Topic: The challenges of protecting children from gambling (Read 419 times)

Your view is correct because despite the global changes there are things that need to restrict children out of it, as the name implied, children it means their decision is not certain it's best that they reached the point of making good decision before venturing into such game of gambling.

Early involvement of children in gambling can't yield good results but destroy the child because it will turn to addiction and can't be control as those decisions where made from childhood.

Age restrictions are on all the physical gambling areas as well as virtually. But virtually if parents and other family members are not aware of their children then there is almost no possible to prevent their children from gambling. Because The children may use the gambling account of their parens as well as of other family members.

Well for me I do not think children belong any where near gambling. Gambling is only for adults and it is like drinking and smoking. Not something for children to do.
But if they are older and want to take their chance that is up for them to choose. My nephews play some games on their phones that is like gambling but I do not think so addictive.

Op in most cases gambling starts from home u der the supervision of the parents and some time it is unknown to them and sometimes.they know that the child.is playing normal games. And sometimes he would be playing games online with friends to win a price and all those ones are part of the gambling awareness at home and unknown to the parents. I have seen a 13 years old boy was playing online game in Facebook and was telling me that if he won they would give him a reward.of $50 and he was playing that game every day. But I didn't stay with them.to see the end.
And this boy was even told to do that by his mother. So to prevent children from gambling is hard because if they didn't learn at home then peer pressure from the group. And also I have also seen a father told his son to go the betting hall to give money to the bookmarkers to print gambling slips. And all these ones are part of the practice. And if you want to or don't want them to involve in gambling then we have to prevent them from all di ramifications. No sending and no video games for them at home.

Gambling is not for children when he is addicted to gambling from a young age he will go towards further destruction. As far as I know the biggest challenge to protect children from gambling is to make them aware about gambling. Every thing has both good and bad sides these should be explained and warned. Many times it is seen that if the environment is bad children get involved in gambling so they have to be controlled by keeping the environment favorable.

The best way to protect your children is to talk to them.
Before even talking about gambling, you need to have a trusting relationship with them, you need to demonstrate that you are an intelligent and responsible parent, they need to understand that what you say is correct or with the intention of protecting them.

Your children also need to trust you to tell you when something is not right, and you to trust them that they are doing things right.

If this is not possible, it is possible to use technology to track them and also find out what they do online, but this will be a temporary solution... at some point they will have the autonomy to do what they want and go where want.

Dialogue and trust, this is the best way to protect our children.

If gambling is actually ban or consider illegal in your country then I think it's going to send a lot of message to everyone, a child that grow to see that something is ban and it's term illegal will not want to try out and even if they did, the numbers will be less with child gambling compare to place where gambling is seen as a social activity and what everyone is free to do and I'm very confident that even the offline gambling will reduce with such rule.

However, I think there is freedom to social life, I don't think your country is nice by ban on gambling, it will only make people to do illegal things because some people can't just do without gambling, strick age restrictions should be okay to makes children stay away from gambling and also ban gambling advertisements from online and offline.

Sorry to sound pessimistic but I think as a people and generation, we have allwoed gambling eat deep into our system, so deep that I feel that we have gone past the stage at which gambling can be easily controlled in our societies by the governments, what I did tell you is that, governments rising up now to tighten gambling rules that prohibits under-aged gambling can no longer be effective as it ought to be, and this is because, today, with the help of technology, we now have the ability to gamble online, and we have alot of under-aged individuals who now own their own smartphones, many of this under-aged individuals are on YouTube, and they subscribe to channels that possibly promote gambling activities and other, they are at liberty of watching gambling streams, participate in casino bonuses and so on.

If such individuals have gotten themselves involved in online gambling activities even as under-aged, do you really think there is anything the government can do to bring such people out? Most especially if the casino they are playing on are casinos that does not require kyc verification from their users?.

First and foremost, parents should serve as role models first. If they can’t stop theirselves from gambling when they are with their children, then they should expect in the future that their children will also be gamblers because they were exposed into it an early age. Second, the government should strengthen rules about gambling casinos that can be seen by children. It should be moved into closed areas, so that it won’t be seen by these young minds, and set an age limit so that these children will be prohibited to gamble.

Well if they have their own gadgets like mobile phone and tablets, then as parent you need to check it from time to time and see what sites they are visiting. As for physical shops or arcades, then you have to accompany them. Just like in thread about claw machine thread wherein it was like sort of gambling already as it involves money and subconsciously they could have been gambling for all we know.

However, we can be there for them 24x7 and so the best weapon is to just really educate them and let them know the bad effects of gambling in their lives if ever they fell on it. Just be open minded about our kids now, it's a different generation and everything is online now.

The world today is filled with technology and it has make everything so open and this also applies in the field of gambling and since it's a fast growing industry and aslo a lucrative one for the businessmen and that's why they are pushing it up everywhere and making it exposed to everyone and with this kind of level of exposure that the society has it is very difficult for anyone especially the children to not being influenced by this kind of exposure.

In my opinion I think that if we give the steering of a car on that person who don't have knowledge about driving then how danger will be the situation is kind same will be for if children under as people play gambling. To protect our children we have to aware them the negative sides of gambling and when they play it. And always get them far from the any kind of interesting ads of gambling.

I’m not really bothered about the physical shops and parents stopping by to place a quick bet as that I can tag as carelessness from the parents but I’ve you thought of how they can’t be limited from the use of internet and the very high rate of advert for gambling platforms?
There is no single day I open my browser and internet without hearing an advert about gambling, either from google ads to promotions from content creators and I’m actually tempted to ask if the internet space if even safe for children anymore.
These topic of children and gambling is a very broad topic and we shouldn’t try to squeeze all the sun topics into just one but rather we just tackle each challenge extensively before moving to the next one.

it's better that our child will hear it from us than they hear this from other people, and even if they don't ask, let's observe them in what they're doing, we won't invade their privacy, so we'll just observe a little. we will do it because there are other children who are not used to opening up or asking their parents. It's also good if you have casual me time or family time to talk about different things about life and you can insert the one about gambling using the right explanation about it. We can no longer control what is happening around us or how the posters about gambling are spread publicly because of course advertising is part of the business so we must ourselves make a way about how our children will look at what they watch or read about gambling.

Anything internet is hard to limit people from, you can protect your children from offline gambling for you can not protect them totally from online gamble, there are different sources were they can gamble from the internet. But the only way I think you can stop them is by not sending fiat to their bank accounts you can give them money on cash but don't give them through the internet because it would be easier for them to fund their betting accounts then physical fiat.

Where I live, gambling is an activity that is prohibited because it is considered against the rules or illegal. However, it is felt that this is still not enough to limit our children from the world of gambling, because in fact the challenge of protecting children from online gambling is more real than offline gambling or physical casinos. This is because today's life cannot be separated from the internet and cyberspace, where online casinos often carry out promotions there, and not to mention the content or shows made by gambling streamers. So there is a possibility that our children will be influenced by these advertisements and shows, and in the end they will gradually enter the world of gambling. In fact, there is nothing wrong when they gamble, because this is just a form of entertainment, but because their thoughts and actions are still considered unstable, there is great concern that their gambling activities could have a bad impact on their lives and future.

I have already written about this on several occasions. In my country, advertisements about casinos are everywhere, on the streets, on TV, on the radio, and on the internet... casinos are almost on every corner, and they are clearly visible. It's almost impossible to protect kids from this. My kids are young now, and they don't ask too many questions, but I am already thinking what will I say to them when the time comes... and for now, I don't have any clues. I guess I will wait for them to grow up and try to postpone these explanations as long as possible. When the right time comes I will try to explain all the positive & negative sides of gambling, I think it will be better for them to hear it from me than from someone else.

This is what makes it hard for you to monitor them up completely on which we know that they can access on everything with their smartphone and you arent that someone whose really that been able to see and monitor on what are the sites
or things that they've been accessing in silent. This is why you cant really be able to blame out directly into those parents who had been that also trying out their very best on having that kind of monitoring into their kids. It is really just that these
technology are really that so hard to tell on what they are watching or following with. This is why the only thing you can do is to preach them about into the things which arent supposed to be engaged or or something that you would be needing to avoid. It is really that a very tough challenge as a parent nowadays on where you cant really be able to monitor everything but well it doesnt mean that you would really be stopping there as a parent. It would really be always our responsibility
on how we would gonna handle them and if we do see they are acting odd or something that not right then it would be always best on having that approach and asking them on whats wrong.
Be open minded to them and really that guiding them as best as you could as a parent, we might not be perfect but at least we do our very best.

It was very easy before for the parent to control what the children actually had access to; that was in the old days, but not now that the children have access to smart phones. Even child control settings on those children's phones don't help enough, as they can figure out ways to access whatever they want to access. 
 
The parent can't limit their gambling activity when they are around their kids, and they still have control over themselves. When they see the child coming of age little by little, they should try and get the child educated about how gambling works and what it could lead to so that they will be aware and get the lesson from not just an experienced gambler but also their parent. That way, it will help put them in the right place.

I think it's irresponsible of a parent to take their kid into a casino or sports betting shop. Parents have a very crucial role to play in this. They have to constantly educate the kids not to gamble and let them know that while gambling is not illegal, it is not allowed for kids below the age to gamble in that jurisdiction making it a crime for them to be involved in gambling, both online and offline. It's just like constantly warning them against smoking.

Also, casinos and sports betting outlets should have a strict policy against underage gambling. If a kid comes to gamble in their shop they should ask for an ID. I know kids can always get fake IDs but that will limit the rate at which they gamble.
Another thing is the government having strict laws against it too. If you allow a kid to gamble in your shop without an ID, you face a penalty. So asking for an ID is a way of freeing yourself from any punishment if it's a fake ID.

A lof of the job of keeping the kid off gambling is the parent's. With advancing technology, parents have to keep looking for ways to build a bridge of trust with their kids so when they tell them not to involve in a thing they listen.