I think before anyone can provide a honest answer to the question will have to first go back to the reason why the age bracket was introduced in gambling.
The age bracket was introduced because of the huge gambling addiction happening within the youth. Yes, some adults are worse than the youth when it comes to gambling addiction at least they were mature enough to be responsible for what came after their addiction.
The problem if a gambler is not in legal age is, most likely he/she is still depending on his parents, using the given allowance for school or in other important expenses. I think the right age for someone to be a gambler is you're already independent, earning through your own hard work, and knows the responsibility. Its true that adults are mature enough to face the consequences of their action and can handle the situation without depending on anyone but sometimes thats not always the case.
I'd argue that some adults don't actually take responsibility for their addiction, the best examples would be families where abuse is quite rampant due to debts. It's either the father/mother side + the children are being physically abused due to the addiction of the other parent. Being an adult does not equate to being mature/responsible for their actions. Adults are always, ALWAYS worse than youth when it comes to actually take responsibility imo because they've ridden through time already, they know the pros and cons where as the youth is still afraid of consequences, hence why they always take responsibility to actually do something right.
@lienfaye, you're about the child age bracket but the children of these days are impatient once they are 18yrs old they believe they are independent enough and for the adult, everyone is vulnerable at some point which why I believe anyone that wants to gamble needs to fully know what she/he is getting herself into.
@Wexnident, you're right age does not define the level of someone's maturity or been responsible for her/his action cause, in the end, it depends on the personal level of understanding but I argue the adult addiction to be worse than the youth.
I think before anyone can provide a honest answer to the question will have to first go back to the reason why the age bracket was introduced in gambling.
The age bracket was introduced because of the huge gambling addiction happening within the youth. Yes, some adults are worse than the youth when it comes to gambling addiction at least they were mature enough to be responsible for what came after their addiction.
The problem if a gambler is not in legal age is, most likely he/she is still depending on his parents, using the given allowance for school or in other important expenses. I think the right age for someone to be a gambler is you're already independent, earning through your own hard work, and knows the responsibility. Its true that adults are mature enough to face the consequences of their action and can handle the situation without depending on anyone but sometimes thats not always the case.
I understand your point but it's a bit difficult. Most kids these days are doing summer jobs in my city. You either work as an intern a few weeks or just see why kind of jobs are possible in the neighborhood. For me this was my first earned money but I was only 14-17. If I think now that at this are I would have the chance to gamble with it I probably would have done so. But my understanding of risk and reward at that time was not there yet. There is a small chance I would have won money, but it's more likely that I would have gambled until I lost it all. We really need to be carful with letting minors gamble.
@Mauser, that's the point because they are more vulnerable than the adult and if we are not careful about the minor gambling our society will be affected and most future will lose their dream along the road.
I think before anyone can provide a honest answer to the question will have to first go back to the reason why the age bracket was introduced in gambling.
The age bracket was introduced because of the huge gambling addiction happening within the youth. Yes, some adults are worse than the youth when it comes to gambling addiction at least they were mature enough to be responsible for what came after their addiction.
younger generation mostly doesnt know how to handle extreme situations. but with adults, they have experience life in so many ways already, so it is assumed that they know how to handle themselves.
with simple financial probs, some youngsters will make undesirable decisions for themselves. because they are not ready to face the real world yet, they can commit extreme solutions for themselves like taking their own life like this
case .
That's what it is.
