Topic: Is it proper for younger ones to gamble? (Read 1765 times)

These rules are only effective in physical casinos and not their online counterparts. Their validation can be avoided by a teenager who clicks 18+ instead of under 18. They gain good access immediately and enjoy their gaming moments like there's no restrictions.

Even when casino asks for KYC, they can be smart enough to use the identity cards of their parents or wards for the validation too, so that is no very efficient way to curb their involvements in gambling online. It can only be possible by parental controls. The parents are negotiating their duties to curb the excesses of their wards and the worst scenarios are that most parents aren't IT literate, else they would've been informed about parental control of the emails installed into such accounts which sends a report of your child's activities on his phone tho you as the guardian or rooting the phone to prevent the child from accessing unwanted sites. That's the only effective way for now to be in the know of your child's activities and regulate it.

In this digital era, I think children can gamble easily when they are free to use their smartphones, because when they have their own smartphones, of course they will be able to easily access anything including gambling. Thus, I am not sure if there are still children who still wear school uniforms and then enter physical casinos, because of course they will not be able to enter them because of the age restrictions. But, if they can still visit physical casinos with their school uniforms, then there is a problem with the gambling rules in that place or maybe, the security forces do make it free to be visited by many people including school children.

In this era of increasingly advanced technology, things that we don't expect often appear before our eyes in various ways. This is really heartbreaking for teenagers who are still in school uniforms to sit and gamble casually without anyone being afraid. If you let them continue sitting and gambling, you should be able to give them advice or ask them to leave the place.

Not all places this can happen because of how government regulations handle similar things. In gambling, special rules are also applied for those aged 18 years and over who can place bets.

Gambling is not at all right for minors, gambling requires a certain age. Moreover, gambling is prohibited for people under the age of 18+ in every casino and it is mandated by the government. But still people nowadays even people under 18+ years of age have got into gambling and they are constantly gambling with the hope of winning money. I think those who take refuge in gambling at a young age will never reach a good stage in the future because they will surely suffer psychological damage if they gamble at this time when they are studying and building their future. And when a person gambles from a young age he cannot control himself rather he becomes addicted to gambling due to which he faces many losses in the future, so gambling at a young age should not be done at all.

Of course, betting is beyond casinos and the younger ones below 18 years can bet between themselves. I could remember when I was 8 years, i and my elder sister will bet on whatever we are doing because it was betting was new to us and a kind of fun.

We don't bet with money but with our snacks. It was when I started gambling that i realized what we were doing then was gambling. However, it is not ideal for young people below 18 to involve in gambling because they might gamble in the wrong way.

It's not ok for young ones and teenagers to gamble because gambling is not for the fickle mind. You need to be mature enough to tell yourself when to stop gambling and the amount you budget for gambling whether it's for fun or not. Even adults battle with gambling addiction, talk more of teenagers who still have a lot of hormonal drives.

There should be age restrictions, so these young ones can grow, earn and have a home before looking at the ways of gambling. Teenagers are responsibilities of their parents and guardians which simply implies that they don't have a souce of income, so where do they get money for gamble? Does that mean they save from the stipends they are given to feed properly in school for game instead of using it for something more meaningful.

 You'll see if they are allows to play from a young age, they might be distracted from what's important in life at the moment which is studying and growing to be resourceful in the society.

such thinking will only exist when you reach your current state. where you have played enough in casinos and many betting games. you may have experiences that you can share with your child, but the child's acceptance is sometimes different. I am also worried about the child's psychological ability which has not been able to reach that level of understanding. especially if you live in an environment where gambling is considered something bad.
those of us who have gambled for years, of course know how gambling works.

It is better to deal with the concept of “child” according to the definition in most legal legislations, which define the period of childhood as the period extending from the age of 13 to the age of 18. Anyone under the age of thirteen is legally incapable of discernment and cannot be held criminally accountable.

Back to our topic, I think that preventing children from gambling is a complex challenge that involves many social, psychological and technological factors. children/adolescents are exposed to multiple influences, including media and social media, which contribute to shaping their perceptions of gambling and making quick money. The attractive nature of games that involve betting, especially when they include exciting interactive and visual elements, makes it difficult for children to resist these practices. And with the emergence of digital crypto-based casinos, access to gambling platforms has become easier and faster, which increases the risk of children taking advantage of loopholes in regulatory systems. These platforms use advanced privacy-sensitive technologies, making it difficult to track users’ identities and verify their ages, as children can simply bypass the restrictions imposed.

I think that efforts must be combined between governments, parents and civil society organizations to find effective measures to protect children from the dangers of gambling, including education and awareness of the potential risks and strict enforcement of laws related to the legal age of betting.

Yes, visual explanation plus your comments is the best you can do to prevent your from gambling before certain age.


Their friends will be influencing them, no doubt about that. What's important is that you should be raising your kid the way that he/she doesn't want to have such friends who will teach them to gamble for big profits at all. Usually such people are bad in many ways, not only in understanding gambling.

I think it can be done to prevent children from gambling, it's just a matter of awareness of the adults around them to talk about and even invite young people to play gambling, some neighborhoods can still be managed very well.

But the most difficult thing today is when the marketing of gambling advertisements is on social media, which children are already using social media today, even from starting junior high school or worse elementary school, parents must play a more active role in their children so that they do not fall into it prematurely, their age is still small and has no income and already entering gambling will be very bad for the development of the child, but on average what I see today is that parents let young people use their cellphones and never control them.

In some ways adults also occupy lots of spaces amongst the list of addicts in the society. It's only tough for the younger people to escape gambling conversations, adverts, and news flying all around them. However, players also need to privatize their gambling activities both in words and action. Such things shouldn't be allowed around kids. The children are already prohibited from using such services. Hence, it's crucial that players also respect them and not lure kids into the game. When a person grows up and having seen the effects of gambling can go ahead to, decide and consider going into the game.

That's not weird to see young people playing gambling because in my place, they playing gambling with their friends and even they have one place to gather and playing gambling together. They really vulnerable, immature and can gets addicted to gambling so that's why adult people or parents must supervise their children and educate about the risks of gambling so their children will not playing gambling.

Children will not knows what gambling so they can gets addicted to gambling, especially if their parents doesn't knows if they gambling. Although their children knows gambling from their friends, they will not trying to playing gambling because of the risks behind gambling. Parents must shows them that many good things that they can do so their focus will just do that good things without thinks about doing something that can harms their life.

What is young to you? 6 years old or 16 ? 6 yo kid is indeed vulnerable, immature and see world through pink glasses. 16 is mature enough. At that age young people now everything in theory already, but lack experience and practice. What wrong can happen if a kid knows what is gambling? What, his world will turn upside down and kid will think only about gambling? Knowing is always better than not knowing. Please dont stop about addiction. Person dont get addicted from looking and gambling. Something must happen to persons mind for him to become addicted.

P.S. Do you have kids?

It's weird if someone allow the young people to gamble.

Young people are vulnerable, they're immature, so they still not able to know what to do and what not in their life. Exposing the young ones to gambling, drugs, sex, or war, as they're grow up, I think the country where they live will messed up since it will be full of criminals.

Sometime it's better for the child to never know what gambling is, rather than knowing what is gambling with the risk involved with it.

That depends on how their parents approach to explain to their children. If we can explaining about gambling with carefully and our children can understand about that, they will not trying to gets close with playing. They will not trying to playing gambling even if their friends asks them to playing some traditional gambling to them.

It's all about how their parents can position themselves towards their children and not only strict forbid them not to gamble. But many parents nowadays only forbid their children from gambling without trying to get closer to their children, so this will make their children rebel or try to gambling with their friends in secret.

For the first time, they will curious with gambling and they will search for why people wants to gets fun from gambling. So they will try to playing gambling with their friends in secret and they see that they gets entertainment from gambling. But if they can't control themselves, they will lose their money and they will asks more money from their parents without tells what they will do with the money in truth.

It needs awareness from their parents to explain what is gambling and the risks behind of gambling with the danger that their children can gets from gambling. When their parents can explain everything about gambling, their children will not trying to playing gambling.

Precisely because the casino tests us and our children in such different directions, we must be comprehensively developed, just like our children. You need to communicate a lot with your child, in no case ask him "how are you" just for the sake of saying it. We need to be aware of all the hobbies of the child, this is very important.

I am so confident in my words because I often see how avid gamblers accuse their parents of a lack of attention from them.

Ok, good thing you went further to explain who and at what number of years old a person can be considered to be too young to gamble, or old enough to gamble.

But on the other hand, I still think it makes sense for people to always consider their financial level or status as well, because in our contemporary society today, level of fiancial stability or success is another way to or of measuring maturity.
I personally is of that opinion that a man who is matured, like 30, 50, any age above 18 actually, and seriously struggling financially, should do away with gambling, because this are the type of people that usually turn themselves into problem gamblers, getting addicted and destroying themselve the more, only a very few lucky ones scale through this, get lucky by winning a huge amount that possibly changes their financial situation.

We all know how horrible gambling is. The devil will damage your life, etc. Suppose I told you there's another side. A side that could teach our youngsters about life? I'm not advocating jumping into the casino with kids. Life is a gamble. Every decision, from profession choice to stock market investment, is a gamble

Why not teach our kids about risk, reward, and informed decision-making through gambling? Setting limits, regulating expectations, and avoiding getting caught up in the game are key. By discussing gambling honestly, we're not only prepping children for Vegas. We teach kids life skills. They study personal finance, temptation psychology, and self-discipline

I don't minimise gambling addiction's risks. It's serious. But this often-demonized behaviour can teach us a lot

You're right that's just the problem with kids under the age of gambling because unlike adult they see gambling in different perspectives which they believe they could win alot of money from it and before there parents will realize themselves the child will be out of control because the influence gambling has on kids is that it could make them to start thinking about doing illegal things just to get money and gamble, which is why is very important for parents to established a good interactive relationship with there children because it will help them to watch closely on there children by asking them about there friends and the kind of stuff they normally discuss on there school, and with this we can easily noticed the kind of influence there friends are having on them.

We can explain or give any picture to our children regarding the impact of gambling addiction. This is the first basic understanding of your child's knowledge regarding gambling. when they are still small and don't have their income, maybe they will realize and obey. but when they grow up, they tend to explore on their own. The first knowledge you are introduced to will be a warning. but when they find out for themselves or are introduced to them by friends, when they already have their income, maybe you can no longer put pressure on them.
I will emphasize more on being responsible for every action and activity he undertakes. he or she must look at any risks before doing anything, including if in the future they might access gambling.