A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.
I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?
I think gambling is an addiction like a drug because once people become addicted to gambling they say they can't get out of it no matter how hard they try. When people get completely addicted to gambling, they lose sense of responsibility and wisdom. I don't know what is the correct age for gambling because I have seen many young boys gambling. Gamblers must know how gambling works and acquire sufficient knowledge of gambling strategies.
Gambling requires us to focus on earning our money first because gambling requires ability and money so you should refrain from gambling until you are able to earn it. As the boy you mentioned has not yet learned to earn himself he is dependent on his parents so I think he should come out of gambling and focus on education instead of gambling and fulfill his parents wishes.
I have a friend, because he has 3 children, and one of them gave him 2000usd so that he could keep that money, he disappeared and did not appear again, so he had a very bad time, so bad that he went to a place of those where they tell things to people, it was divine and they gave him a description of some money that they took from him, and they told him that they already spent that money, that that money was taken by a person with a specific description and coniincdie totally with that of one of his daughters, and being very confused because he still doesn't believe that it was her, but I heard her like that, on a personal level I have always said something , raising Children could be very difficult, you see the fact That the children have everything because they cannot do much when they are adults, they often take the easy route and that is what they are not taught, apart from the peroans they give everything to their children. U teach them to get their own things , because it's going to be a problem later.
He actually doesn't know what to do, because they are his children, but it's a mess he's in, these things are delicate, that's why in this particular case of the one they mention in the thread because he's a child, and as You say, it depends on Their Parents, but they still have to learn to fulfill their responsibilities, I personally think in a very radical way, a child needs to have Things busy, studying, doing a sport, with a musical instrument, that he learns to add that learn personal defense, all this is only because a child must be offered as a father, apart from studying languages , so that he reaches a university and knows how to Defend himself well in life, he is already Prepared to face everything he needs from remains in life, for that reason when these search for ways to do the best things you have to take these things in consideration, otherwise anyone can deviate from the path.