Topic: Is it proper for younger ones to gamble? - page 10. (Read 1749 times)

It's difficult to monitors their children all of the time but parents still have a chance to educates their children to stay away from something that can harm their lives. If their children follows their parents suggestion, there's nothing to be worry because their children can take care of themselves and knows what they should do if their friends asks them to do something that suspicious. That's why parents must stay closer to their children and always asking what they do while they are not with their parents so parents knows what they do and make sure that their children is okay. But many parents can't do this because they are busy with their jobs and that makes their children lack of their parents love which can impact to their lives. They will trust their friends than their parents because their friends is always besides of them while they have a problems while their parents still busy.

It's not proper and it's a sign that you're a bad parent to let your child do the thing that you know will never be good for them. I don't really get the people that would say that it's proper because how can you justify it besides the awareness part? They can get that thing later in their life, anything that you child would be exposed to at a young age would leave a lasting impression to them and you don't really want that to happen because when it does it's going to be a big problem, what if you don't fully know your kid and then you came to know later on that they're going to be easily obsessed on that bad habits. I say that in this scenario, let the kid explore but you have to direct them to the parts of life that would leave a positive lasting impression to them rather than letting them explore aimlessly or even directing them to the bad stuff.

I agree that parents can’t monitor or be with there children all the time.
But we won’t neglect the fact that a child with a good moral upbringing will be hard to crack with influence as he/she will tend to move according to the subconscious training. A child with love and care from parent will also open up to there parent in terms of need or any problem, I don’t think such child will have the intention of gambling which might lead to stealing of money just to fulfill the addictive nature.
Parents don’t just train but also monitor the close friends, materials the children are exposed to, most of us didn’t gamble at that age or ever thought of it probably as a family man responsible for your won action you gave in for either reasons and disciplined on how you go about it.

In those countries or societies it is simply not a priority for authorities to enforce laws on the casinos and the betting places, I guess. I believe that is one of the signals about how crime and law enforcement is doing in a country, but that is only a theory of mine.
In my experience, schools and educational organizations only care to punish their students if they are caught by someone in a charge or a figure of authority within the school, otherwise, pretty much nobody cares about students gambling or not.

I wonder whether it would be different in countries like The United States and those in the European Union, considering corruption is always present to some degree within all societies.

It's worse than you think. Those kids are not gonna quit even if someone talks to them about the damage it's doing to them  since they were already exposed to it earlier. It'd be hard to break off such habit now if they're already doing it with their uniforms on? That's really wild. They now have their balls deep in gambling. Whatever you learn in your teen days, is gonna stick with you in life for sure. That's why I fear for those kids especially if they randomly win, the dopamine hit will push them to bet more.

But these does not mean that it is proper for a minor to gamble.  I believe it is a global rule that a person should be at least 18 years old to be able to engage in gambling legally.  In any country, anything that is illegal is not proper so applying that logic, regardless of the minor's addiction or how freely they can engage in gambling activities, it is not appropriate/proper for them or let them engage in a gambling activity.


It can't be avoided, social media platforms are made to make a profit so any advertisement as long as it is not illegal can be shown on the platform.  The "meeting place of people"  is just a strategy to lure the masses into using their apps and actually planned so that they can launch the business model in their mind.

Gone are the days when most social media platforms are only for socializing. This time, it's for an actual marketplace where everyone can meet from business to business and other industries. Well, it's part of their business model to have revenue and that's through the ads.
There's one thing that's being cooked in our lawmakers that they're about to ban the advertisement of gambling through social media platforms because a lot of people are seeing it not just the kids but also the adults that can't control themselves and gets addicted to it.

Firstly I think that younger ones Gambling is very wrong. The age restriction for Gambling is more like a safe guard to prevent unnecessary and irresponsible Gambling habits of an individual and hence the Gambling restriction of 18+. A lot of teenagers are not able to make proper decisions for themselves hence if they are given the opportunity to gamble they will end up abusing it and even harming themselves. One common issue is that in some countries they are unable to properly enforce the 18+ Gambling rule hence alot of these teenagers in such countries are able to do such things illegally.

We all know that the social media platforms are mostly use by business owners, influencer etc for advertisement and since gambling platforms are business owned by people then advertising their businesses there is not a bad idea, due to the fact that the social media is crowded with lots of people every business owner see that as the best option for advertisement, moreover I do see some influencers indicate on the advertisement with a write up +18 rated to discourage people below such age from doing it. So I don't blame most of them if kids out of greed or love for quick money decide to go into gambling knowing fully well it's rated +18. Well I think parents are in the right position to caution children below 18 from going into the media cause lately, asides gambling there are many 18 rates stuff that could corrupt their mindset stuff like Pornography and the rest .

Here in my country, there are too many influencers advertising casinos and even with the age of 18 under are being exposed to online gambling. They don't think about those audience that they're impacting with the ads that they promote casino. It's easy money for them and that's why they don't care at all but, there are still a lot of good influencers that don't advertise casinos because they know how impactful and influential they are with their audience even if they don't do it.

Although age is just a number, and is not a guarantee that those aged 18 years and over have maturity in thinking and acting. However, gambling is still not a good place for those who are underage and still in school.

Financially, they are still dependent on their parents, and they themselves are unable to earn money or income. Meanwhile, in terms of gambling, it has quite a large financial risk. And the thing he is worried about is, when they enter the world of gambling and betting, because of their young age and limited experience and understanding, it seems that they are quite vulnerable to gambling addiction. And what's worse, when someone feels addicted to gambling, they will do anything to be able to gamble. Because they have not been able to earn money by working, they are very worried about being able to fulfill their desire to continue gambling, these teenagers have become short-sighted and have lied to their parents several times in order to get money to gamble. and another possibility, this could encourage the teenager to commit even more serious acts, such as stealing

In a country where there’s no rule on age limit to gamble or a bet platform that does not restrict any age group from betting, you’ll see more teenagers engaging in betting which is not good. A student that is under the care of their parents and have their needs taking care of shouldn’t be find in such places. When they are open to big money at this young age and lavish the way they like, the day they don’t have money again they’ll end up joining bad gangs just to have that money or even steal from home.

As the shop owner, he shouldn’t have allowed underage to play bet in his shop, but since they are no rules to penalise such people and they’re after the money they’ll get, they won’t bother allowing more teenagers come to bet in their shop. Can even to the extent of telling those kids to invite more if their friends because as a student, they hardly go out of money because they’ll need them in school for upkeep or other purposes which they can always ask their parents for.

Yes, it's really abnormal for kids to gamble especially if they are not yet up to 18 or 20, because it will really affect their mental state of mind and I don't know if it's because of how the economic is, that is why younger ones gambling, but that shouldn't be an excuse for them to gamble at a younger age because it will really create an impact in them that can lead to gambling addiction, financial problems, losing focus on their academics and other negative outcomes. So in order to avoid such case, parents or guardians should also be vigilant and monitor their children way about or activities and the kinds of friends they make or have around them, also tell them the dangers and effect gambling will do in their especially if they an addict. So with all these awareness, we can help out younger ones.

Younger ones can gamble but there must be age limit consideration before allowing for such, gambling is something that involves the use of money to do, we cannot expect a child who is still independent to be fully engaged in gambling, what will first come to mind is on how he managed to see fund to use for that purpose, but when a child is above eighteen years old, we can consider him to be more matured and at the stage of trying to get his independency from his parents to gamble after which he must have been involved in other things that source income to his pocket.

Yes I think your method can be useful to be applied in physical casinos, but I think this method will not really work if we talk about the type of online casino which is now increasingly popular and reaching more and more people because most people especially young people prefer to spend most of their time playing the internet and I found a news that informs that there is a significant increase in terms of statistics that in the last one year the population of gamblers has increased dramatically which most of them are young people and this is quite alarming news in my country.

On the other hand I understand that casinos can implement stricter systems such as implementing KYC so that minors cannot be involved in any type of online gambling, but honestly I see only a few online casinos that implement systems like this (especially in my country) which in turn makes anyone (including minors) free to engage in any type of online gambling with easy registration, and I think this makes sense because logically gambling is a business for casinos, They will not care about the safety of minors, the point is that casinos only want more people involved in their gambling sites regardless of whether they are minors or adults, because after all the more people involved the greater the casino profits, and I think one of the actions that can be taken to prevent a child from getting involved in gambling is back to their parents, or that means parents must be able to supervise their children to avoid gambling.

So true! We need to protect younger generation from betting and gambling but with every generation getting poorer and poorer , most of them are looking towards gambling like a life saver and that is a huge problem that no one wants to admit. Here in Romania , we finally introduce a law that erased all gambling shops from rural zones because those kids were stacking into a booking house daily , skipping school and just betting their pocket money that parents gave them for road travel or simply for a quick snack...

Due to easy access or simply talking about internet and  the things that could really be able to deal up with then its not really that shocking that those youngster would really be having that kind of involvement towards
gambling considering that it would really be that so easy on trying out to access up these places without being that caught. If we do speak about physical places then it wont really be that much of a common scenario on this one.Although there might be some instances that these fellas could really be seen into the vicinity whether they had been allowed or something like that but its not really that right at all no matter what the angle that we would really be trying to look upon. We do know the risks involved when it comes on dealing up with gambling in having that not right on age because you cant really be able to bare up with the risks involved
until you would be finding yourself that devastated.

Absolutely.
However IMO I think that every gamble hall should be able to have a security on the entrance of their shop/store so that not everyone can be able to go into the gambling hall. The work of the securities should be to walkout anyone that's not up to age of gambling and those that are mentally unstable. The reasons why they shouldn't allow children to enter into the gambling hall is because they are not up to age and they can't afford to lose anything in gamble and they don't have to the sense of making decisions. And the mental unstable people should not gamble because they are mentally unstable and can cause harm when they lose money.

That is the fact that happens today whereas many kids under 18+ visits offline or online casino. They don't thinks that gambling is not for them and yes, that is not normal for their ages. But although we warn them, they still visits that casino and playing gambling with their friends. They seems doesn't thinks that playing gambling needs to have many things to avoids the addiction. Their parents must educates them to stay away from gambling and not trying to playing gambling games with their friends. They can't resist the tempts from gambling if they decides to playing gambling and will comes back to play the games and that can cause many problems in their ages.

Most countries around the world unless in few will the age restriction work because in most places you still fine handful of under age gambling both in the offline and the online casinos.


The 18 plus roll is subject to some few countries who even try to ban gambling completely, this is the high way to tackles the Gambling addiction that can arise from under age gambling.