Topic: Minimum Age to gamble (Read 3733 times)

The most widespread gambling is not poker or casinos, its within ordinary arcade games themselves as the modern computer game contains a gambling element with cash in and value items won on what is essentially some form of gambling.  Even if that amounts to a lottery ticket, its gambling and yet the legal case to define it as such has not occurred especially.  Some governments have noticed and implemented legislation but thats not widespread; its worked slightly to block those citizens from gambling within the game but since its a global game with a global audience its restricted in a minor way only at present.

Before a kid will think of doing something of such, they must have definitely seen of have come across it some where probably with their parents or some one who's around them, so sometimes it's not just enough to provide your kids with everything but to Also keep eyes on them to know what they are exposed to.

As parents it's not good to grant access to our kids in everything, sometimes we denie theme this privilege for their own good even if it doesn't look like it in the short term but later it will be for their own good. Certain habits like gambling shouldn't be practiced in the presence of these kids because we wouldn't know how well they will handle it in our absences, so to prevent them from been exposed to such we have to not practice it in their presence.

I think it is impossible for parents to monitor their children's activities every 24 hours, so they have to educate their children to limit the use of smartphones so they don't do adult activities and gambling networks, maybe there is an application to record activity history which must be hidden and parents must regularly check the history their smartphone every week, they know the history on the browser can be deleted but they check the activity history on the activity recording application which has been hidden.

However, age restrictions in gambling are already regulated in state regulations and regulations of every gambling, perhaps we see another benefit from requiring the use of validating KYC on gambling to avoid children being involved in gambling.

It seems that such cases have occurred very much in several countries and yes, I also will not blame the child because I think everything returns to their parents who are negligent or unable to limit / supervise the activities of their children. In addition, now gambling promotions, especially those based online, are very easy to find, now small children who are still in their teens are very adept at operating cellphones and even their parents facilitate their children, and with that it is obviously very easy for children to find online gambling promotions that can make them curious and get involved there,

I don't think it's a problem if parents always allow their children in anything but I hope they parents should see and consider first from various sides, if indeed what their children do or the facilities provided by them can or are likely to make their children involved in the gambling network then obviously don't do it, and also on the other hand parents must always limit what activities their children do in their daily lives.

I think what is most common to happen are cases in which parents look at a certain computer game, something like GTV5 for example and the child wants to play online, but needs to buy something within the game and for that he needs bank card and parents see that it is a "harmless" game, so parents take their bank cards and buy the things that their children want within the game, cases like these have happened very frequently, especially because at the bank when If you withdraw money or use the card to pay for something, the bank alerts the card owner over the phone about the value of the transaction and the location where the bank card was used.

This would make it difficult for a child to create an account at an online casino and then use their parents' card without their parents finding out. What can happen currently is that the child has a phone and has an account with a payment provider like mpesa for example, then the child can create an account on the local betting site that does not ask for ID and does not ask for KYC and accepts payments by mpesa and with This way, the child will play without their parents finding out that they are playing in a casino, to deposit money in mpesa the child just needs to ask their parents for physical money and then they will go to an mpesa agent and deposit money into their account and then they can play.

It's true that mpesa asks for ID when the person wants to create an account, but the child can buy a phone number that mpesa already has and that's something simple to do, now I don't know how things are in other countries, but the problem is 16-year-olds in other countries behaving like adults raise discussions about what is the ideal age to consider a person as an adult, I spoke about 16-year-olds from abroad because it is a rebellious age that uses things more of countries to gamble and consume drugs and alcohol

There are online casinos that are strict with their KYC requirements and would never grant minors access to use their casino. Because they're fully aware of the consequences, they know they're liable to be sued if caught in the act, while some other casinos don't implement the rules on minors, not until the need arises. What I mean by the need arising is, they tend to use that to their advantage. There's this case of a minor who enrolled on an online casino that grants users full access to all the casinos activities even while your KYC is still under review. This minor registered and submitted his KYC and while his KYC awaited approval he went ahead to make his deposit and started using the casino's features. The boy made a significant win of over $500k but the casino denied him access to withdraw his funds on grounds that he was a minor and wasn't even permitted to use the site. There was nothing the boy could do and he lost the money.

I have seen many instances where kids gamble with parents account and even make deposit with parents cards. I think this is failure on the part of the parents. Why will you allow kids access to things they are not matured for? I understand some parents pet their kids so much that they grant practically every request made by the kids. In my opinion, it is not a good thing to do as parent; it is not a way of showing love because it will end up messing up the psyche of the kids rather than helping them.

While online decentralized gambling platform gives room for underage gambling since their clients are not asked for KYC but have many exit point to continue gambling without any restrictions or limit ls which make it a safe haven for kids who want to gamble unlike what we have with centralized fully KYC casino that mandates each player to go through verifications before they are allowed to gamble on their platform.
So it then depends on the casino and what they want and how best they choose to handle the issue of underage gambling.

Yes, it is very correct, of course I say about credit cards because the simple fact is that the things there are much easier to buy from every point of view since we go to a supermarket or since we are on the Internet making an order or playing in a casino, something that seems very comfortable to me and that gives a great service, for me casinos are entertainment and fun for adults, only and exclusively for adults, the reason why = you must be mature enough to accept that In a casino game you lose money and an opbelma is formed, in addition to that an adult is a person who already must have a lot of maturity and awareness in his actions, because he knows that if he does something wrong, or illegal, he can pay with jail and that is something very bad, and in part a casino cannot admit a person who is young or a minor because otherwise they can earn a good penalty for allowing a minor to play in a casino. If it is exclusively for adult entertainment, I think that in these cases there are stages in the life of a human being and obviously this stage should not be burned as a child, it is not appropriate.

  In the course of the things that we can do as adults, is it that we can generate any type of responsibility when executing an action and that is why it is required to be of legal age, that age varies according to what it is in many countries? Yes, of course, each country has its own laws, rules that must be handled as they say and respected by all of us, in my case where I live, in my country a person is considered an adult at 18 years old, sufficient age where it is assumed that the person is mature, has a conscience and can stick to the rules and they have to assume the consequences in case of acting badly or against the laws, that is why this is so delicate when it comes to casino, because for me It's just healthy entertainment for adults.

I'm more of the perspective that education does a far better job of prevention to the worst cases of gambling.   Not denial just dont, because people always will take the path excluded from their view for curiosity precisely because others said no its forbidden.  Educate them on the cost of gambling, the games % odds probability vs other games you can play in terms of worth, efficiency and a kid can reason for themselves its a high cost game and not worth risking a loss of what they have earnt.  Thats another measure let kids earn money so they know the worth of what they stand to lose, it will go a long way to actually knowing not guessing.

The gambling was the game for the adult people and adult age was mostly vary to some countries.But the accepted age of the adult was from the 18 years,So we can fix the gambler age will be 18 or above 18 eligible for the gambling.The kid also lay the gambling game using their parents account in their parents mobile.But the gambler should ready to accept the loss in the gambling site,So the gambler with age above to the adult had the capacity to accept the loss from the gambling site.The kids may miss use their parents card using their card details saved to the gambling site by used by  the gambler parents.So the card miss use was common one in the gambling.

The official adult age of some countries varies from other and that's why in some countries, their minimum age if gambling is 21 years while others are 18 years which I think is also good but that doesn't mean that some of the online gambling sites who doesn't allow any individual of whichever age to access their sites and gamble in them.
I think the online gambling platforms needs to do more to regulate the age bracket of their customers so it'll help stop underage children from gambling online

Some countries are very different in terms of the age that can be considered an adult, for me in a casino what has to be considered is that a person is considered an adult and that you meet the requirements of being an adult of age, for me it is 18 years old, but I know that there are countries where the majority of age is 21 years old, so this is something that can be very strange, but I think that when we start to think about the things that can be established In a casino it is that the people who are betting are aware of the money they are betting, the money they are risking and the money they are willing to lose if they lose it, because no casino wants to go through the painful necessity of having problems with minors. of age, and even more so if he entered a casino and enjoyed it, played and then is demanding the money back, because in short, that would be what the casino would have to do if the police entities discovered something like that.

There are countries that are very liberal and that before they are 18, teenagers already do many things that are for adults, it is surprising but it is like that, however I would think that things have to be handled with the utmost care with this, I think that a caisno will always look for the least do things well, and to do them well, they have to stick to what they can achieve with a person who assumes their responsibilities and who does not go crazy, because if that happens it is easy, the police are called and he is arrested, pays for his bad performance and that's it, that's why I consider that as a man you should consider yourself an adult at 18 years old, 'because there is maturity, there are many times of things that can be assumed, and that is what you look for in a casino that A person assumes that if he loses, if he wins, if he does good things, it is the only thing, because it is known that casinos were invented to entertain people and make them enjoy themselves, if we start from that premise, then many things add up.

people no longer think about any particular age in gambling again,the world is so corrupt to the extent that no one cares whether a child is upto the age of gambling or not,and secondly,in this present generation,children grow too fast that you won't be able to know the difference between an adult and a child because what they eat makes them look so mature and big,and you won't even think of asking them of their age,because they look like adults.but in the real sense,a child is supposed to think of gambling from the age of 16,we can no longer use 18 because they are already too big,and have known everything by 18., therefore,16 is the appropriate age for any child who wants to gamble.

That is what happens when politicians fiddle with the law, they create a complex mess that is impossible to make any sense of, a standard must be agreed upon about the age at which we expect someone to be an adult and have all the rights and responsibilities that come with it, and I agree that 18 years old seems like the right age to do this as it is at that time when people have to begin to take decisions that will have a strong impact for the rest of their lives.

It is even sillier if you also consider than in the United States people is able to apply for a driving license as soon as they reach the age of 16 years old.
So it is not only about someone being able to decide what you want to study and work in for the rest of their lives, having the right to a gun but not being able to gamble. They are also assumed to be mature and competent enough to make choices while driving a vehicle, but are not to be trusted with gambling their own money.
It is quite a strange situation, if you keep in mind that driving a car does not only involves one's own integrity but also those who are traveling with us and the rest of the people driving in the street.
Here in my country the universal law to be able to partake in all of it of 18, it makes more sense. Of course, that us just my opinion. 

Well, when it comes to age, it is always a better time to reach the minimum age, it is 18 years old, I consider that before it is not only appropriate, it is not good at all, and I think that now everything can happen For it to be implemented, 18 years represents by far an age where basically everything matures, so this is something that can happen to be a protection for parents, if we come together to see everything that can be done for the good of children , adolescents, this can be determined, although for many countries things may be different, because I know that in some countries, such as the Arabs, it is considered that a person of legal age is 21 years old and that is not bad, they have their rules, I don't know in which other countries it can be like this, and even though this is considered, there are countries that are very liberal, that a child up to 11 years old can even drink alcohol, but that is already another level, giving responsibility is something that can be considered good or bad.

Now, every person who has a child, father, mother, grandfather, uncle, whatever has a child, must first be taught values, good things and bad things, they must be talked to about these things, about The casinos and especially everything that can cause harm or not, for that reason it is necessary to support all the time that the best thing is for children to wait at least until they are 18 years old so that they can start in a casino. This, more than anything, is due to the degree of maturity one has, and if certain freedoms are made available to someone under age, it can bring many problems, both for him and for those who have his guardianship and can go to prison and that is What should be avoided, a minor may not bear any type of responsibility, that is why it is considered that a person in a caisno must be of legal age to respond to their actions, it is normal, whoever does not comply , because you have to face harsh consequences.

In some nations it's 18 and in some it's 21. I think 18 is enough, like for example in the USA kids could go to college and live all by themselves and could end up studying whatever the yare going to be in the future, and could even buy guns, and yet the yare not capable of getting a beer without permit, like there needs to be someone older with them. I am sorry, but when you are 18 and at college, being able to buy a gun and not being able to buy a beer seems like weird.

Same goes for gambling, they can't gamble, but they are capable of making their lifelong decision on what they want to major, I am sorry but how does that make sense. You can make a decision that "may" impact 40 years of your life, but you can't bet 100 dollars on a team to win that week? That is as silly as it gets. I think 18 is enough, you get to decide on which college and which major, so you get to drink a beer and bet on the game as well if you want, should be done together.

The KYC request from the casino to its customers is made so that the casino does not get into trouble with the regulator because there may be many children under 18 who gamble at the casino, so the casino wants to prevent them from gambling. But even so, there may be children who borrow an adult's identity to verify their account so they can bypass the money limit. This requires every adult to supervise every activity of children under 18 so they will not gamble prematurely. Maybe they can gamble if they are mature enough, have mental readiness, and can control themselves so they don't become addicted to gambling.

It shows that casinos care about society as well as profit. The KYC mechanism serves to protect young people, whose curiosity peaks and decision-making skills are still developing

You can't say enough good things about how casinos protect the mental and emotional health of children. Gambling is serious business. Online platforms have increased their duty because such activities are easy to access. They must be alert, strict, and always enforce these rules

Parents are also crucial. Parents must guide, limit, and educate their children about gambling as the first line of protection. It's about teaching kids values, understanding, and resilience against such temptations, not merely telling them what to avoid. Parenting is hard work that requires ongoing attention and dedication. Casinos, parents, and society must work together to secure our children's future