters that they must gives priority. Gambling will not becomes their priority because gambling is just a fun activity in their spare time so they will not playing gambling too often.

It depends, there are those who are aware of their responsibilities and change their behavior, but there are also those who think that their gambling is not a problem at all. But I think that it comes back to the individual, in most cases it really changes the gambler's behavior because they think that their responsibility to the child is greater, so like it or not they need to change their gambling behavior.

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

that makes sense, if we can divide our time well maybe everything will be fine. I think we should have time together for family, including with our own children, because it is impossible when we have a child but we don't have time to be together. because of course our children need attention from their parents, this can also determine their future, because many children lack attention from their parents so they have different personalities from children in general. Even though we like to gamble, when we have children we have to be able to adjust the time for ourselves and our family.
If we really have a small income then we should be aware of not gambling, let alone forcing ourselves to continue gambling. It's true what you said to stop or reduce gambling behavior and habits and then pay more attention to the child. I myself will do things that I think are good, but what is clear is that they will not harm other people, including my own children or family.

The first thing that comes to my mind about cases like this is that it depends on our economic situation, if we have children and we are still able to divide our time, pay for or take care of children properly, gambling habits in my opinion can still be continued and because of that I also don't think it will affect anything.
Unlike the case with people who have little income and if they insist on gambling, of course taking care of children will be more difficult because they do not have the costs and time because they have to work harder to get more income to cover their needs, therefore it is important to realize that stopping gambling behavior and focusing on children is much better in taking solutions, so the conclusion depends on your own situation, because that will determine what kind of action you have to take so that everything looks good.

Responsible gamblers will avoid or curtail their gambling habits since they have an obligation to take care of and support their families at all times.

A family man who is addicted to gambling and bets excessively without prioritizing his family is not one to be proud of when it comes to his financial situation because he sees gambling as a source of income to support himself and his family. A bad move, which I am sure of, that doesn't end well

The first thing that comes to my mind about cases like this is that it depends on our economic situation, if we have children and we are still able to divide our time, pay for or take care of children properly, gambling habits in my opinion can still be continued and because of that I also don't think it will affect anything.
Unlike the case with people who have little income and if they insist on gambling, of course taking care of children will be more difficult because they do not have the costs and time because they have to work harder to get more income to cover their needs, therefore it is important to realize that stopping gambling behavior and focusing on children is much better in taking solutions, so the conclusion depends on your own situation, because that will determine what kind of action you have to take so that everything looks good.