Topic: Inherited gambling - page 7. (Read 3409 times)

Gambling cannot be genetic, sometimes a few traits are not liked by offsprings and they don't follow their parents.
Like alcohol, gambling, smoking, drugs and sloth. Excess of everything is bad and the results are very devastating. So a balance is important.

I can attest to this as my father was also a gambler, that made his son a gambler too. But being an addict to gambling, i think its more on the loss of individual's control, and not because it flows on the genes. And eventually, addiction leads into something more dangerous that can certainly ruin the whole personality of the gambler. That is why we should never gamble for profits, but only for entertainment purposes. 

I wouldn't be so sure about that sir. If you're a gambler you can also inspire your child, and if him/her likes it, they will start to gamble like you, and this should be avoided, like the smoke, many people start to smoke in

young age because of their parents (they see it, they see the way that they moved hands while smokin ecc.).

As far as I know alcoholism can be transmitted on a genetic level as this disease affects genes, destroying them. You can easily notice it in families which have an alcoholic father in the head of the family and live in poverty. This is unlikely to happen with gambling as it only affects a person's psychology. So if you are into gambling it does not mean that your children will have the same hobbies. 

Biologically, gambling is not a trait. Even if I have a deep passion for it, that doesn't mean my children will share it. It would be absurd to argue that drinking is a trait that can be passed down from parent to child, gambling is something you can easily give up, and if you quit before your kid is born, he or she won't know anything about your relationship and gambling. unfortunately, society and environmental factors are the primary problems with underage gambling today.

Children are motivated by money, and they pick up lessons quickly from what they observe. Since gambling often culminates in big wins for players, children may want to go into it if they are not properly supervised.  Every parent has a duty to prevent their kids from gambling until they are old enough to take responsibility for their own decisions and also restrict them, where necessary.

I don't think that a father who gamble would want their kids to be a gamblor when they grow up. A addicted drinker also would not want their kids  to be an alcohol addict - These are not inherited traits. My father was a chain smoker and my brother hated it - and he dont smoke at all. My father was a gambler and my sibling don't like gambling because of the fights they have seen among our parents.

It's not that common to follow in your father's footsteps. Out of my friends literally none is in the same trade as their fathers. They did not finish the same schools, they are interested in different subjects and work in different areas. Like I have 3 friends whose fathers used to be construction workers. 1 was a designer, one was an architect and one was a builder and their sons are in IT, and one works in the TSA.

When it comes to habits, I know a number of people whose parents smoked and they don't smoke.

Whether you do what your parents did is a random thing that depends on your character, life choices, the bond with your parents and many more.

I think parents don't want their children to be involved in gambling, let alone inherit it. This is really ironic if there is something like that, but what I experienced I never showed my gambling game in front of the children because they can't know I'm afraid they will be involved later and become addicted.

My gambling game has never been opened by anyone, let them know for themselves when they grow up, but if they are still children, of course it is still under the supervision of their parents, I emphasize that I do not want to inherit it. It is too risky if I tell my children how my gambling journey was.

The medical professional had already confirmed this with their study.  So how can we refute their findings?  Ever heard the phrase, "runs in their blood"?  Well, we heard this when one child did the same thing that the father did.  So basically if the father is a gambler there is a tendency for his child to be a gambler too even though this kid never saw his father in an actual gambling session.  



Mind over body, if there is a will there is a way.

They can't for this kind of experience only be understood personally and it really hard for them to digest it in their minds without putting them in the same situation as to how gambling works. But as a concerned parent, you could always try the low-risk advice for your children and you can try safe methods to educate them and to make them understand how will it become a threat in their adulthood in they became addicted to it in their early life.

The question is whether parents want  their child is involved in gambling or do excessive gambling? I think that gambling is such a game that even though parents play it themselves, they do not want their children to inherit this habit. However, if you play openly then children will watch you gamble and they will develop an interest in this. If you want that your children do not inherit this gambling habit, you should not gamble in front of your children.

Although genetic inheritance which is a daily habit or trait carried out by his father, not all children are dominant to his father, his mother also inherits genes much better than his father, Although his father was a gambling addict, a small percentage of him inherited the traits, intelligence and habits of his father, more to the character of his mother.

If his mother was a gambling addict, that was more dangerous.

Of course there are some cases, there is a saying that 'a coconut doesn't fall far from the stem' which means, there are some children whose father's genes tend to be almost 99% of their father's, if his father is a gambling addict, Surely the child has the same nature and behavior as his father, who must be blamed, of course, the child's father, things like this will certainly cause big problems for the mentality of the child himself, the child's addiction to gambling is greater than that of his father and anyone else.

But in cases such as genetics inherited by both parents, the intelligence of the child affects the mother's chromosome 2x more intelligently than the father's, although the father of a child gambling addict can think of the best for himself, not many cases of gambling are based on genetic inheritance, which is worse promiscuity.

If parents can explain the dangers of gambling to their children and don't show that their parents are gamblers in front of their children, perhaps their children will not try to approach gambling. But unfortunately, many parents show it in front of their children and even openly play dice gambling at home. This triggers their children's curiosity to try to play with their friends and in the end, they keep playing until they are adults. And this is what makes many adult children continue to play gambling and invite their friends from the same environment.

Well we cannot argue in science the finding is not familiar to many of us, but it's good prevention for parents who were once hooked on gambling, it will not harm us if we take these findings and I agree that surroundings and role models are the easiest path to becoming a gambling addict but the findings is another option for people to look on why people become addicted to gambling.

I think it's not specifically gambling that is inherited but it's about the mentality or how they think because being smart/intelligent can also be inherited but it's 100 percent true that if you live or grow in place where gambling is rampant, you will adopt a gambler's habit.

• It was the individual that will question himself on why he became an addict and when he found out that it can be hereditary he will blame his parents or their ancestors. For us, it's wrong to put a blame on someone else without knowing the real story first.
• Why not? It might be hereditary but there are hereditary conditions that are being cured permanently by applying the known methods that exist today.
• It can be but it's also possible for them to rework their mentality to not become an addicted gambler.

however many experts argue that genetic factors can greatly influence a person to become an addict, any addict including gambling.  although what you say can be justified. a person who has inherited the gambler's gene can also refuse not to gamble this is normal and there are many reasons one of the examples you have mentioned. environment, education, intellectuals also play an important role. back on the topic of this thread, I don't think this conclusion is absolute.

I also don't believe with the inheritance factor to be addicted in gambling. It is more on the environment where you grew up. Because I have seen a lot of people who hate gambling because their parents are gamblers. So they want to change their lives for the better and don't want to follow the footsteps of their parents. So for me, it depends on the person himself. It is not about genetic.

Yes, because inheritance occurs when parents give something whatever it is to children with the message conveyed, but gambling is different. They or their parents play gambling, then the children see and then imitate the gambling activity itself, which means that there is no inheritance whatsoever and there is no genetic gambling. This case is purely an activity that occurs in the surrounding environment so that children do it too, and therefore I agree that gambling that grows in a family is not inherited and also not genetic.

Maybe it was because of someone's curiosity that made him sink into gambling even deeper that it looked like it was hereditary when it wasn't. But if a father who likes to gamble shows his gambling activity, his son can be curious and maybe he will ask his friends what his father is doing. Sooner or later, he will try to find out more, which can lead him to start gambling. No one knows if the father and son played gambling because each of them hid their activities. But there is also someone who likes to gamble even though neither father nor other family members play gambling. So gambling is not necessarily because of hereditary.

yes, I mean, just because it can be passed down through genes does not mean you would become a gambling addict. becoming addicted to gambling(or to anything) would most likely take time even if you have a higher chance of becoming addicted because of your gene.

pretty sure it can. I don't really see any reason why it wouldn't work for them.

I don't know.