Gambling before your children is very similar To stealing or having sex before them because they will learn more than you And will like To try it with their peer groups in School especially in the Hostels.
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this analogy might be too much, because i also grew up in an environment where people gambled every day, but i didn't grow up being a gambling addict. because it still comes back to the individual, because many gambling addicts are born from good families. so even though it is not recommended to gamble in front of children, even if we gamble in front of them there is no certainty that they will gamble more than we do.
Funny how we didn't grow up seeing adults having sex openly, but there has been a high rate of sexual activities recently. The web introduces all forms of content that could arouse a person's interest to try out something. There exists lots of expensively made attractive ads online, to attract the interest of young people. Same way sexual contents are made available to increase young people's interest in sex. Which increased the high rate of sexual activities. With the high increase of gambling-related content online; streamers making up some crazy dramatic results. Young or growing people will develop a strong interest in gambling.
Gambling sounds like a decent means of money-making for most naive young people. Their interest in gadgets like gaming consoles for instance will make a youth, go through all choices to achieve the jackpot in gambling. They imagine those fantasies, living their best life, which drives them to make mistakes. Those are factors that deceives some age groups, in the human race. Recently young people engaged more in gambling compared to the aged people. Due to the massive adoption of the online gambling niche. It solved lots of trouble for young people, they can easily gamble privately. With no other body being aware of the habit. Compared to the days of offline gambling, where everyone around the vicinity will know a specific person as a gambler.
Online gambling created privacy, that's great. But opened a big loophole on the entire age regulatory mandate to watch over young people who could be participating in the game. The age restriction is for their good. But they don't care provided money can be made out of the activity. So, gambling revolves around young people, whether we gamble facially or hiddenly in their presence. It's respect, and I commend it, our kids also deserve some respect. There should be some activities which we wouldn't do in their presence. This will help make an easy validation process in the child's brain concerning his gambling decision. He could decide to gamble or not, but seeing his dad will tick his 'I will do it' gambling decisions. In all, against all odds, the child's decision matters.