Topic: under-age gamblers - page 4. (Read 1026 times)

In our province here in the Philippines, there are younger than that, that play card games. They usually play lucky9 or Tong-its, a very common card game here in the Philippines. Most of the time, these young girls and boys are exposed early to gambling because their parents are gamblers too. So, they also play the same card games their parents play.

I do not have the statistics but not all of these young gamblers end up addicted to it. Some of them get addicted, that is true but not all of them. Some of them grew up and gave up gambling. They became focused on their education and became successful in their life.

Maybe there is a higher risk that you will become addicted when you are exposed early, but it still depends on the person's priority. If he prioritized gambling, then he can be an addict. But if prioritized sport or education, he can easily leave gambling behind even when exposed early.

It is possible that the guys is just an errand boy.  It is normal in a family where the father or older member of a family is a gambler to ask their kids to run an errand for them.  I think the one you saw fall under this situation.


It will definitely affect the kid.  First, it will be inculcated in his mind that gambling is normal since the older member of the family engages in gambling and they even ask him to run an errand for them to bet in a game.  Second, if the kid saw that the bet win, he will have an idea that gambling is a good way to earn money thus, he will gamble his money with an intention of getting a huge profit.  

In a scenario where a kid is already engaged in gambling, it would be disastrous if not guided because the kid is exposed and possibility of developing gambling addiction.

The hardest thing for youth who gamble is how to keep up with the money he learns to lie and he learns to steal and this will totally corrupt him and will take away his future

Lack of regulation and corruption in operating the betting places contributed to youth gambling if these operators just implement what's on their license underage bettors cannot bet, but they are profit driven and they don't care about who is their bettors.


It's really disgusting to see that, you can report that to authorities here in our place operators never do that because they will get their license revoked and our government ordered a mandatory placing a visible notice that underage are not allowed to place bets, if the youth donot see a sign like that he'll think that he can bet.

Gambling won’t be an ideal source of living, one thing that minors these days failed to realize as what they are only considering is that when they hit the jackpot through gambling, it will definitely bring big changes to their family’s lives. Yes, they may get beginner’s luck while they are starting, but that won’t guarantee consistent profits while they keep on betting. In the end, they will only realize their mistakes if they fall into gambling addiction which I think will be hard anymore to escape from gambling, especially for minors who can’t even handle their lives properly.

Under age gambling have so many side effects on children such as stealing, addiction and distraction to their educational lives. It is hard to stop these kids because from the age of 14-15 years,youth exorbitance will come into play,they will want to do everything they see people doing and are easily carried away with it because they lack self control.
It's not only gambling but so many other habits, government in the advanced countries are trying their best to regulate gambling from these underage kids,it is only in the third world countries that underage gambling is rampard.

Indeed, under-aged gambling is a thing that should be greatly discouraged, one of the side effect I know that is with under-aged gambling is that, it is more easier for under-aged to get addicted, under-aged due to the fact that their brain hasn't developed to its full capacity can easily get addicted to any thing they focus on too much, not just gambling.
And in terms of regulation, my question would be, what are the parents of this under-aged gamblers doing to save their children? We can't leave everything to the government all the time, parents should start learning to take care of their children, if per-adventure gambling destroys this children, the government won't be blamed but the parents.

Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who smoke cigarettes and weed, drink booze, gamble, and do many underage things that they shouldn't do. I have to say it's a bit about the genetics as well, back in the day after 13-14 years old, kids would be enlisted on the army and go join wars, you think all those historical wars that we hear today were between adult people? All those "Rome attacked germanica with 40 thousand men" really meant men over 18?

Maybe over half of that was kids under 15, and even if not that much, it was a good chunk of it. So the body is not developed to be "not a kid" after 18, it's developed to be "not a kid" after 13, that is the problem.

Gambling will became an addiction when you are interested in thrills. Because gambling give us surprise and gift after a game. As compared to treasure, it also get your all money. Because it had a risk factor. If you play the bet match in your school days, you will be the gambler for now. Because gambling is more or like bet match. If you win the match, you will have a reward. Incase you lose the bed, you need to pay the opponent some money. Gambling is like bet matches. We can use this for the fun at the needful time.

Unfortunately, that's true. Kids cannot be stopped, especially in the digital space. Nowadays it is not difficult for a child to buy drugs on a dark market or even more so to play in a casino, if that is what they want. In the same way non-traditional values are promoted when Snow White is shown as a man in a cartoon, for example. I'm not talking about teenagers who are 15-17 years old, they have already got their minds set. The digital world has a very strong influence on young children. And gambling is probably not the biggest problem.

And everything would really be starting from home on which it is really just that normal for us guardians or parents on leading them the way which trying out to explain or guide them as much as we could on things

that wont really be messing out their lives ahead.We guardians are aware already on what are the probabilities for these things to happen if we do really that spent up money and time that much.

It is really just cant be something be easily handled out by a minor which they would really be that easily get hooked up.They might able to stopped when they dont have
money but as addiction is really be a part then they would definitely starting on doing some stealing or in correlated to this.

It may be inevitable to happen that kids will explore gambling whether we like it or not however I don't think it's appropriate to let them be. At least, let them know that what they are doing shouldn't be done by kids and they must be at least a certain age bracket to do so. Just like anything, Kids can take part in things that they should not be doing such as alcohol, it's better for us adults to restrict and advise them about these things.

The government should be taken appropriate measure about this before it would get out of hand and I strongly recommended the regulatory body's to thoroughly investigate and monitor every betting shop to make sure no under age is allowed to move inside the betting hall to place a bet without tendering their means of identification to show if they are above the restricted age to place a bet.

The ease of accessing gambling sites via smartphones and computers has made many teenagers and children start to get to know gambling at this time, so It's no wonder if their continue  involved in gambling, of course it will certainly become a habit/addiction that may be very difficult to get rid of until they grow up, Most gambling sites may have made formalities to prohibit minors from gambling by implementing KYC on their sites, but that does not mean that they have closed the door for children to gamble, our role as parents certainly has a bigger contribution by carrying out strict supervision. to children so that at least they don't get caught up in gambling, we cannot fully blame gambling operators without realizing that actually children's addiction to gambling actually starts with parents who first introduce smartphones or computers to children, but parents are often negligent without  regulation and also provide education on positive smartphone use to children.

Kids are going to gamble. You can’t stop it. Kids see things and they want to take part. Gambling is no different. I recall kids in school gambling on things from as early as I can remember. Even games like Pogs were introduced to children that seemingly fueled the urge to gamble. There isn’t much that could be done as it’s easier to gamble than get your hands on alcohol as a kid. Especially with online gambling and crypto now, I don’t see this as an easily tackled problem.

I think that under-age gambling is a huge risk for the correct development of the adolescent brain. Just like with drugs, gambling releases chemicals in your brain which, if done again and again could possibly rewire the young brain in such a way, that its development becomes stunted or just completely wrong. This is not a big risk for adults because their brains are done growing (around age 21-25?, I think?).

If you see kids gambling, you should definitely intervene, as a responsible adult.

Not only for gambling, anything in excess is not good. whatever it is, if you do it excessively the side effects will not be good.  Gambling is a very enjoyable part of entertainment, and it triggers dopamine in our brains.

we all love this activity, even in this age of high technology. Gambling is not something that is taboo, to be discussed in general.  regarding underage gambling, I have to tell you. it's not only your government that has to be responsible, but at least you also have to take part in admonishing and ensuring that the child is not allowed to place bets. You can question the betting cashier, to ask why the child was allowed to buy tickets. at least, you've done something useful.

related to influencing and having a bad impact or not on the child, we will not know for sure and there is no right answer. first of all, you and I do not know him. there is a possibility if he is asked by more mature people, for example his parents or whoever it is. or maybe the kid really likes to gamble. however, to follow up regarding your inquiry. further research is needed, in this case it is the child we are discussing here.

Apart from all that, this is where the duties and roles of parents must be to provide good education to children. provide related understandings that are prohibited at their age, so that children do not do something inappropriate at their age.

If we're talking about age restrictions on betting, it's all easily circumvented, because almost every under-aged teenager has an adult acquaintance from the next yard who can both buy cigarettes in the store and place a bet.

Thinking back to myself as a minor, I can say that I did many of the things they tried to restrict me from doing. A person always tries to bypass restrictions because it's a kind of a challenge for him. Whether it's good or bad, everyone decides for himself.

20 years ago, there was no control and any kid with 12 years old could easily start gambling online. With the advent of online gambling, many of us started playing before having 18 years old, so I guess we are the generation who can better answer to that. I had a few friends that got addicted to gambling at some point but eventually they ended up finding their way.

I guess that nowadays, with KYCs and stuff, its getting very hard for kids to start gambling, but in a way, that are already "gambling" with those online pay for win games and they don't even have a chance of having a big win.

Again there's the case of this boy just running an errand for an older relative of his. Although the nonchalance on the cashier and the staff's part is a bit concerning, coz now it seems to me like they tolerate, or maybe even support this which is a little too severe if I do say so myself. People should know better to never let a child be near anything gambling-related, their young minds aren't supposed to be corrupted by something as brazen as gambling, so as adults we should all take part in ensuring the youth aren't gambling whatsoever, even if sometimes it may look as if we're dipping our noses into someone else's business. Gambling for us may mean enjoyment, but for simple minds like them it could mean profit, they could easily get addicted to it.

I started a topic here and shared the story of how my best girl was worried about her younger brother who was heavy into gambling and as result of it has even started going to the extent of stealing money to gamble with. The danger with underage addiction to gambling and gambling operators turning a blind eye on them, allowing the underaged to gamble so they can make money off of them is promoting and slowly cultivating a future where we will have many irresponsible people without self-control to discipline themselves not to indulge in criminal activities to keep up gambling.