Topic: Parents And Their Children In Gambling.. - page 3. (Read 9189 times)

I don't believe that any parents will permit their children that are under age to gamble. No sane parent will encourage or permit their  underage children to gamble.
It is not only parents  that train children, the environment they grow up also has some influence on them. If almost all the children in the environment are gamblers, there is a very high chance that your own child will follow his peer and gamble.

And you know what it is even more infuriating, the people that create those apps and those devices do not let their kids interact with them and even send them to schools in which it is forbidden to use a phone at all, this should tell us what we need to know about how dangerous are those devices to underage people, and yet many parents do not take the time to think about this as they are too busy with their jobs to give any kind of meaningful attention to their kids.

I believe this situation is now all across the globe as smartphones are easy to access.
A lot of parents are also doing this just letting their kids use or buy their phone so they can free up themselves.
Yes, they can have free time but they don't know that their kids are learning something that they should not do yet.
You are right, most apps now are having in-app purchases which means, it is free to install but once you played it, you need to pay to acquire items of the game.
Parents should be cautious on this practice. This is why some will be surprised also if they received their credit card billing from unknown purchases.
But kids now can easily access possible gambling apps because of the smartphones, parents should be alarmed with their kids activities using phones.

I have noticed the same here, I have seen my neighbor letting her 6-8 years old child to play on her phone so the child can stay entertained.
It is a weird thing to see, considering these new phones we see nowadays could be even bigger than the head of the child itself and the side of those handheld devices are not designed to be held by little children.

The problem is that apps are not how they used to be back in the day, they are not about a one-time purchase anymore, the business model have switched to micro-transactions and even worse: loot-boxes, in games are are supposed to be for everyone.

I can even find on Google Scholar several articles suggesting a link between loot boxes and problem gaming, even mental struggles.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460319301091

The point is, don't show something negative to your child, they will imitate it and think it's a good thing because you did it.


that's true but not all children want to follow in the footsteps of their parents, environmental factors and religious upbringing have an important role in forming a child's mindset.


something like this is also happening in my city, many children under the age of 10 play Scatter Slots, they think it is a normal slot game but they buy chips to play and the money they use is pocket money given by their parents. the role of parents' supervision of their children is important.

If you are talking about these kids gambling, it is quite impossible for them to gamble at that young age.  First, they are not qualified to top up in the game.  I haven't seen 6 or 8 yrs. old kids making a top-up in a game nor even these kids have access to any financial processor applications.  No matter how hard they tried, they will end up playing play money and that isn't gambling in its definition.  Probably if these kids get older, but at that age, I doubt they can gamble on a mobile phone.

This is another example of why parents should manage the mobile phones of kids, the should always check them and if possible put a monitoring application so that they will know what sites and what apps their kids are visiting.


Indeed they will always be and they must be responsible for the action of their children if the kids is in a young age.  But those aged 16 and above have their understanding of the surroundings and I think making parents responsible for these teenagers isn't fair.  They can guide them and teach them but I believe 16 years old has the knowledge and be able to understand and differentiate bad from good.



Indeed little kids imitate their parents but teenagers have the idea of good deeds and vices unless the person has a mental problem.  I believe it is just a reason for teenagers aged 16 and above to justify their wrong deeds.  I believe people at this age know that gambling is bad but since it is ordinary in their family, they don't bother and keep on gambling.  That is why the responsibility to teach children of good traits and character is primarily on the parents.

when I looked at this thread now I remembered that days ago I have seen very strange things in my city, I see children who are only 6 years old and others who are 8 years old having a cell phone and playing games, and these children spend most of their time days playing on the phone and then without a doubt they will start playing games of chance, because these kids on the phone do research and when they search about games for phone they will find games of chance and as they grow they will enter the world of gambling and they will not talk nothing for parents, I think it's a big risk to give a 7-year-old a phone. in the same way that a parent should not take their child to the world of gambling, this is not a good thing.

What I think is that parents will always be responsible for the actions of their children, because children tend to imitate their parents or those who are very influential in their lives, if they see that their parents do bad acts they will interpret it as good deed to imitate, there is nothing that can evade the responsibility of parents, there will always be some responsibility for them, a good father or mother will not only be aware of their children until they are 18 years old, I have seen how some parents disassociate themselves of their children at the age of 18, having a child is for life, it is something that is acquired for life, it is one of the best commitments in life. When they are minors, everything that happens with the children is the direct responsibility of the parents.

We need to teach our children how to value things and how money is a purchasing power, the thing is.
Most children live to walk in the path of their parents and gambling and financial management must be properly and thoroughly thought through before exposing our kids to them, for this kid to have wasted such huge sums of money on gambling and women one night.

We have seen many cases where a child is allowed to spend money his father gave him without any lessons on how to save his money or use their money for their own good. And his parents always pampered and obeyed their children's wishes. This makes their children arrogant and wants all desires to be achieved immediately, even though it is not necessarily good for them. We certainly don't want to see our children trapped in gambling without a way out, so we must monitor their association well and not just let it go.

Every parent loves their children very much and they want their children to live a good life and their children to get freedom and establish themselves, so many parents give extra financial support to children because of their love and they give them extra financial support.  Believes in children and does not care to keep an eye on them.  Due to which many times children get more money and use that money for various illegal activities. So every parent should be aware and keep an eye on their children so that they get freedom but do not indulge in any kind of vices.

In all means our children will follow the footsteps of the parents. By the time it is our responsibility to lead them in the right path. Such a mentality should never arise within a child. Financially free could end up in danger, so it is always good to teach them (make them understand how parents are struggling to make money). This will make the children to spend responsibly and know their limits.

On the time that you had so much  money as a parent then most of the time we do really miss out those important things that we must do specially on parenting which we had forgotten on how to handle up things

when it comes to parenting.Even the things turns out not to be that good to be shared nor shown into our children but due to casual activity then it did turn out to be just a normal thing into you

which its true that our children would easily mimic and follow out on what we are doing.Considering that you dont have any problems when it comes to finances then doing things is much more simpler.
We know that having more money or financially capable could almost do everything on what they do really have in mind.

I like those words that you use, if you can't be responsible why bother to take the responsibilities of being a parent, it will just messed those kids life, better to learn how to be responsible and prepare yourself to the obligation before taking the responsibilities, though it really a tough job to anyone, but internet is not the good venue to prepare your kids with what kind of world they will going to face when the time comes, it should be the guidance of the parents physically and mentally that will be established in them to be responsible.

Gambling is not the problem in general but the way you respond with gambling is the problem, if you engage too much and get addicted for sure it will ruined your life, but if you are responsible and you are just enjoying, then it serves as pastime for you to relax.

We fail to apply it on our own so we are only passing it to our kids because they are still young and it was not too late for them to change but some kids are not that obedient to their parents. What they only want to follow is their own self because they like it more than to what is suggested to them.

The lifestyle of the parent can affect the child because they are only living on one roof and it's hard to hide all the action that parents are doing to their kids and even if they try to, their kids are sometimes going to be curious to peek on them and then discover their secrets. I don't know if how mj start but he is now freaking rich. He won't worry anymore so he is only spoiling his kid.

Bad kids can be raised anywhere, either in the village or in the city as long as they don't get the good parenting they need. A child can be given out to a village and end up being abused and grow up with that mentality, get the wrong impression of people around them and use that sense to communicate with people and the same goes for the city too. However, I think the guy is trying to give priority to society's notion that children that are raised in the village usually come out to be properly raised well when compared to city boys.


I don't know if I am the only one who doesnt like a babysitter the way the world now operates, no matter what the parents do, they should always find ways to make time for the child/children, it stronger the bonds and makes the kids adhere to their ways easily.

Your family is really religious. We respect this since we know gambling is also banned in religious countries, which all of us should respect and not say anything about. You should follow what is good for you and your family and not get tempted by it. I am hopeful that you can prevent yourself from committing sin. My parents are allowing me to gamble, but they will still give me advice not to overdo it so that I can still control my losses.

I agree with you that one is supposed to take care of one's children education. I believe part of the problem is that parents in order to keep their children distracted introduce them too early to the internet, so they can stay calm watching anything on YouTube or even Twitch. In the end, in many occasions the internet is what ends up raising the child.
I believe not everyone is suitable to raise a child and should not have one if they are not willing to raise them properly.

Also, it depends on the context and culture, when I visited my family some states away, it was common to see teens and pre-teen playing lottery and cards and parents had no problem, much gambling back then in that hood.

^Definitely right and you should be their mirror, as a good example during parenting, our child will surely have a good result and probably this was not shown with Michael Jordan to his child Marcus Jordan, instead, he spoiled it, and even though it is not good he still supporting it.
Sometimes I am thinking that probably that is how way rich people treat their loved ones, they are so much busy and don't have time to watch their children during parenthood, and giving money is the only way to show their love and now become the worst which is wasting money.

Plus with having the modern and technology today on which most of our works and businesses could really be done via mobile phone or computer then we do seldom talk nor monitor with our children.

Yes, its true that it is really our responsibility as a parent on guiding our children into the right direction but due to circumstances like work or business then it cant really be avoided which we cant
really be able to monitor our children and it is one of the main problems that we do have today.

We cant just trust up these things on a nanny or other guardian.So we should really be thinking up on how we do raise up our children.