Topic: How much gambling can change a person and how low his mind can go. - page 2. (Read 489 times)

Every parent has an important role in protecting their children from bad behavior, don't be too busy with work or anything else that makes us not pay attention to our children, I see that usually children who behave like that usually have problems with their parents who are divorced and always fighting so that there is no harmony in the house, which makes them lack attention and affection so that it is easier for them to associate with bad people such as gambling addicts so that they become addicted to gambling.

If a child commits a crime, no one can be blamed except their parents because they have an important role in their growth until they reach adulthood, because when they are adults they may already be able to determine the direction of their lives, but when they are growing up they experience family disharmony, which is very influential. so that it makes it easier for them to get along with anyone in a bad environment, I don't mean to say that gambling is bad either, it all depends on how a person controls himself when gambling, a child becoming a gambling addict is clearly very difficult to cure and parents have an important role also to help heal him so he doesn't commit criminal acts, let alone steal from other people's homes.

You can't beat your chest to say you would not steal from your family even if you are addicted, of course that is what makes you an addict. An addict does things that they wouldn't do ordinary if they were not acting on any impulse. So if you are not addicted, you may quite well control yourself but not when you are addicted. Many armed robbers wish to stop but because they have such addiction then it takes the grace and third party effort and influence to stop people who are addicted, nothing short of that because an addicttion can lead you into doing an act you won't do if you were not acting under that addiction.

Gambling didn't change people, but they already like that before they know gambling, gambling just make them able to show their true self. If someone dare to steal someone else money, it means even though they're already rich and afford to fulfill their lives, they will steal or take advantage in order to earn more money. Stealing isn't about small or big the amount, but it's because of personality.

When a parent know his son is a thief, there's no way except to teach him. If he's just a friend, he can cut him off.

I agree, that's a more appropriate words to use as people might mistakenly think that gambling is really the reason why some people destroy their lives. Gambling is fun, but the real problem is gambling addiction. Addicts have different effect especially to their family and personally I would never do that to steal from my family even if I get addicted in gambling as that's a big sin, you betrayed the trust of your father.  

It's the same as the education that parents give their children. If they educate their children well, maybe their children will also do something of good value, but outside relationships are also determining because real education is outside relationships. but even so, I think all parents must teach the best for their children, it is impossible for parents to teach their children negative things. I think that only exists in films, not in real life. because as you said, with negative things they can do it secretly without their children knowing, and vice versa, when children are familiar with the outside world they can clearly see what is good and bad so there is a possibility that they will also do it. bad things secretly without their parents knowing.
Not all fathers who like to gamble want their children to gamble too, that's impossible for sure. I think even though the father likes gambling and has a son, they certainly don't want their son to also like gambling because that's not a good goal in life. Parents certainly want the best for their children, whether it's work, attention or affection. Also I think if you really like gambling then don't let our children find out about it. If the child becomes addicted to gambling then I think his parents have failed in educating him.

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No money can satisfied him, everything is always ended hurting him self, deposit the money he already withdraw, raising his bet, and crazy things cannot be satisfied with the amount money he was winning.

The child environment will influence him, he may hang out with friends who also like to gamble. Parental control is needed but it comes back to whether the parents always monitor their child activities or not. Because if not, don't blame other people. Children are entrusted so that good and bad behavior reflects what parents teach them. Now that he is addicted to gambling, the solution to save him is to send the child to community service, to undergo rehabilitation. Parents also have the right to check everything they access using a cellphone, but parents responsibilities are different in each country, for example when they reach the age of 17 they have the freedom to work as they wish, a father job is only up to a certain limit like sending her to school and getting her married. If this has been fulfilled then there will no longer be any burden on parents' responsibilities towards their children.

OP your topic should be "How much gambling addiction..."
It is always sad to read stories like this. I ask myself whose fault is this, the parent's negligence or child delinquency?
Did the parents ignore the warning and notable early signs or were their kids smart enough to hide it?

The problem is so multifaceted that it calls for a reality check. It would be mind-blowing to check the statistics of underaged gamblers. Despite efforts from the government, their parents may have given up but there is always help. Religious leaders, elders, someone who the kid can listen to if they can't listen to their parents can speak to them. It helps.

If you are parent, do not assume that your kids can't become victims of this. Be involved in their lives and let them know it.

It's a bane for a family to have a child like this doing this to his family, it causes depression and worry for the parents, and they have to do something immediate and necessary to avoid the worst-case scenario and that is stealing from other people.

The family should at all times check their child's activities, and make sure that their children grow up to become a good child and useful citizens of their country, both the parents and the families have to protect the welfare of their children from gambling addiction.

Gambling addiction in children is serious and both the government and the family, have to address the issue the government can instruct the gambling platform not to accept minors and to remind their clients to gamble responsibly.

I don't think there is a fast rule about that. Children have a way to pick from what is happening around the house and so if the father or mother has a positive attitude and does a particular thing, the children at home follows that too likewise if they see the parents with bad attitude. Parents who are knowledgeable about this try as much as possible to showcase good attitude to the children or in the presense of the children while they could do other negative attitude slyly where the children won't observe that.

In other words, show a positive attitude to the children so that they won't be exposed to the societal ills on time or vices around their environment, they can learn and choose the way to behave and react or act when they are adults. Fathers who are gamblers always end up having sons who follow his way of life at least one of the sons because they see him gamble too.

It's sad to hear about the child's addiction to gambling that leads them to steal from their own family. It's important for parents to stay vigilant, take action and address the child's addiction before it escalates further. The family should support have an open communication and guide their child to help break free from their addiction and prevent further harm.

Yeah, it's a very hurtful movement for a father who knows about his children's bad addiction and Tells everyone about it, the father is so helpless that he only tells others and loses control of the son. This is a child who is addicted in such a way that he steals things from home without any fear, I saw much older people around 35 to 40 years person who also get the same addiction and they go to a stage where they no longer fulfill the basic needs of a family instead he sells the gold of his wife and loss it in gambling and then he divorces his wife. He was mentally disturbed when he was told that he had lost all his things. So the moral is to keep an eye on your child, your brother because addiction, is not limited to just younger age, and if you feel that he is engage in it on daily basis then admit him to any hospital so that maybe he will understand the effect of it and will come back to his daily routine.

So is this story about stealing, children and gambling or about stealing and children only? If we replace steal to gamble with steal to buy sweets, nothing will change. We will get same father who works hard and act of stealing by child to satisfy his desire. I remember we had similar topic here and the idea of it was the same. The real issue here is a child that does not have enough money for his own needs. I see simple solution here - make him earn money.

It is because incidents like that, the family of those that are addicted eventually can give their backs to them, as even if they deep down still love that person, the addicted is so dissociated with the world that they do not see how much damage they are doing to their family, so the family may be left with no other option but to distance themselves from their loved one, because they cannot really allow themselves to be robbed every single time their family member wants to gamble.

This act of children or gamblers as the case maybe stealing from parents who overworks their self just to keep the family going is becoming alarming.
Couple of months ago I raised this same related thread up about how a child stole his hardworking mother's money just to gamble What is your state on mind if your son stole your money to gamble?.

The emotional outbreaks is not acceptable at all. How would the parents keep having half sleeps in thinking about how it would better the family and working more than their strengths could bear just to make sure they make the kids feel bit comforted and striving on how they can attain better life of living in the nearest future while even when the parents financial portfolio does not seem likely to obtain those great dreams for the kids.

Only conscienceness gambler would desist from stealing to gamble not just from their parents but others too because if someone can steal from their parents to gamble then the child can also steal from other people with same reasons of gambling.

The first question that dropped in my mind after reading this disturbing story is has the father or any member of the family ever gambled and is this young boy aware of it? If the answer is no, then I feel very sorry for this helpless father. But if the father or any other relatives gambled, I would believe that they contributed to his son's gambling problems.

He should gamble if he doesn't have the means to finance his betting. Stealing to gamble is a sign that he is suffering from acute addiction and needs special attention immediately. The best option is for him to stop gambling until he can finance his gambling and able to control his behavior. The father should advise him about the consequences of his actions, and he could take him to a gambling therapist for counseling and medication.

What the father should do first is send the child to the correctional centre. To start with, he should be there for a little while until his brain is back to a little normal. They should also look for and plan for ways that they can use to get him a professional therapist to get him out of that addiction. 
 
Where the parent will make a mistake is if they treat this very lightly as a result of the boy being their child, because if they don't take action right now, it might escalate to where he will be stealing from people outside.
 
That's if he is not already doing that, and when caught, he won't be shown mercy the way the parents do, and the blame won't only be on him but will also escalate to the parent for not giving him a proper way to go.

This is such a sad incident that may happens to a family. first of all, how old is his son? This is where we can see how parents discipline their children, I don't blame the parents for why their child reached the point where the child became like that, but if their child is not of legal age, they can discipline him while he is young yet, but if he is already of legal age, it's not their fault that their son did such a thing, it's just sad because based on your story, it seems like the father has nothing else to do about the evil that his son is doing, he has already robbed them, and maybe because of his addiction to gambling, he will commit a more serious sin so maybe he should talk to him, parents also have the right to scold or reprimand their child even if he is old.

Sad that there's incident like this happening in the family and this means that child doesn't get any proper guidance since he manage to steal some money from his parent. If his mother can able to look up his child and see what activities he or she's engaging on for sure he can do some action to make his child avoid such risky activities.

Their children need a good advice on this since if they let those stealing and gambling still happening for sure they can expect that more worse case scenario will happen.

If they don't want their child to became a criminal when they grow up then as early as they can they should discipline them. There are so many ways on how they can do that and they just need to cooperate with their partners also with other people who can help them in this case.

Gambling is not made for weak personality people who get easily triggered either by their wins or their losses, they get easily influenced and they take decisions impulsively based on moments of rage of desperation, they get addicted to Gambling because they can't control their behaviours.

The story you just told us is very unfortunate because it is difficult to deal with a child who is addicted and on top of that a child who steals money from his parent who works hard to assure a living for him. I'd like to know how old this child is because we can understand better if we know how old he is. Let's say the child is a teenager, in this case we might blame the parents for not supervising their child's behaviour and activities, for letting him drown in such toxic environment and catching those bad habits like stealing money.
But If their child is an adult old enough to know what is bad and what is good, then in this case it is even more sad because as an adult you should already be aware that your parents worked hard day and night for you to live good and to provide your needs, in that age you should try to pay back their efforts and hard work instead of stealing their money.

Stories like that should be taken as an example of how bad can gambling be if it is taken more seriously than it should be taken as just a fun activity where you should spend wise and never spend more than you can afford losing. Following this case, parents should be more aware of their kids activities and should keep an eye on them teaching them the right habits to catch.