Topic: Is it proper for younger ones to gamble? - page 9. (Read 1749 times)

Well to me everyone have their right to decide what to do and what is obtainable for them, I don’t see any fun in telling them no to gamble, as long as they know what is good and bad, let them enjoy their self and if they lose it will be on them

If they are not strict with their regulations, it will surely be abused or ignored. Gambling in their younger years has different impact as the way of their thinking is usually not yet mature. Most of them are just after for the winnings. Once they experience loss or incurred debts, it seems that it is the end of their life, which we all know is just part of gambling life. How they handle stress and losses sometimes is quite dangerous. Do remember those news in which young individuals commit suicide owed to gambling.

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For older gamblers, they already experienced a lot in life. So a loss or losses for them is just part of this game. Should not take it too seriously, otherwise, you will go crazy chasing those losses. Also, better not to incur debt for your gambling activities. This is where the situation can easily get messy. And you will have chaotic life if you will subject yourself to debts.

This exactly is my main point. Kids , teens no matter how grown or matured they seem to be are under no circumstances allowed to involve them self in Gambling activities of any sort. Sadly some countries have poor management of rules and regulations that restrict individuals below 18 for being able to gamble or even place bets in casinos. This is even better enforced in area's with traditional and regular casinos since it is quite difficult to enforce such rules online.
When kids and young adults involve themselves into Gambling activities at a very young age, it usually has some level of negative effects on them even in terms of behavior and intent and love for money. If you observe properly many under 18 gamblers gamble mainly because of the financial benefits and nothing more.

anyway children art whether good or bad it is the front of the parents if you are allow your children to be mindful of looking for money or making money they will not Focus and interest to the place that they want them but the process whereby you have a plan for them and you resist them to not participate certain thing that they are not supposed they will desist from it immediately knowing that they are not taking a good step or rightful step

answer: definitely not. Minors have nothing to do in such places, and their parents should more carefully control what their children do and with their money. And there is a problem that children will start looking for money for new rates and skip school. If I were you, I would leave a complaint to the manager so that he would be more attentive who comes into the establishment.

The society is really closing eye on how the young ones are gambling of recent. You are actually right about seeing teenagers in physical gambling shop trying to make little end means from gambling and I actually blame that on bad parents. A child is not supposed to gamble when they are underage, it's body written for a person above 18 years but people will play and the funny part about this is that even the casino will let them play because the agent is actually making money for the casino so he can get paid.


The thing is that if you send them out of that physical gambling place, they will go to another one and gamble without any stress, it has become normal and it's hight time the parent start looking at this behavior seriously. There are ways to check this, most of this kind of people hardly get good results in school, always follow up what they are doing in school.

I bet that there are still some smart kids amongst them who would discover the dangers and threats gambling pose to their finance, even without anyone telling or advising them. It's improper for a kid to gamble under the restricted approve age by the government and the gamble itself,  it lets not assume all the kid who would gamble under the he age are dumb enough not know what they are getting themselves into. Though their minds are not yet mature enough to make good informed decision, but let's not forget that they are becoming smarter than what we use to be at our team age.

Government of different countries have restrictions on young and teenage gamblers. worldwide, there is a set age at which a teenager must reach or attain before he or she is allowed to gamble, for USA, I think the age is either between 19 and 21, while over here in Nigeria, the age is 18, every country of the world where gambling is legal and regulated has restriction on underaged gamblers.

But then on the other hand, what I've personally noticed is that, the law banning underaged teenagers from gambling is no longer enforced, government seem no longer interested or care about this laws being enforced, and casinos also no longer take the enforcement of this laws serious since they themselves are also looking for more and more customers, and they seem not to mind serving underaged teenagers as well, this is a very bad thing in our society today and it's something we all must discourage.

I know this is crazy but I heard before that too much discipline given by the parents to their children is also one of the cause of their rebellion. Maybe the proper way to care them is that we won't be too strict and we won't spoil them too much. Just equal only.

Even on other things, we also have a saying that everything too much is not good anymore. Same goes with everything that is too less. Teens still have a young mind and all what they want is to have fun. If in case they earn something in gambling, they will only use it for playing again or buy other things they like. There is still nothing wrong to treat gambling as a source of income but as long as you are earning successfully with it. 

Op I am not in any way  supporting them for coming To the betting shop with their uniform To gamble But in the other way round there is no specific uniform for Gamblers And you can gamble with any cloth in as much as you are up To the statutory age required By your country to gamble . Life is quite difficult that even teenager's go after the money too to support their family and at same time take care of their daily needs too.

Moreso. Another thing you will have To put into consideration is his or her upbringing And the environment where he or she is raised bacuse the environment is one the major factors that influence children . If they grow in an environment where virtually all their mates are gamblers they will also be gamblers or in their school as well where all their peer groups are gamblers they will likely try their own possible way to practice gambling so as to have the same experience as their mates .

But in actuality it is not proper for a teanager  to gamble and at same time with school uniforms, but the society is already corrupt and the government who are supposed to regulate such circumstances are also corrupt so the whole system is just corrupt from the head .

Individual differences matters in the attitude of gambling shop admins. Like you said some agents focus on money but forget the necessities of respecting the restrictions placed on young underaged players. Allowing such people to gamble in their shops will degenerate the respect some adult have for the shop. Adult players or high rollers wouldn't mind leaving the shop to a more moderated gambling shop. Those agents who don't enforce these restrictions by allowing school kids to use the gambling shop is causing harm to the society.

On the long run the gambling shop will lose out more customers that won't accept such idea; gambling in same room with kids. It's embarrassing gambling with some young folks. Sometimes the gamblers are blamed for showing their kids the gambling house, taking them along with them to the gaming shops. Henceforth, the young person would think it's normal to gamble there since his dad has once taken them to the shop. On the other thoughts the child's parent can be aggressive with the gambling shop for not bouncing out the young school boy from the gambling shop. The emotional downside it causes to the player will cause a lifelong bad effect on the player.

What surprised me was that the owner of the gambling shop understood that minors were not allowed to gamble, but he still allowed these children to gamble at his place even in their school clothes. I understand that he is also in business and money is money, but there should be limits on who he accepts the money from, he should be aware that it is not appropriate for him to accept underage children to gamble at his place. Didn't he think about how the child's parents would react when they found out that their child was gambling in a place like that? They would definitely be very disappointed with this, because no parent would want their child to become a gambler at a young age.

Agree with the opinion, though it is normal to have negative effects of gambling, adults can control it, but if minors gamble during their education, on the one hand, they are wasting their money, on the other hand, they are becoming addicted and everyone knows about its effects. From now on, if parents do not take care of their children, those children will destroy them. However, only parents cannot remove these children from such activities, to bring them under control, government laws must also be applied. If all children gambling is discouraged then it can be brought under control.

It is never wrong to protect children from negative and potentially imprinting marks on their consciousness, but there is always a reduction over time because what is known from childhood can mitigate the subsequent consequences, let the children are too mature and expose them, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, I also feel that exposing children a little early is not a problem, we can completely cut down on the evils as well as prevent them, letting them try gambling at a later time is just a lonely experience for them, we really don't have the strength in that moment to break their formed consciousness.

If we talk logically then it is clear that it is no longer appropriate for children to carry out gambling activities, because if it is just small game that is played with their friends in school can be considered as their entertainment.
Just imagine that they are still school children and whether they deliberately don't go to school or after school going to betting shop is not normal thing for school children to do, I sure if their parents found out they would definitely be very angry.
What is really unfortunate about something like this is the bad impact that could happen to them, such as gambling addiction, losing direction in learning, losing excessive money and the potential for things that go beyond the limit to the loss of child future.
They gamble without any control or proper basis so that they can easily get all the bad effects, betting places should have an age limit for being able to enter.
But basically things like this are happening lot now, even where I live there are several similar incidents, it will be very difficult to suppress or prevent incidents like this.

For young people who are still underage such as under the age of 18 then yes usually casinos prohibit them from getting involved, which is one of the reasons why casinos apply KYC, namely to avoid some minors from getting involved, and other reasons yes as you said that someone who is still underage usually has an undirected, immature mindset and cannot make rational considerations for making decisions which indirectly usually their mindset leads them to the potential for greater disaster possibilities, plus they cannot control themselves.

If we talk about the impact, it is clear that if young people who are still underage are involved in gambling, it can threaten their future because they still have an unstable mindset and cannot make careful considerations in terms of each time they make a conclusion, but sometimes I quite often see some casinos that operate without involving the KYC system in it which makes anyone can be involved in gambling including minors, and I think for this problem, the rest is the duty of parents to be more vigilant in protecting their children from reaching gambling.

Its not normal sight to see since there must be something illegal happening if we can see those young individuals going to those betting shops and they can able to bet just like what other people on legal age do.
They should not supposed to go there since they are prone for a lot of risk since young guys don't have proper decision making and that could affect them so bad especially if they go addicted or commit a mistake then lost a lot of money with that.

That's why I agree on what government is imposing and became strict on the casino regarding on this issue since if it happens that the law is not so tight for those kids then everything will be in huge troubles since we can see a lot of children will get off the good track.

Some countries already have strict rule with respect to young people involving in gambling as illegal, but sincerely i also agree with them cause young people might not have developed good self control to be able to keep themselves from getting addicted to gambling.

Have you seen what pornographic contents do to underage children, they result to maturation and that is bad and those habits take a lot of time to fix even in adult hood, so it's best they stay off it.

There is nothing to ask about this, kids gambling in a betting shop isn't normal and anyone knows it. I don't know what the rules and regulations are in your country regarding this, but I don't think anyone below the age of 18 should be allowed anywhere near a casino. I used to think that online casinos are not doing very well because they are easily accessible by children, but if physical casinos are like that then I don't think we can question online ones.

Government and local authorities shouldn't allow this, and even if they do, the shop owner should have some ethics and shouldn't allow children to gamble only to get a few bucks extra as revenue. Even if gambling is legal in the country, this is wrong to another level, if no one stops kids from doing this, their parents need to be responsible at least.

Gambling shops should not only think about profits, they also need to think about the future of the younger generation. If they gamble at an age where they are not yet familiar with gambling, this will affect their future, especially if children think they would prefer to gamble and they become lazy about going to school because they required by difficult lessons of course it will affect future generations so it's good for offline gambling shops to think about that and they prohibit underage children from gambling. It would be better if offline shops implemented identities such as KTPs. Usually school children are very clever at getting around them. come wearing normal clothes so the gambling shop has the right to see the identity of the gambler first to see if they are suitable to gamble.

A few days ago in my country there was a stir with the news of high school students who gambled on slots and took out quite large loans of around $9000. I also didn't expect that a high school student would be so brave in taking out a loan just to gamble. His parents found out and his parents were forced to bear the responsibility for the child's actions if are not responsible, how will child be able to pay the loan? that amount of money if it is not his parents who will return it, causing his parents' business to go bankrupt, so from this incident it can be concluded that underage gambling is very risky. Especially since they cannot earn their own money which will only cause trouble for their parents.