Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 60. (Read 12692 times)

Of a truth gambling is considered as a source of income in the third world countries as there is a high rate of unemployment in those countries and the youths in those various countries have no option than getting themselves involved in activities that can earn them a living and gambling is not exempted from their engagements as they see that as a means of livelihood.

However, regulatory bodies are just not what they seems to be these days as they are more or less a ceremonial organisations where the leaders appoints their lackeys to head them having in mind that they are bereft of ideas to man those regulatory bodies. This is the situation of the third world countries and as you have said, I do not argue the fact.

Unfortunately, this system is not subject to state oversight, and oversight bodies do not do their duty to monitor these cafes.  This is somewhat understandable since these cafes are widespread even in deserted areas where there is no state authority.  You can imagine how teenagers could spend time in an isolated village in a mountain or in the middle of the desert.
To be clear, I am talking about a third world country where unemployment rates are high and job opportunities are absent.  Gambling is considered one of the most popular activities among young people of all ages and levels.

I bought more ideas from this post of yours and if I must say cafes are another place where children get  free access to gambling sites and also gambling too. If it would be possible for cafes to do this, partition their cafe and have child ward where below 18 browse and another for 18 and above. Then for that of the children, some certain websites should be prohibited or temporary locked so as not to pop up or children having access to it for their own safety. This could help stop some children from access some certain websites they are not supposed to open or have access to.

Your analogy about rich and poor kids and access to cellphones and money is very correct. A child who doesn't have access to money and cell phones will not gamble. However, in my area, people are more concerned about survival because the economy is taking a heavy toll on them. I have also seen some poor kids who have cell phones and still gamble but they need to have access to cellphone and money to gamble. I have also seen some rich folks who don't grant their children access to cell phones. I heard Bill Gates say that his children don't have access to cell phones until they get to college. One of the richest pastors in my country said that his son didn't have access to cell phones and would own his car after his First Degree. The point I am trying to make is that as parents we should protect our children from phones to enable us to protect them from activities that they are not mature to engage in.

In my country, popular cafes are spread everywhere, filled with unemployed people looking for opportunities to make a quick profit, which include defrauding strangers, gambling, and other suspicious activities.  Unfortunately, this is the reality of the situation, even in the remote countryside in the mountains or desert. You will not find cinemas or educational institutions for hundreds of kilometers, but you will find dozens of cafes in every square kilometre.
Because of these circumstances, children from their teenage years to pre-teen years frequent these cafes and spend their time playing cards and betting on sports matches.  These polluted spaces make it easy to plant false ideas in the minds of teenagers that smart people are more likely to win bets and not those who achieve productivity in their fields of work.  Dozens of young people graduate from these cafés, who will spend the best years of their youth placing bets on games, and this may force them to steal or something similar.

You are right because there is a saying that says "birds of the same feathers fluck together" and it would please you to know that if your kids like exploring new things they discover just to know more about what they get themselves engaged in. Merely talking to your child alone on the consequences and dangers of gambling when you know his or her friend is a gambler or from a home of gamblers then just forget it because you are more or less pouring water into a basket. Since your kids have a gambling friend, there is every possibility that they too would start gambling because they too would want to explore the misery behind the gambling world and in that course they can turn gambling a habit. So In that case of you notice your child gambling, just talk with them and explore means to find out about their friends that gambles because they do that together then after finding out invite them to the house without them knowing your intentions then when they come sit them down and advise them about and counsell them. Then you can be rest assured that your children are safe after that otherwise you relocate from that place because the earlier you take a decision on saving your kids the better for you.

Actually you have the point that mate does rich kids have thier own personal computer or an CELLPHONE  and have enough internet. Also like what you've said above si correct which if a young children have enough credentials and they can access the gambling sites then out of curiosity they will play in gambling sites cause they have money to spend cause thier parents can give them what they need as they are rich family. While poor kids which is only thing they can do is that playing with other children cause they don't have gadgets and money to access in gambling sites .

If you look at gambling, you will see that there are online casinos, offline casinos and these lottery games and slots that have been placed in every corner of the cities. But see that poor children, their parents rarely give them money constantly, are children who rarely get money. so they don't play on some slot machine. see I said slot machines because it is the cheapest gambling game in the real world, all people need to do is put coins in the machine to play and poor children don't have money to put them in these machines and play

Now imagine how much money it costs to buy a phone and give it to a child, it is unlikely that poor parents will give a phone to their children and give them money to constantly pay for internet so these children can play games. That's why, in my opinion, the majority of children who play in online casinos are children of middle-class and wealthy parents. Children of middle-class parents benefit from the fact that their parents have a good job, earn a lot of money and their parents don't have much time at home because they are at work. It is enough to see that children of rich or middle-class parents have cell phones at a very early age, have computers, have access to the internet at a very early age and this makes it easier for them to enter the world of gambling at a very early age.

A kid that is raised in a poor family, after seeing that through gambling a sum can be doubled in a sec, without hesitation would try doing it. A kid raised in rich family would have used other option to double the sum, and would use gambling as a relaxation. Rich kids could lose more, but poor kids would gamble because this is one of ways to earn quick, as compared to rich, the most likely cant wait and need money now. Rich and poor use gambling differently. But yes, we cant totally say that both kind of kids play more than other. As everything depends from family finances. Both rich and poor parents gamble, but poor usually seek in gambling solution to fix financial problems.

It is all about finances. If rich people gamble in front of kids, kids wont gamble with 100% probability when they grow. If poor people gamble in front of kids, kids most likely gamble, because they will see it as attempt to get more money. Same gambling, different scenarios of future.

I appreciate your interest in spreading awareness about this detail, which may seem trivial in the minds of many, considering that their children are at an early age and will not understand anything about the matter or imagine that they can control them and prevent them from even knowing. I know many gambling addicts who started experimenting with gambling from an early age because they were associating with people in their local surroundings who constantly gambled in different ways. It does not necessarily mean that they are relatives such as parents or brothers.
In fact, the danger of introducing gambling to children does not only include our children, but we must ensure that this includes all children because it is selfish to think about the psychological health of your children and neglect it among the rest of the children.

You are very right on this and I can confirm it. Rich kids have access to funds they don't even have need of, everything is provided for them by their parents and they don't have to struggle to get anything. So the excess money given to them for upkeep are usually spent on drugs, clubbing, alcohol and gambling. Most of the elite clubs have different forms of gambling games like snooker, poker and what have you.  It takes extra effort from the parents of rich kids to stop them from developing bad habits. Poor kids on the other hand are constrained by limited resources. They don't have enough money to fund their addictions. This is the reason the percentage of rich kids gambling is more than that of poor kids gambling.

We can't totally say that because the ratio of rich kids gambling is still higher since they have more spear money to play around with, and much also the rich kids have access to so many facilities that will make gambling easy for them that those kids from the less rich family, I heard of a rich kids who wasted millions of dollars in a night gambling.


That is one among many similar situations that points to the higher ratio of rich kids' involvement in gambling vs the ratio of poor kids involved in the same too.

I would like to comment on that. First, why kids are near parents that gamble, and not somewhere else (like in their room for example). I am pointing it out, that when we gamble, our kids play together in other room. When friends come at weekends, adults and kids are separate. They are busy doing their things, we are busy doing our. Ok, lets suppose someone let little kid to be near. I think that parent and other will immediately turn gambling game from serious into more fun and childish. Because kid might interfere, or tell cards if they play poker for example. Or if kid is old enough, he would just watch and stay silent, not to disturb and make parent disappointed.

Anyway, it all comes from parenting. If you teach your kid that gambling is a money maker activity and it is profitable that is one thing. If you teach it as a hobby, way to relax and have fun that is a different story.

Maybe these children become victims of gambling because they see many people gambling in their environment and indirectly, this is recorded in their subconscious so they will try gambling with their friends. They could also use drug trafficking to make quick money or even other illegal things so they can earn money. Money can be a source of problems depending on one's point of view. And if they want to make money fast, most will look for it in illegal activities that can actually give them fast money. Hopefully, we can look after our children well and avoid problems like that.

However, environmental factors will greatly influence how a child will behave towards gambling. it could be from family or playmates. The influence of both will be very large on children's responses to gambling.
if a child grows up in an environment where gambling is very normal. whether it's online or offline, even gambling with activities that are usually carried out as you said. The child will not be far from gambling. we can't ban them. they tend to collect money from the pocket money their parents give them. or even they work alone to earn money.
they are not gamblers with big money. but children may consider gambling as a way to earn money.

I think the thing that usually happens is that often the children who gamble underage; maybe it's the squatters' areas. Because, of course, only poor people live in this kind of place. And unemployed people, so their only resource to make money is to gamble in different ways.

Because here in our country, you can gamble in many ways, one of which is in billiards, pool, tong-its, basketball, and others. But in areas that are not squatter areas, children who gamble at a young age are rare. So it's only right that we really monitor our children.

Hard to do that when parents are playing cards for fun or poker and then out of nowhere they decide to play with real money. Meanwhile , they kids are near them , watching and observe how their parents are trowing money on some playing cards , thinking that is cool and nice. Let's be real , that is one the softest cases out there as I know cases where parents are sending their kids to betting station to place their bets and all of that so yea , I would say if you have gamble problems , never let your kids share it with you!

You see, this is again about influence and how we present gambling to kids, not because gambling itself it bad, addicted and etc. If we say and show our kids 100 times that we use gambling to earn, to multiply the money we have, then they might also use this method to get money when they grow up. But if say 100 times that gambling is fun, then for them it would be a fun activity on first place, and money on second.

The word addiction, the the word everyone uses here and are so afraid of, can be applied to everything we show our kids and the with enough influence, they can get addicted to everything. The thing is that we should not be afraid to show and tell kids about different things, we just need to do it with right approach. We should not teach our kids from the start that gambling is bad, because it isnt.

You have a point here. Although there are also underage people that are addicted in gambling not because of the money it offers, but because of the entertainment and satisfaction it brings to them.

I know few young people that are really spending a lot of money in gambling because they can afford to do so. It became a habit for them to continuously spend and bet which made them obsessed in playing and winning as a bonus. Although admittedly, I also know some youngsters who are in great financial debt that are also gambling. Perhaps this is their way to sustain their daily needs since in gambling they can earn even just a little amount every time they play. It's just saddening though that some people resort to gambling as their bread and butter because there are no enough opportunities for them given that they are poor and they have little resources and having little to no background education to start with.

Could be both, especially in the poor sector. I have read one news before where the residents are protesting about a physical gambling site being constructed near their place. There's a rule about this and the establishment should be far away from the residential area. If no one talks then kids could be a victim of those gambling sites.
It's actually happening to my place too where the cockpit is near. I've asked our homeowners' association leaders if the cockpit is complying with the rules of how far the gambling site should be and they say it is. But for me, it's still too near that kids here in our neighbor are talking about it and they even visited the area although they are not permitted to enter.
That's why I said it could be both. Considering the financial problem here in our place, paying the mortgage, electric bills, and other necessities, kids might be forced to gamble because their parents are having a hard time to put food in their table.