I think the lady believed her father. Maybe the lady never imagined that her father would become so addicted to gambling. I will never say gambling is bad but I will not support using other people's money or any necessary money to gamble. If the woman knew her father was an addicted gambler, she would never give him the money. When a gambler loses more money in gambling he tries to recover that money whether he is addicted or not. If luck favor then many can recover the money but most of the time it is difficult to recover the loss at that moment.
I am sure that the woman did not know that the money sent to her father was used for gambling, if she found out then she would be very disappointed and maybe she would not send anymore money or limit the money to be sent to her parents, the father should have been self conscious not to use that money in gambling activities because his father is very dependent on the economic needs of his son's income, it is better for the old man to stop gambling without his own income and the best solution is to enjoy old age without gambling addiction.
I agree with you that in old age most of the time one has to depend on one's children so wasting their money on gambling is bad. Here it is very difficult to recover losses because gambling depends on luck therefore, stop gambling and prepare yourself to try to understand the various harmful aspects of gambling addiction. Addicts often don't want to think about it or don't remember it. Instead of this habit, you have to prepare yourself by analyzing the symptoms or the reasons behind the harmful effects. At least I have to come to the conclusion that I want to quit gambling only then old age will be beautiful.
Whenever money arrives to a person, it happens that that person is free to spend it, if they want to spend it in a casino that's fine, if they want to spend it in any other case, that's their problem, but what should be understood is that a habit has already been created, things go more for what they want or what they want to do, there is nothing else there, in the game, regardless of age, anyone can become addicted and they can do things that they did not do before, sacrifices or even some who are so addicted to casino do not eat because that money is used to bet in the casino and that is something that happens in most cases.
Age in this case does not matter, there are young people who are addicted and are very young, even so they suffer from addiction problems that do not let them live their lives in peace, and they can do many things, but here who has to act correctly is the person who is sending the money, to ask what the money is spent on, to show him, with so much technology out there , a video call or something is enough, you always have to be very aware, when a person is older you have to be more pending because things with the elderly may have someone who disrespects them or worse still takes advantage of them, in this case it is not like that, but the woman must have more supervision.
The fact that money is sent, with a lot or little Effort, is something that has to be seen as a nice gesture and for it to be totally complete, you should at least ask, or have a special person inform you of what has been spent your money, because I am sure that you will stop buying basic things just or play in a casino, I agree that you play in a casino, but that it is not the full money, because it is easy for you to lose it, that you have a small amount of space play , so you don't get out of line with your things and you can enjoy the game , sometimes playing with little money is exciting, and first play in demo mode so that you can have more experience when playing with real money, otherwise all the money they send you It will be for the Casino..