Topic: I think gambling is inbuilt, kids don't learn it anywhere, they do it! - page 10. (Read 1623 times)

There are many types of gambling and the examples you mentioned are included in gambling but often people who do it do not consider it to be gambling because they are only done for fun when they are with friends and so on and the bets you mentioned do not need to be learned or children need to see examples first until finally, they followed it because betting like that was something that anyone could do.
Banning gambling advertising will certainly reduce it, especially when the government can do it correctly and analyze each of their actions to see how far they are successful so that when the level of success has not reached what was targeted, the government can try other methods until they reach the target.
Gambling is not hereditary like a disease because there are children who gamble but their parents do not and vice versa, however, parents who gamble are known by their children to be very likely to see their children later also gambling.

There are countries where gambling is actually banned. Most of these are those countries where gambling is prohibited by the religion more than by the law.

Just like no one can ban cryptocurrencies, it is impossible to ban online gambling sites but when the government publicly announce that gambling is not allowed in the country, you will see a dent in the number of people accessing the gambling sites and playing. Not everyone wants to bypass the laws and do whatever they like. Some may stop gambling and obey government laws. These prohibited gambling rules definitely have some impact, if not 100% effective.

Currently, we very often see people gambling, both young and old, so those who are still young will follow the example of older people when they gamble. By banning advertising, I think this will reduce the possibility of the younger generation gambling. You are right, the government and society must monitor each other so that gambling activities can be eliminated because very few people can gamble without having any problems.

I dont think any nation can actually put a ban on gambling and it will be effective because  millions of people are already addicted to the game,and they can't come out of it.This will just be a mere threat ,so that the people who looked as if their lifes depended on Gambling will try and be responsible for good.Another reason why I think  gambling will be impossible to stop is because gambling is now something people do online,it doesn't only require one to go to a gambling center or cansino shop before one will be able to gamble,anyone can gamble these days with their phone from their house,and that is what is actually making gambling gather more fans than losing them.

They are not stopping because they can't they just want a reduction if they will not restrict the number will be too high and they will have issues in the future

Not only hereditary but inherent, people can easily learn and be attracted to gambling if platforms are easily accessible and this will result in the increase in people playing and losing money in casinos

Children learn based on what they see, hear and from them it just developed so if they see their parents or older people playing and betting with each other they easily pick this up and learn easily because its already inherent in them

let's accept the fact that we can't monitor our kids 24/7. and they have a lot of people surrounding them, school, playmates and others. so even if we say, we are not showing any indication that we are on gambling, they will encounter this at one point of their lives. so whatever you instill in them will be their weapon in combatting potential influence of this activity. they can try the game but we are hoping that they should know their limits and won't fall to the addiction phase.

They maybe influenced by the movies they have watched most likely, since gambling ads may be rare to a common TV channels.
Betting on something coming from an argument is kind of common situation, it's not like it's purely for gambling purposes, but it's primarily to get that other person be convinced that you are somehow telling that truth because you are not afraid to put a bet on it. So, it's like putting a bet when someone is against your idea or thoughts is kind of justifying for yourself.
Gambling ads coming from the casinos is still hits a lot more different than this, so yeah I also disagree that gambling habit in-built.

I think it is also part of the popular culture which both children and adults adsorb from social media, Television and even folk stories.
If you try to recall, you could easily remember yourself as a child watching cartoons and there was some specific episode where the protagonists bet against each other, for some silly reason.

There is where children learn about gambling from, right in front of the eye of their parents.
I can recall watching several examples of betting and gambling on shows like Kennan & Kel, Spongebob, KND, etc.  Before you notice, your kids already discovered what a bet is and how they are supposed to work. It only takes two kids in the school to know and they will start to bet on frivolous things, which are at first harmless.

This gambling activity might be hereditary if they see there old people participating on such activities since they might think that what those old people do is really good to them since they are been expose to much on gambling. But since the Australian government prohibits that advertisement I guess that can actually help those young or even old people about gambling since once in future that there's totally zero ads for it those people will forget about its existence and find another alternative way that can entertain their selves.

 Government effort to combat that is really good and now its up for their parents on how they guide their children since if they are also been engaged with this activity and hiding it to authority then we can expect that the same thing will happen to their children's.

Gambling is extensive, one can afford to learn everything in just a day or week, but it will take months and years before one would become a professional and experienced gambler in the system. However that's simply not my idea and motives to gamble, rather seeking for innovative ideas to open business that would extend to become one of the consistent reliable stream of income for me, more better than depending on gambling that's yet to give me good results. Learning gambling is not difficult as composed, this is the modern technology age and there's really enough to learn about the system. The present generation kids are intellectual when it involves doing the necessary operations of today, they're fast to learn about gambling without anyone lecturing them about it.

From @OP's story, we see children are used to saying things like Let's bet easily. We don't know where they got those words from, but usually, they come from one or several children who are used to seeing and hearing those words from the adults around them. They then look for the meaning and use it on their friends. And look, they have known about gambling since they were little because their friends already knew about it and invited them to play. Especially if they have a smartphone at an early age, they might see many advertisements they shouldn't watch.

Apart from that, lottery games are installed in shops to attract children to play them. As parents, we often don't realize that we are allowing our children to play with luck, which is gambling. Gambling can easily enter our brains, make us remember it well, and play several gambling games that we didn't even realize we had when we were little.

It's very easy to learn gambling, since we can easily get people around us gambling and we are seing them doing so, we can also take responsibility of gambling by ourselves without anyone's influence when we give attention to the learning procedures by ourselves.

This means that gambling is not hard to learn be it for children or adult but it nit a good suggestion to let children got exposed to gambling while they are still young, we could get them exposed to other things aside gambling because they will learn about gambling when they attain the stage to, wether being taught or not.

This is why as much as possible i dont really let my kids to know about what money is as much as i could or into the age that they arent that wary about money so that it wont really be that creating that kind of intent to have in mind on getting specially if they have encountered something that could potentially give them money because once that curiosity sparks out or something that do talks about interest then this is where engagement would really be that tending to start. This is why as long as they are really that young and isnt exposed about money then i do really make things to be that way. It is also significant that proper parenting will really be crucial but since there are things which are inevitable then there's always that time that they've been aware about on how money works and how it could be obtained.

It is really just that normal that people would really be having that curiosity on things that they would be able to encounter in front of them.Even if we do say that it wont really be talking about
gambling or simply just on other things then this would really be molding that kind of impression that you would really be liking on trying to engage with it no matter what.
This isnt really just that limited on this space but rather in other spaces too.

As a child, I might not really recall where we got the information about gambling. But I suspect that we learned it from our seniors who might be gamblers. I remember seeing them betting when they were arguing and it is possible that as we watched them, we began to adopt the same pattern to our own disagreements.

I know that many behaviors can be transferred to offspring through genes but I have never closely studied about hereditary gambling behavior. Although research in this area is really scanty a study reviewed by Getaway Foundation titled Is Gambling Hereditary? affirmed that gambling genes can be transferred from parents to children. Sometimes scientific research might have some validity and reliability loopholes, so there is a need to read further to verify the findings of this work. But I can attest to the fact that the majority of gamblers learned this behavior from the environment. Peer influence and massive advertisement of gambling services are the main agents of gambling socialization.

Gambling is not inbuilt as no one is born with gambling habit. Do you think it's possible for children to grow up and started gambling on their own without seeing or hearing about it elsewhere? It's never possible. It's possible that children have a natural tendency to engage in menial betting even if they haven't been explicitly taught to do so but I still hold the belief that gambling is learned behaviors that is influenced by factors like socialization and environment. Children can not just comes up with such idea on their own without having to hear it directly or indirectly from the elders. A 10 years old children of nowadays are not too small to know what gambling is all about if they found themselves in such environment where gambling is rampantly discuss or display. Kids are easily influenced with negative attitude than right ones.

Those children would know gambling in one way or the other, they go to school, they hang out with their friends, so in one way or the other they must have heard about it, and to also know how it's been done.
If you have children, take out time to observe them or ask them some in-depth questions, you will be amazed to see hear things they know. But I still don't think gambling is hereditary, as gambling is something parents learn on their own, there is not a biological proof to show that offsprings  could inherit gambling traits from their parents.

I disagree with this fact...
ain't not way a kid's gonna be able to play on any of these games if they're not mentored....either by ADs/video assistance..etc
Secondly, the ability to make predictions and stake games on preferred divisions, under several leauge is never in-built. They may be influenced by the ads and everything buh, they still need to learn about everything.

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At the same time, I don't support gambling for young age.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Gambling is inherent in us it is something we learn adapt and develop, since time immemorial we have been gambling because it is part of us and part of our feelings, the government can't stop people from gambling they can restrict platforms so they cannot lay openly and become addicted because it's our nature to be attracted on something that we are rewarded.
Gambling creates a feeling of excitement and satisfaction of conquering something, which is why the gambling industry is a multi-billion industry because it satisfies the needs of humanity, and that is the feeling of getting rewarded big for a smaller sum.

But this part also has a destructive effect on children who grow up and start gambling with money in my opinion. Usually children like to compete and you don't have to offer them any incentive besides the fact that they can win the competition. Whether it is some board game or running or even rolling the dice, since we are talking about gambling here. They have an intrinsically driven motivation to win the competition either against themselves when the time is stopped for a run, or when they win against someone else. Once later in their lives when money comes into play, this intrinsic motivation starts to disappear. It is not the same fun anymore when there is no skin in the game besides their own will to win the competition and their proud.

Every child knows and loves games. I believe that this fact does not change, even when the child has become an adult. And that is basically 99% of what gambling is. Playing games, having fun. Although there is also the part about having to give up money in order to experience this "fun". Although I am more than sure that for most people, losing is never fun. In my own personal experience it is quite frustrating. But as adults, we understand the nature and risks of gambling games, so there cannot be any blame placed upon gambling itself.