Topic: Youth Gambling - page 4. (Read 728 times)

There is difficulty for the youth to gamble because they don't have an ID unless they might use the ID of their parents just to gamble if needing a KYC. Also if the youth still has parents he should be guided by them because it can really ruin his education and life. That is why parents should always check on their children and guide them whenever they are kind of lost in their path.

There are still hard-headed children for sure but still it is the parents duty to guide and help them mostly if they are doing gambling and make him understand the risk of it.

Parental guidance is very important to know the activities of their children because now it is easy to do what is done on cellphones including gambling which is done in hiding, so this is difficult to supervise unless they come to land gambling.

I will oppose any teenager still in education he should not gamble before making his own money and is over the age of 18+ which is the average age gambling is legalized in certain countries.
If they are not responsible and wise in gambling then this needs to be avoided.

Theft is still a bad thing even if it is a small amount.  There is a tendency that due to gambling minors to steal a small amount from their parent's stash may develop the hobby of theft and might rob an establishment one day or steal from others.  This is another reason why the government does not let minors engage in gambling activity.  I also read that thread and as far as I know that student is a gambling addict and he already did that spending his school funds to gambling once before the incidents of spending his and his classmate school fund before committing suicide.

How can people be so stupid to the extent of using your school fee and money for other important things to gamble,such person is not yet ready for life because he hasn't really known how making money is hard that's why it won't mean anything to remove the money that has been kept aside for some other important thing to gamble forgeting that no game is guaranteed anywhere.There is no assurance over any game,all games can cut,therefore,it isn't adviceable to use any money that is so important to you for any thing that relates to gambling or anything in the form of gambling.And for the aspect of youths gambling,I think it's an experience one needs to have so he would know how to advice other people coming after him about gambling and it addiction.

I hard a terrible news some time ago of a teenager who commits suicide over failure to pass his ssce exams,  SSCE exam os the final exams in high school in my country and is written year,  and the teenager still have many chance to retake the exam and possibly clear his papers,  bit the that wasn't conceive in his head and at that he channelled all his energy in the wrong direction and allow depresion to set in.

Something can happen with gambling if not properly checked it resultant effect on the mental health of its victims is so bad that young lads can't comprehend it at any time.

You're giving these minors a lot of leeway in their judgement. Not too long ago news broke out of a minor that killed themself after burning through the money that was supposed to be paid for their tuition. And while I agree that for the most part they see suicide as the answer when they feel like they are in a deep pinch, the problem is that this "deep pinch" is a little subjective so to speak. What may seem so minor to us may feel like the whole world to them. What we can only make sure of ourselves is that push comes to shove they believed there's no solving their problem when they thought of and did the ordeal.

Which is why gambling should be banned for minors, they don't have the fully-developed brains to think things through and are more prone to committing blunders than most adults.

Nah, small losses to commit suicide? Nope I don't believe that much. What I believe is  a bit worse than that eventually. Small losses isn't noticeable on the parents end, so they'll come looking to take money from their parents to try and feed their gambling urge. Suicide comes after when the kid is in deep trouble eventually that it hurts him emotionally, especially when being confronted with the parents for being crazy about gambling.
I remember someone posted a student who committed suicide because he lost all his money from gambling intended for his studies.

We are all susceptible to addiction. And with young ones, they have higher risk tolerance which exposes them to gambling. People below 18 would not be aware of the consequences of their losses unlike with adults, which I think why younger individuals are being too hooked up in this industry. Realization comes earlier with adults ‘coz they value their losses more than younger people who are most of the time using money from their parents.Studies have associated addiction and gambling of young individuals to their brain structure and development. But a more sinple way to explain is that young gamblers are having a harder time quitting ‘coz they are not aware of how hard it is to earn money to just be spent in gambling.

This can only happen if they lack the guidance they need and educate them about the harmful effects of gambling, both the government and parents should protect the well-being and the future of young people because this is their hope for their country's better tomorrow, some countries are banning gambling in all their forms or restrict access of the youth to gambling platforms.

The worst that could happen to our youth is to lose their future because of gambling addiction, so parents should check for any sign or hint that their children are hooked on gambling, it's harder to cure a youth than to mature people who got addicted to gambling and so many time will be wasted.

I wouldn't say that they'll straight up just think of suicide as an option to avoid their problems, but you are right that the youth of today doesn't have that much ability to try and work their way out of a difficult situation. They'll resort to a lot of self-pity instead of looking for viable solutions to their problems. I know a few people in the workplace who are like this, and honestly, they are not the best people to be around. Perhaps you can make a generalization that the youth aren't to trusted in gambling, especially in their early years. If they develop a habit of just resorting to self-pity and not looking for a solution to their problems, perhaps it will also be the same thing that they'll do when they're faced with a difficult situation that is caused by gambling.

If the minor get involved in the gambling,they will not have the capacity to handle the loss.They may commit suicide by the small loss in the gambling,now the children doesn’t had a huge potential to handle the loss or problem.This generation had very weak heart and easy commit suicide as compared to old generation.So it’s true,we should keep the children from the gambling.Specially the children who doesn’t have completed 18 years should stay away from gambling.The negative impact of gambling should not affect the young people.

One of the dangers of growing without parental guidance is that a teenager tends to get involved in some kind of vices that might end up destroying his or her future and gambling is one of those vices. For a young mind who do not know how to control his/her emotions, it's highly prohibited to engage in gambling and that's why gambling is only meant for adults who can be matured enough to handle their emotional feelings when losing their stakes and when they're also winning their bets.
So as a youth who's growing up and trying to find his feet financially, gambling is never a good habit to get involved in.

It's kind of hard implementing measures to prevent minors from gambling especially in online lobbies. At least when it comes to physical casinos guards can fend them off and even report them to their parents, you can't really do that with online gambling sites. Best option we're looking at right now is KYC, as it requires the user to disclose their identities which would mean they will have to give off identification records leading to these casinos knowing whether they are of 18 years old and above, but that too is a little tricky cause some casinos can either just accept every ID that comes to their database, or the minor user can use their dad's ID to get past the hard part.

Casinos and gamblers knew how bad gambling for minors is, but without a real solution to implement this, we'd have to deal with the problems it seems.

Yeah, we could say that one of the effects of the increasing popularity and easy access to online gaming is that everyone, even young people, can access it. This is even very easy to find in various advertisements with incredibly attractive promotions. And after that, not all of them can control themselves so as not to fall and become addicted to gambling. Meanwhile, gambling is very susceptible to addiction. So when they can't control it then this will have a bad impact on them, what's worse is when they are addicted to gambling which will be difficult to treat and make them aware of so that they can manage and mature themselves again before entering the world of gambling. Maybe this will be difficult to do. Therefore there must be cooperation from various parties.

Parental controls in this case are also very important. Even though we are aware that it is impossible for us to monitor children's activities 24 hours a day, at least we can establish good communication by building good quality time, and making children trust us to discuss and tell stories. From here, we can see whether our children or relatives have fallen into gambling addiction or not. So that we can better understand how to deal with it wisely and well, so that children don't feel too stressed by what happens to them. Because after all, young people are usually still very emotional in making decisions and in a hurry, so they are not yet able to consider everything maturely and wisely, even though they can actually be very smart.

This is the highest number of possibility on which this age bracket could be potentially become and addict.

Gambling when drunk or high can be costly for anyone, but especially for those between the ages of 18-24 who are at the highest risk of experiencing harms from gambling.
https://www.responsiblegambling.org/for-the-public/safer-play/gambling-and-young-adults/

Numbers cant really be that precised but we do know that if you do start up on young with gambling engagement then most likely you would really be growing up with that kind of habit
on which later on you would really be affecting yourself but on the time that you are still that dependent from your parents when it comes to finances then it would really be hindering
you on playing since you dont have the funds that much and when addiction is severe then this where illegal doings would kick in on which it is really just that sad
if you do really come into this point.

There are already regulations in some countries about gambling, some prohibit it - some also limit to the age of teenagers usually at the age of 18+ or 21+ but I know that all of them are now difficult to prevent because of the ease of accessing casinos online anywhere and anytime.

At a young age they still do not have a full sense of responsibility for gambling and they play maybe just to get money quickly, but if it has become an addiction then this will clearly interfere with other plans even to education for the future, this can only be prevented by the closest person to avoid more severe addiction.

True that, I also agree that youth should be well informed about gambling not by engaging in the activity but through seminars and lectures.  I think the current education system must put importance on gambling awareness.  This way youth will understand the reason why they should not involve themselves in gambling activity at a young age.  Aside from that, I also agree that parents should be the ones to initiate this gambling awareness for their kids.  

Those successful stories made out of gambling are the reasons why these young individuals have resorted into gambling believing that they will easily get rich here just like what those successful gamblers have experienced. As an outcome, they become hesitant to finish their education first and chose to gamble instead because of the winning opportunities that it comes to offer. At the end of the day, they only come to realized that there's more opportunities to lose in gambling than to expect consistent winnings.

Many of the young people gambling for the sole reason of making money out of gambling, to them the fun and entertainment believed to be derived from gambling is not just secondary but it's something that doesn't count at their stage.

When you're enveloped with this orientation about why you are gambling you're easily susceptible to the mental and emotional ills of gambling which if not attended to in time can cause certain disorder to your person and career going forward.

This has been the issue since then, exposing young’s mind into gambling is not acceptable and in my place, you’ll be in trouble if you do gamble under age. There’s a lot of bad side if you let young people go into gambling and for me there’s no positive side aside from them learning that gambling is not an easy money scheme, because it will always depend on your luck. If you know someone who are already into gambling and still young, better to talk to them and asked them if they are still ok because losing in gambling can be more depressing and those young people can’t handle much of their emotions yet.