Topic: The challenges of protecting children from gambling - page 3. (Read 469 times)

The thing we should note in this kind of discussion we need to make some clear terms and how to apply hem in our comments,  as regards to under age gambling and how the impact of this could be on the future freedom of those kids, so ket outline those objectives.

1: what a casino is from vs betting agents/store,  this is why we all have to subject ourselves to that understanding.

2: how kids love footballs games which makes them to go to betting shops to get entertained and not actually gambling,  so we need to understand this facts and how to propeller analys them.

With the current situation where the development of technology is getting faster and children's ability to catch up is quite good, it is a little difficult to limit this because sometimes even not a few parents are actually inferior in terms of proficiency in running gadgets or devices such as computers compared to their children which makes this a little difficult to overcome.
But on the other hand, as long as we are good at monitoring children's behavior, I think things like this can still be minimized. Indeed, we cannot completely limit it, but to provide an overview of which things are good and which are bad I think it is still a situation that can be done so that our children can know what they should do at their current age.

When gambling before the legalized age is the same as making them damaged because it can mature prematurely so it is important for us as parents to provide a good role so that our children do not fall into it. As for if they are already adults, that is another matter, the most important thing is to instill a good attitude of responsibility from an early age so that they know the limits and they can sort out what is good and what is bad for them later.

Believe it or not, it is difficult to prevent children from getting to know gambling because nowadays technological sophistication makes it much easier for them to get to know gambling on smartphones. But what parents need to do is control and explain the bad effects when they are involved in gambling at an immature age. Children must be told about the impact of gambling so that they know why people forbid them from getting involved in it because if they forbid it but don't explain it, then they will become more curious about learning about gambling.

In terms of physical stores, my area is much safer because there is almost no place for anyone to place a bet. Maybe there is only a lottery and even then they are not free to place bets because they will get into legal trouble. What worries me is online gambling because it is now so easy for anyone to get involved in it. Moreover, almost everyone has a smartphone and there are many sites that are always advertised on social media, making it easier for anyone to press one command.

In the areas were I lived, I have there are a lot of gambling shops the way people visits gamble shops in my environment it's something that can't be compared to other things, the registered betting shops are more than other shops in some places. However one reason why people likes gambling there is because in a week they likely get a big win. But most of them don't use their winning perfectly.
These betting shops are polluting the mindset of children, children can gamble for fun because they don't work to get the money so even when they lose it they will still be happy and they are children after all. It's not good to gamble in the front of a child/children because they learn easily.

I wouldn't want my children to engage in gambling because I am concerned about their ability to gamble responsibly. That is why I don't expose them to gambling because I hide the activity from them. The truth is that when they are mature they might end up knowing that I am gambling. Don't forget that these children are also exposed to all sorts of gambling advertisements on social media and other channels. Paraventure the child ends up indulging in gambling, the responsibility of the parents will now shift from stopping the child from gambling to helping the child to gamble responsibly. They should be exposed to how to have a gambling budget and how not to chase losses to avoid gambling addiction. His finances and time should also be monitored just to ensure that he is gambling responsibly.


Children are very inquisitive and they would definitely ask several questions about where they saw you. And you would have to tell them the truth because they will get it from someone else if you try to twist your response. Online gambling can be done secretly and they will hardly know that you are betting unless they have access to your phone.

This is the one reason why I support online gambling other than visiting physical gambling stores, because children even at tender age can read and understand, the moment they should witness their parent frequent the gambling store they become so much inquisitive to know what they do and why they do visit there and if they should realized that money can be made from such activities then they strive to give trials, unlike when dealing with online gambling, certain restrictions are placed which limits their chances of getting to know about gambling activities.

I think if any underage should be found in any physical gambling store then the owner or management should be held responsible because they failed to initiate the restrictions placed on this underage.

If the parents are gamblers it will be very difficult to protect there children from gambling because one of the things about children is that they are very smart so one way or the other they will  likely follow the foot step of the father and with that age if they eventually start gambling it will become difficult stopping them, so actually you are very correct because it will be very easy to guide the children if there parents are not a gambler.

And also just like most people above has mentioned, parents should prioritize by knowing the kind of friends there children keeps because if we check very well majority of children who venture into gambling is as a result of wrong friends because with the kind of mindset children have they are mostly vulnerable to be lured into something that could affect them in the future so is totally depend on the parents.

I think this concern is felt by all parents who already have children, especially if they know about the dangers of the impact of gambling itself, but sometimes there are some parents who are so liberating their children in their relationships and maybe that's because the parents don't care about their children or maybe they don't know about the development of the gambling world which is increasingly accessible to anyone, especially children.

I think we all know about what should be done to prevent children from getting involved in gambling, the advice is always about limiting various aspects of their lives, such as limiting their association in the outside world and not allowing them to go out alone, or that means you should always look after and supervise them and also limit their use of smartphones because it is clear that lately many casinos have made social media the biggest place to do promotions or advertisements with the aim of attracting more people to gamble, I think some of the points above are quite effective as a preventive measure.

Even as a parent, I always try to stay away from my kids whenever I am gambling the reason is because I don't want to indirectly exposed them to I by gambling in they presence thinking they are too young to understand what gambling is and how it risk pur freedom.

Until they are 18+ and ready to gamble on they own, it is better for them to develop the interests by themselves before teaching them the risk that is involved.

We face the same problem in my location because these physical bet shops have taken over almost all the streets of my city. You can hardly see any street without a betting shop. They also have large billboards advertising these bet shops indiscriminately without showing restraints to school or religious locations. I am very concerned about these gambling shops that are situated close to primary and secondary schools in my area. Although there are laws that forbid this indiscriminate location and advisement of these betting shops they are hardly implemented. Some of the enforcement officers receive bribes from these casino operators and fail to enforce the laws. It is also common to see suspected underage gamblers place bets on these casinos since they are not expected to present any form of age identification document.

As parents, guardians, or law-abiding citizens we have to do our best to limit underage gambling. As parents, we should closely monitor children and also ensure they are enlightened about the consequences of underage gambling as well as addiction. We should also be a good role model to our children by not gambling in their presence and also continually gambling responsibly. It is also our responsibility to report underaged gamblers to casino operators so that they can be blocked or stopped from engaging in gambling.

I think it was also in this forum that I read about banned gambling ads in a particular country, a country where gambling is legal, but if you post any content or information about gambling on a billboard or even on social media, you will be sanctioned by the country's authority. Part of the reason why this is done is to protect those who can't make personal decisions for themselves, and this includes children.
 
Any parent who is seen taking a child who is not of age yet into a casino house to go and gamble is not giving that child good parenting unless they are ready to take the consequences of what that action will bring afterward to the children, because taking your child on a regular basis into a gambling house can make that child make a move some day to try out what the father or mother have been doing there.

One of the hardest part of parenting is on trying out to monitor everything on where your children is really that been doing on which it would really be just that not that limited on gambling alone but also in other things as well on which it could potentially be able to influence our children in going into that path which it might really be that resulting on having that kind of bad conditions or situations or simply they are messing up. Speaking about protecting your children to gambling then as much as possible then you would really be telling them about on what are the cons of gambling, you would be needing to make them realize that as much as possible they should really be avoiding it. Somewhat it would really be just that depending on a certain child because there are ones who are really that too curious into the things around on which they wont really be stopping on trying out discover anything that it seems that looks interesting. This is why it isnt really just that right that everything would really be blamed into parents because there are really tons of scenarios that no matter how hard their parents been doing such strict parenting but there are really that those kiddos who would really be trying out their very best on bypassing things.

I agree with you friend. because of course it is clear that parents will definitely educate their children on the right things, it is impossible for them to direct their children to something that will have a bad impact in the future, such as introducing them to gambling, which I think is impossible. But are there parents who introduce their children to gambling clearly?
It's true that if this really exists, I think it's terrible, because it could ruin a child's future, even if he or she is only told to go to a betting shop to buy a lottery ticket or place a bet, it can make them interested in taking part in gambling. and of course this can have an impact on their child's future.

That's right, parents have to give extra supervision to their children in getting to know the environment, especially now that children are no stranger to gadgets and the internet where there are lots of gambling advertisements clearly displayed which they can see every once in a while, but indeed parents also definitely have their own lives include having to go to work, so they cannot fully supervise their children 24 hours a day. but if their initial upbringing is correct, perhaps their children will not do anything rash.

Could be that the authorities are less concerned about taking such matters seriously as it should and have now made it a core responsibility of parents rather than the government as an authority to do that. Although, there are gambling shops that rebukes parents that takes kids with them to their shops, they even bar the kid from entering and either sit outside wait for his/her gambling parent.

I have seen parent's coming to the gamble shop's with their underage kids and it's irksome to me when I see them doing that but on the contrary I just give a blind eye under the thought that it's not my business how they chose to groom their kids. Except in the case of those I am close I just politely talk to them about the harm and negative impact it could possibly be on their kid seeing that they embrace parents as role model to them.

Awareness of parents as role models plays an important role in this matter, as parents must guide and direct their children to good environment and avoid various activities that could have bad impact.
Even though there are many physical gambling places in the environment and also lot of online gambling advertising that can be seen on social media, it will never affect children if parents can provide extra education and supervision to their children.
But from what you have said, it is very unfortunate and incidents like this have happened lot, many parents even deliberately tell their children to go to betting shops to buy lottery tickets or place bets.
It is the fault of parents who do not consider and think about child growth and development, if something like this continues then the chances of children starting to know and dare to gamble will increase significantly.

Only way is to provide education and really supervise and limit exposure to environments that can attract children to gambling.
But this will require lot of time and the majority of parents cannot do it due to work reasons.

I must confess that is a difficult thing say because we can't control this from them, especially when their parents can't even control themselves while they are with their kids. Sometimes we felt they don't know or take records of what we are doing, they are surly taking records probably they can start gambling secretly when the finance needed gets to their hands. There are kids under 15 that has started gambling in the village where I think things are much more difficult for them and they don't have any other alternatives than to just join themselves into all kinds of hustling that could make them secure some money, and these sets of kids are too smart enough and we can't actually stops them when this feeling of gambling has taken over them. For instance, if they managed to see winning for like 2 to 4 consecutive times this will triggered their interest to keep gambling with the hope that everyday is certainly winning for them.

To stop this is to actually meet the village crier who goes around the village giving information to restrict some under age children who are gambling, with this they can enact a law to governed them that any agent who allows under age chldren to gamble will pay some specific 'fine' (ransome) to allow under age bet. With this they would like the children, because I know no casino would allow children play without passing KYC which they must provide before either withdrawing their funds or placing games.

Relax mate, I'm not in Europe
That's how we "educate" our children... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZabye0YJGg
Thanks for the reminder, I should've put the disclaimer: may not be suitable for your culture, DWYOR.

Parents play an important role in the supervision of children to avoid addiction, then the rules of physical casinos must also be tightened maybe it will be stronger if the government supports where when parents bring children to physical casinos for fast bets then they cannot bring children but if physical casinos do not make strict rules then they are sure they just want more visitors no matter parents bring children or not.

Back to individuals who have a parental role in their children, if I myself am clear that I will avoid, while there are still many people who do not care about this.

there's nothing we can do if they see big signage on the streets because that's part of the business, advertising. As a parent, the way I can think of to prevent young people from getting involved in gambling is that while they are still children, they should be given enough knowledge or a little background on what the things they read on the signage are for, since we know how curious young people are today and so that they don't reach the point where they want to try it because they are curious, let's go ahead of them by giving them an idea of ​​what it is because we can't control what they can see or know, all we can do is properly teach and guide them.

This is completely the fault of parents as well as the government, because these are physical casinos or betting shops just like any other business and it's just that the government does not implement strict regulations that strictly prohibit minors. And also the prohibition on making large signboards on every gambling shop which in my opinion is too conspicuous is also very important, where it is better to use another name that adults know is a gambling shop.
Apart from that, parents also play a role in not inviting their children when they want to gamble and perhaps because of this there are no regulations from the government that allow parents to freely take their children to casino shops which is actually a big mistake.
And for online casinos, in my opinion, there is no solution yet because minors can do it in various ways, including KYC which can be manipulated. And for this problem, in my opinion, only parents can play a role in this problem, they must be given understanding and also prohibit that online gambling is not good. And always control when your child holds the gadget and checks it, as well as blocking all gambling sites on the gadget, and many other ways.