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"It's time for schools to focus on the root cause of online teen gambling by implementing gambling prevention education in all high schools. Health class curricula across the nation cover the typical risks for teens such as smoking, drinking, vaping, etc yet gambling education is nowhere to be found in our schools. "

This is what Colby Cotrone said when interviewed by NBC News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDbvDDLpFg) about the article he published in NYpost (https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/lifestyle/high-stakes-for-high-schoolers-wanna-bet-teens-need-gambling-education/) about the online gambling trend among teens causing concern because, in the school halls, they can already overhear teens checking odds and their parlays like it's the most casual thing to do in the campus. This is due to the gambling apps easily downloaded by anyone.

When Marc Potenza the Director of the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research was asked whether they were seeing young patients calling for help, he said there is an increase of 90% in young males with sports gambling problems. Either the patient himself or the parents calling for them. https://youtu.be/pCDbvDDLpFg?t=313

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?


And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

The gambling industry is growing into more a trillion dollar industry and there are more people who are gambling now than ever before and it is increasing. Sadly on the underaged gambling is also on the rise and if it is not checked it becomes a epidemic that may be difficult for countries and government to control. Right now, it is still at the starting stage and the government needs to act fast. I know they are doing a lot of TV, radio, internet campaigns against under-gambling but they need to take it a bit further by going into schools, and yes inputting preventing gambling education in schools. They need to have counselors talk to students about the dangers of gambling addiction and having an open door policy for students to be able to freely talk about their struggles with gambling and then offering them help three of charge.

Implementing gambling prevention education in schools, to me is never the best solution when it comes to gambling and other vices such as smoking & alcohol, but rather teaching these teens about the advantage and disadvantages of gambling is the best solution ever, because you never can tell, a child who was prevented, can travel to a certain area, and turn to an addict, simply because he/she wasn't told the basic advantage or disadvantages of his action. Hence, if we make education about gambling a priority, and how it affects the society both positively and negatively, I'm sure there are teens who are also likely pick a side with the knowledge acquired.

Secondly, if massive jobs are created, most teens you see today gambling won't gamble, as more than 50% of the teen you see today, gamble for survival. (I.e For basic amenities such as food, shelter and clothing)

That's the bad side of online gambling, you can't really control the users you get, even with the under 18 rule, teenagers can just lie and still get access to gambleing features, I think they have to get more strict and find better ways to keep teenagers off gambling sites, maybe by taking some birth certificate as part of their kyc verification, I think that would reduce the amount if teenagers in online casino.

It is a bureaucratic process for the school curriculum to be reviewed and the whole thing may take a lot of time if any subject like gambling prevention is going to be implemented into school education.

Do not wait for the school to teach your children the things that you could teach them from home, sometimes your children will learn better from you than they learn from their your teachers because they see you as a better example than a teacher that they don't know.

Trying to prevent your children from knowing about gambling at all will not help because you do not follow them around and there are lots of gambling advertisements everywhere even from their peers, as a parent or a guardian it should be your responsibility to expose them to it at home and intimate them on the dangers and why it is necessary for them to become adults first before they start gambling.

Exactly, the internet now is too powerful, and even young people can navigate the internet well and can bypass a lot of things, and one of them is online gambling. It's true that many younger people are being exposed to gambling because right now the internet or social media are open to this, and we know a lot of young people are already on social media. No matter what guidance a parent will give, they can't look out for or guide their children's 24/7, so there's still a moment where a child could explore for itself and be in a bad influence.

That's why KYC is very important now for an online casino because in that way a platform could determine what age their customer is. I know it can also be bypassed, but I think there should be more adjustment or another layer of validation before a user could actually sign up and play on a gambling platform.

If gambling prevention education is done for below 18s, it will even help those above 18s that were taught the lesson during their under 18 ages. I will like to see this kind of thing but I do not think it would be possible.

The best education children can have is from home. Parents should start teaching their children gambling prevention education. So that if the children wants to gamble later when they are grown ups, they will know they should use small amount of money which would have been part of the education.

There is a reason that children are excused from certain crime until they are up to certain age and that is because of their capacity to reason, to know good from bad and that is the intentional act unlike the adult that the ignorance of the law is not excuse. So it is excusable for kids to gamble in ignorance and when they use money from their parents to do that, they are still not going to be blamed, and so who will be blamed if the kids turn to gambling, that is the parents. The parents are to be blamed when their children take to gambling especially at a certain age. Children don't just grow up to gambling, no. They grow into seeing their fathers doing it. Therefore, it is very important that children are guided, if the father avoid gambling in the presense of the children, then they are already limited from knowing that from the home. Further guide is the school and friends. And some parents don't give a damn what the children are doing with their android phone which has already made gambling easier for them.

It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing about implementing gambling prevention education in schools, but in my opinion the most likely action is implementing a rule of not having a smartphone before the age of 18 which is better to prevent perceived hostility towards online gambling.

Preventing gambling is the same as blocking income from taxes because the gambling industry has set an age limit for players who can play.
By implementing the rule that students cannot have smartphones, children's psychology is much more developed with natural experiments.

IMO, it's because the easy advertiser can be published by the casino.

Like, mostly we all know these kids know about gambling is not because of watching (TV), or seeing sponsors on bars, billboards or t-shirts. Mostly they're getting the information about gambling from streamer/youtube. Gambling casino are easily to advertiser their site with them, and we all know the audience mostly 70-80% are under age. Due everyone access via online, it's make gambling more easy on online rather than in landbase casino.

If authority want to take these case really seriously, they need to step in for any kind of sponsor in stream site/youtube and something like that.

Parents teach their kids from very beginning that everything cost money in this world. Parents teach kids about investing, at least how to do purchases in store. And the kids say that they were not aware what they were doing when they placed a money bet? I dont believe in that. I dont expel the fact that the gambling problem exist, but such excuse as "we did not know what we were doing" is lame.

Generally speaking, th whole school curriculum needs to be changed or improved upon to meet with what's the reality of the present day society.

Topics like gambling, financial literacy, marriage and relationship, updated carrier options and other relevant issues that really butresss on what's prevalent at the society now needs to get into the curriculum and taught in a such a way that they don't just paint the bad side of these concept but put in effort to create a neutral ground such that theses kids don't feel as though they are being deprived access to these kind of things without telling them the reason why it's not advisable to go into active gambling as a teenager.

Believe it or not, an average 10 year old boy now knows how betting works and is very conversant with all the clubs and when they have spare resource, they go all out into betting all their money out. And these are the people that end up becoming seriously addicted to gambling when they eventually grows up. Catching our kids young require that they be educated to learning the right thing at the right time and in the right way and gambling education is a must topic that needs to be taught in our school or else we end up having young adult or will have the mentality that they can always get a big win through gambling and then thier life will change forever thereby lazying around gambling all day.

I do agree, and it used be a billion dollar industry, but gambling now whether online and offline are a billion dollar industry. Perhaps it has something to do with the pandemic when everyone is at one doing nothing or got bored and then we see the rise of online platform.

Anyhow, yeah, even here in our neighborhood I have seen a lot of teenagers going into online gambling. And just a couple of days ago I know someone who won big, but then again in the next couple of days he losses everything and now can't focus on his studies because he has tasted that huge money and wanted to repeat the same experience. And it's really a bad influence to the underage or youth and we really need parents to be very mindful of their kids so that they won't be addicted to it.

Indeed, the development of technology now makes everything easier, including gambling. now that online gambling has made it easier for everyone to get to know it, because many people spend their daily lives on the internet and social media and the gambling industry also takes advantage of this by placing as many advertisements as possible on the internet so it is not surprising that many people are familiar with online gambling and do online gambling, especially for those who are teenagers or adults, of course they will occasionally see gambling advertisements on social media because the majority of young people use social media in their daily lives, even for studying, sometimes they use the internet and social media.

It's true what you say about parents who cannot guide and supervise their children all day long, but parents' upbringing and guidance is of course necessary, even though there are times when they will determine their relationships, parents' upbringing also influences them, if parents educate and guide them properly. good and right, maybe his child will be able to differentiate between good and bad things. As long as I gamble online on various platforms, I have never registered on a gambling platform and written down my age, but is there a platform like that?

Isn't education about gambling prevention or gambling addiction has been exist since long time? I remember there was few non profit organization conduct a seminar when I was a kid.

This has been implemented, but students won't be in school for 24 hours, they can stop playing their phones in school, but they can freely play it when they're in home. If you complain why the parents let they to play phones in home instead of restrict them, you need to know if their parents are busy. His dad need to work all the time, while his mom need to take care the house and anything everyday.

I did be surprised if anyone said he or she did not see this coming, judging from the way that inflation have more than tripped the cost of every thing in that world, which also generally include in the cost of living which have more than tripped over the years.
Clearly, some parents can no longer provide for their kids any more like they used to, so this kids and teens have to find the easiest way to provide or fend for themselves, and this is why alot of them are turning to gambling as a way of making money for themselves while in school.

Personally, I do not think introducing a gambling education will be productive in reducing the number of teens that are already into gambling, and stopping those coming in, I think rather, that introducing gambling education will be counter-productive in the sense that, it may end up acting as a gambling advertisement to the young ones who are yet to get into it, we all know that teen of nowadays want to explore, and are most likely to do that which they are advised not to do.

The only solution I think is for the government to work very closely with both online and offline casinos to impose stricter rules and punishment for any teen who is not up to the specified age, that is caught gambling, this I think will be more effective in reducing and curbing the number of underaged teenage gamblers.

I agree that it should be implemented.
The growth of the gambling industry is too fast. Advertisements of gambling applications are plastered all over different sports either while the game is going or in commercials. Then, there's the advertisements on the internet so everywhere they look they will see these ads and at one point they will click it because they are too curious about it.

There's the wrong thing, it becomes money first before "fun as a fan". It should be the other way around. Because if we always think about the money first, we tend to get revenge and then chase the losses by doubling the amount next time we bet unlike those having fun as a fan first, they might just bet the same amount over and over again because they are just looking for that additional spice while watching their favorite sport.

I have also remembered something like this during my high school year. Though it was not part of the curriculum, If I remember it correctly it was a twice a year kind of student seminar called career development. It discusses how to become successful with choosing ones career and how avoid being addicted with bad vices and that includes gambling.
Well, in todays generation, if students got involve in an online gambling, then I think the schools and educators should get a separate education that focuses the effects of gambling and the regulators should do their part as well, otherwise these numbers would surprisingly spike multiple times in the next coming years because of its easy accessibility.

I don't complain about the busyness of parents who spend time working for the sake of family life which includes the needs of children.
From me, perhaps there is no solution that can be conveyed here regarding this matter other than preparing yourself when one day you become a parent because initially I thought that the implementation of the rule that children under the age of 18 cannot have a smartphone had not yet been implemented.
My initial conclusion after reading your post means I can't say whether I agree or not because I'm stuck with ideas.

Gambling education could have been existing since a long time ago but not common or not existing in some countries. I can say that there is nothing like gambling education in Asia and Africa. I do not think it is common in North America, Europe and South America and Australia. We only even saw this today but which could be ineffective. What we noticed more is that gambling is becoming more common among teen and the under aged are not given a better education on gambling.

Instead of outrightly gambling in a country, it will be better to promote gambling preventive education in high schools and colleges. This will help the country to help these young students to make good choices and avoid gambling addiction. Most young children are exposed to gambling on social media and through peer influence because they no nothing about gambling but these enlightenment programmes will guide kids and give them have basic knowledge of gambling. If these students learn about gambling from professional teachers and counsellors they might be able to get the right information about gambling instead of learning from friends and social media.

It should be done because now it's so easy to access these gaming applications and gambling platforms, and some kids are too wise to fake their documents; they also learned how to do it on the internet, the internet is an information highway they are good at exploring tips and tricks about gambling so they become addicted to it.

The school and the home should be the ones responsible for leading the young generation in enlightening about gambling and how harmful it is if they take it up at a young age like they are.

yes, educating the younger generation about gambling awareness is one of the best ways to protect them from gambling issues/problems and its increasing presence in the younger generations due to technology. not teaching them in their younger years and making them understand gambling and the issues and problems that can come with it will just make them ignorant about it and they will have no idea or very little about how to navigate through gambling issues on their own when they are finally exposed to it.

what I do believe is that why do gambling site really cares about who will gamble when they are targeting as many depositors and players they may get?that 18 and up rules is just written but they don't wanted to strictly implement that and will let those youngster lied in their details because they will only face the problem once you won and need to withdraw lol.

The root cause is accessibility and ignorance; 60 - 80% is a very alarming level that prevention and education should be implemented to lower these numbers; the lift of the ban on sports betting by the Federal court made it possible for even teens to access these betting platforms, the only way to combat these is massive education for parents and teens about the harmful effects of gambling, prevention in accessibility will also help cure addiction from children.

Here in our country, we are so strict on our teens when it comes to gambling addiction. We are a conservative country, and we protect our children through both education and restriction because we treat our children as the hope of our country, and we need to protect their welfare.

I don't really think that it would help much, we have sex education to prevent teenage pregnancy, smoking and other drugs as well is also being talked at schools so they wouldn't use it, but look around, there are still so many teenager who are getting pregnant, smoking and doing drugs,so I don't really think that it would prevent the teens from staying out of gambling.
If we really want to stop the teens from gambling, it should start at home not from the school, their parents or who are living with them should be the first to talk about it have a conversation, know why they are gambling or why they would gamble in the future so that they could prevent it.

This not true, KYC is required to verify if the players is underage or not. The problem in online casino is it’s very easy to bypass this age restriction by availing other KYC which is often being offered as service in crypto.

But in general, Casino is very strict when it comes to age restriction once you are caught, it’s just easy to bypass this restriction online that’s why it feels like casino doesn’t care at all.

this is one of the things I noticed when it comes to online gambling sites, especially that there is no verification process that happens when you create an account and sign-in, Usually there are people I know who are under 18 who can use gambling sites because they fake the identity they use to create an account, so many minors now know about different types of gambling but it's difficult because they are exposed to this activity at a young age and if you think about it, at that particular age, we can say thay some of them aren't totally matured when it comes to decisions and thinking. they are prone to gambling addiction especially if they can't control themselves. At that age, parents no longer monitor what activities they are doing, but even so, parents should check by talking to their children what they are really busy with, in that way they can even give an advice on what to do and what not to do.

Educating the younger generation about the dangers of gambling should indeed be done, with the increase in technology and gambling sites that are easy to find. As a government, we should take precautions starting from blocking illegal sites. Learning the dangers of gambling in every school, and other things that are useful to keep the easy generation away from gambling.

But back again to each young person himself. If they are already addicted to gambling, only they themselves can cure gambling dependence,

In this case, it is the role of parents who must focus more on teaching the dangers of gambling to each of their children. Prevention so that their children do not fall into negative things. And focus more on positive things

And take for example in our country, we have our local digital wallets (Gcash) in which you can access a lot of gaming platforms. And as far as I know, there are a lot of students that are falling into this gaming because it's very accessible and I don't think that they are also very strict as far implementing KYC. So it's really a very dangerous world that we live right now and if we are not very careful on children and be there at their side and guide them, they might simply fall and be an addict at a young age. So for those who are parents here, just to remind you that we have our responsibilities as well for our children, just saying.

Gambling promotions are not getting into the right people/person but they go to different classes of the society and ages.

I would agree and support how the school and other groups creating solutions to this but this is a big challenge on their part because social media is now a leading contributing factor that influences young people (and even kids) exposed to gambling. We understand that young people support sports tournaments but on the other side, they make use of this as gambling. They are having fun with sports but at the same time, they are gambling as well (illegally).

They can educate them but the question is if they are seriously listening and following it. I see that it works when parents give their participation as well and give proper guidance.

Obviously, I think what you are saying is a fact, we must remember and must understand that after all gambling is a business for casinos where the main thing they want is to make a lot of profit, and they will only be able to make a lot of profit when more gamblers come and engage in gambling and also when gamblers treat their gambling activities impulsively, so of course agree and agree with you that most likely casinos will not care too much about how old someone is, the point is if they have money then they are allowed to gamble by casinos.

It is also a fact that 18 years old is just a measure of the age at which a person has entered the adult phase of their life, but it is nothing more than a possibility, or it means that not everyone who has passed the age of 18 years old can think maturely, The evidence we can see is that there are still quite a lot of adult gamblers who experience various downturns in gambling and all of that happens because they treat gambling in the wrong way where they cannot think rationally to really be able to make wise decisions and the best for themselves, meaning that not everyone who has passed the age of 18 is mature in thinking.

So if we talk about gambling then obviously the main point is that anyone who can treat his gambling activities properly and correctly without any elements that can endanger him then he can gamble regardless of his age, and also now I see quite a lot of online casinos that can be accessed without having to do KYC first so this situation makes it easier for minors to get involved in gambling.

Keeps kids informed with the addictive nature of smoking, drugs and gambling is not a bad approach. Keeping it a part of the curriculum means at least some of the kids will read the stuff and learn something. Even then it is a personal choice to use these things. Signing up on gambling sites is no issue today and even underage kids can do that with access to internet.

Preventing such addictions start from the home, the kids need to be taught by their elders about the bad effects and shown examples of the same.

Yes, schools should implement gambling prevention education in schools to anticipate teenagers playing gambling. With the internet becoming more advanced and easily accessible anywhere, it makes it easier for people, especially teenagers, to download gambling applications. They will not realize that they have taken the risk of becoming addicted to gambling.

The school and parents need to pay attention to this and always try to supervise their children. The relationships between teenagers nowadays are increasingly worrying. This requires support from all parties so that they can pay more attention to teenagers so that they do not take the wrong path.

If parents and schools can educate children about the dangers and risks of gambling, it can help them always try to stay away from gambling or negative things. This requires cooperation from all parties so that it can run well. If these teenagers could be given more knowledge about the risks and dangers of gambling, they would see that there is no need for them to approach gambling. There are still many positive things they can do.

the problem regarding the growing trend of online gambling in teenagers is increasingly worrying, because nowadays many teenagers who should be focusing on school or developing themselves, are becoming gamblers and spending their pocket money to have fun playing online gambling. the government should be able to provide strict regulations on this matter, because when they are teenagers they should not be contaminated by gambling which will distract their focus and, even worse, cause the effects of addiction which will have a bad impact on their lives.

parents must also play an active role in providing limits and education to their children, because the best education about gambling comes from parents, so that these teenagers can understand that they should not gamble at such a young age.

They should probably introduce some sort of education about gambling in the school system as some children probably will not be educated by their parents. If people know the risks, they may be less prone to do the activity, but maybe it doesn't matter either. People have been educated about the use of tobacco, yet millions of people still smoke or chew. People have been warned about the use of different types of drugs, but millions die everyday because of them.

It feels like teachers would just be wasting their breath since people don't listen anyways.

Teenagers nowadays spend more time on social media. Meanwhile, many online gambling advertisements can be found on social media. I myself often block various types of gambling advertisements from my social media, because too many appear and tend to be annoying.

From what I found, of course very possible to be found on teenagers' social media accounts. The desire to try, the ease of registering and making deposits, are factors that can increase the number of teenage gamblers.

Then, the study^[1] states that part of it is caused by a lack of attention from parents to take preventive measures so their children do not fall into online gambling.

^{[1] https://mottpoll.org/reports/parent-awareness-online-betting-among-teens}

Because most parents are in serious pursuit of money, they neglect paying attention to their kids and these kids can end up picking up bad habits along the way and the parents not even noticing it until the habit matures into something that becomes a problem for them to stop. Before a parent offers to give a child a cellphone they should take time to tell the child about the dangers and the kind of things that will be exposed to on the Internet because there is a larger influence online these days than even offline. There is a big role for parents to play.

its very possible these kids aren't aware of the possible effects these gambling can do to them so they think its just all about placing a bet and been able to win the bet but over time they get to understand that its more and way beyond just placing games and getting to win them because in the long run you could get addicted and probably end up becoming a problem to yourself and those around you by extension as a result of your addiction because you probably are unable to control the attitude such that it becomes obvious and visible to everyone and probably gets to raise concerns around them so its very possible these kids dot seem to understand this just yet because they think its just all about the fun and them been able to jus getting to win bets.

Gambling education and probably education on addiction been taught or incorporated into high school curriculum will actually have a whole lot and goin a very long way helping these students been able to be able to get the proper knowledge and reason why they shouldn't go into gambling but sadly they still don't get to acknowledge it because its nit bee taught in there schools so they probably get to learn the hard way and get help for those who desire to and actually for those whos parents gets to know and it turns out a problem to them they eventually get to help their kids seek help.

Biggest threat to teens for gambling is via games which have loot box type gambling built into the game surreptitiously.  Its definetly gambling but has no fixed monetary assigned value and you always win at least a low value prize of some kind, in effect people are trying to gamble for the highest amount win like a roulette wheel.

This in game gambling is within some of the largest game titles sold globally and targets teens and pre teens age ranges with gambling for advantage of some kind in the game.   Its very lucrative earns billions and is a massive part of the industry now.

  If you ever wonder why there is so many free games of top quality its because of this kind of micro charges transaction within the games.   Personally I benefited from it because I already am aware of gambling, I can recognize it all but a very young child will easily be taken advantage of so its wrong to that extent.   This is definitely going to be part of the story mentioned by OP.

In highschools, it is common for students of all ages to see mathematics classes, right? One of the branches of math is called statistics, which is supposed to address the mathematical laws which apply to chances and games which have much to do with randomness. I would be in favor of making schools to include some gambling examples during mathematical classes and how randomness is supposed to work, so they can be aware on how the laws of chances work and how they are used in the long term for the profitability of a casino.
They could also include examples on how casinos make money off betting and how odds are supposed to work in the first place.
It would not about encouraging or discouraging gambling, it would be more about education and making sure those teens understand how chance is supposed to work, so they can take their choice when they reach 18 years old or 21 years old.

The problem here is that there are national lottery and gambling platforms, such platforms doesn't request for KYC rather they used account number to determine users and such system give rise to increase in number of teens in gambling, anyone can literally open a gambling account and then used an adult account to fund the gambling platform and bet his games while the casino might be using the account number to think it's an adult that is behind the account.

Strict kyc requirements is what casino need but even the casino doesn't request for KYC from th beginning and it increases under age gamblers and this is done deliberately to make money from people, it's after the person has gamble they later request for KYC and users that don't request for withdrawals on time might have gamble for months before making withdrawals.

I think that's a very good idea cause schools have a big role to play in educating this kids on the disadvantages on gambling as a teenage, they should help them understand the effect it have on them mentality, gambling is +18 rated and not meant for individuals below that age, therefore i think they'll resist gambling if they discover that it's against the law for an ubderage to gamble

 I also think the gambling casinos have their own role to play as well, by implementing a comopulsory KYC policy upom registration it would help reveal defaulters and reduce the use of online casinos by teenagers to gamble. Adults could handle the traumas that comes with losing but i don't think most teenagers would be able to handle loosing their upkeep money. At that age they should be more focused on getting quality education or learning a good skill.

It should be taught in school and at home every adult has a responsibility for the young ones who will play a major role in the future of the home and of the country, some countries are not very restrictive on countries like in the case of the US so the parents and the school should take up the crusade to educate the young ones on the harmful effects of gambling in an early age.

I'm glad that here in our country, we have laws that protect our young ones from gambling addiction. Even though gambling is legal in our country, both the establishment and the home are doing their part to educate the young ones.

A birth certificate cannot be used as a requirement for KYC, because it will be difficult to verify the document and its easier to be faked than an ID card or passport.
Also It will be impossible for casinos or 3rd party KYC services to have access to birth certificate data in every country in this world.
Apart from ID cards and passports, video verification, paycheck slips and utility bills are more reliable than a birth certificate.

Smart kids won't play this because they know it might not end well. But all sorts of school hooligans and those who like to do something bad can get involved in gambling. Teenagers are at risk. I remember that at school in adolescence, the environment and the companies in which we are among classmates are very strongly influenced. If the majority gambles and shows off to others, then everyone else will most likely start playing so as not to look behind the supposedly cool guys. Although there are already too many advertisements on the Internet that can pierce the coldest hearts of those teenagers who did not intend to play. Moreover, sometimes I come across very aggressive and intrusive advertising that can affect the unprepared psyche of teenagers. Therefore, it would be worth thinking about protecting this in some way.

The syllabus may include some example of randomness in gambling but this does not mean that this encourage the students to experience the gambling in order to know the laws of statistics  :D
I think there are many other examples that can be co-related with statistics and we do not need to talk specifically about gambling. I think the gambling should be discouraged among the students as if students are involved in gambling, they will have a very bad impact on their studies.

Life is so long and there is ample time for gambling. I think the society, teachers and parents should make sure that students keep away from gambling and even if gambling is discussed in some subjects, there should be clear warning for the students, not to gamble and if found them doing gambling, should be treated strictly.

Honestly speaking we have to consider the teens off the game for gambling, they should be more focused about their education since they aren't working yet to be earning and are still dependent, as parents, we also have to be mindful of the level of exposures given to our children at some certain stage, its not a bad thing if we think about changing our environment before of such influence on them, we must watch over them and guide them in other for them not to be exposed to things that may cause havoc on their growth and way of life aside the one we intend for them.

Yes I think it will be highly beneficial to implement gambling education in schools considering the popularity of gambling running between adults as much as it runs between teenagers too.

It is very important to spread awareness between teenagers of the harms and risks that gambling leads to, such as financial problems. If teenagers are aware of how bad these problems can be it might help them take better decisions and reconsider their actions.
I think early education can be a preventive measure to help stopping any gambling addiction from developing and help building a responsible behavior and wise decision making to teach kids ways of navigating a world where gambling is becoming increasingly popular.

Honestly it will really reduce the rate at which young people go into gambling.  The reason why young people easily go into gambling because their is no orientation,  nobody to advice how gambling can be dangerous to young people.  Introducing a curriculum will help young people to gamble with the right knowledge. Most young people that gambles believe if they go into gambling they can quickly make money from gambling. It is believe their are large numbers of school children that are found in school environment,  so if every school can have counselors that can counsel young people it will really make a positive effect in their life.

Majority of people who plays gamble are not even educate about gambling, I think people need education it will reduce the rate of addiction in gambling in our environment.

Currently, gambling activities have become commonplace, both young and old are involved in gambling activities. And quite a few of them are trapped in the cycle of irresponsible gambling.

In the current digital era, gambling is increasingly easily accessible to many people, either via cellphones or other similar devices, so it is impossible if the current generation (young people) are not familiar with online gambling and are involved in betting.

Gambling is like mushrooms that are scattered everywhere, as are the promotions they carry out, where every gambling platform continues to compete to attract its visitors to gamble on their gambling platform through the promotions they carry out, be it on social media or others. Meanwhile, today's young people are never separated from cellphones and social media. But regardless of how intensively the promotion is carried out by gambling platform owners, when young people have a strong foundation and a good understanding of the negative impacts of irresponsible gambling activities, then no matter how intensively the promotion is carried out by online gambling platform owners, this it will have absolutely no effect and cause concern about online gambling.

I definitely agree that schools should educate teenagers about the risks of gambling.  Just as they offer warnings about smoking, they oughta do the same when it comes to gambling apps and websites that are so easy to access on phones these days.  A lot of kids view these things as harmless entertainment and figure it's easy money, but gambling can become a serious issue before you even realize it and

Like that guy said, most teens are oblivious to the downsides here.  Schools have a responsibility to reveal the realities about gambling to students before it's too late.  And for real maybe even some adults could use a reminder about this stuff too.  The marketing for these gambling sites can be pretty deceiving with all those ads everywhere.

So why has the school administration not tried to implement such gambling education in their students as an initiative knowing their kids on the campus are already making worse mistakes in life?  

The school should be the first to blame and they really tried to publish the kind of article to tell the world their school hasn't done something.

I believe teens are aware of what they are doing.  Teens have already consciousness about the things they are doing let alone grown-up men.  They are into sports betting not because they are rooting for their favorite team but because they want to win money on top of being a fan.


Instead of gambling prevention, I think it is much better to conduct a responsible gambling awareness campaign.  It is much better to tackle how to gamble responsibly than shutting the gambling or preventing kids from gambling since it is very hard to implement such things due to the technology.  Aside from that often times there are curious teens that intentionally breach the restriction due curiosity.  I believe giving awareness on how to gamble responsibly is way more effective in reducing teens having gambling addiction than preventing them.

So instead of the government working on this, they want teachers to do all the work? It's a joke if you ask me.

Teachers are there to teach. When you're good at math or chemistry it's your job to focus on that part. Teachers are not there to do jobs that parents should be doing. Their job is not to be protectors of the public, it's the job of politicians, the police, the judicial system and so on. Saying that schools should do it is like saying that now they're giving 100% of their time and effort to teaching kids how to read, write and count. Now they should put 80% of their effort into that and 20% into making sure kids don't drink, smoke, gamble and take drugs.

I think that yes, it often happens that an adult does not fully understand what he is doing and how much he has lost control over himself and over the situation. There is also a big trap in this for people who have become addicted. This did not happen instantly, it happens gradually, day after day, month after month. If at first it is unacceptable for a person to bet his entire salary, then after a few months of gambling it is quite normal to gamble with his entire salary. Over time, acute sensations develop into addiction, without which a person cannot live.
The problem for children for the most part is that they can still take full responsibility for their actions. A child cannot yet fully distinguish between the bad sides of this life and the good one, and it is easier to mislead a child, so gambling is especially dangerous for children, so I agree that schools should carry out prevention efforts against gambling addiction

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

Students in highschool should focus on their studies, gamble isn't a thing any student should focus on and needs school aside. From the beginning of gamble, it shows gamble isn't a thing anyone should focus in when he/she have some other important things to do. Gamble is what anyone that's a gambler should do when he's less busy .

Schools are places where we learn lessons for life, so I really don't see any issues in introducing gambling addiction prevention through lectures and conversations. It seems a very solid and constructive matter to be addressed during high school. There are lots of possibilities to talk about this theme, like inviting addicted gamblers to share their personal experiences with the students. Teachers can also bring real cases of gambling addiction and what was its impact over the lives of the individuals involved on the process. All efforts seem valid.

However, I can't see gambling as an equal threat when compared to alcohol and drugs. Gambling isn't a cheap addiction. It demands the individual to have a constant flux of money on his banking account, what isn't the case of teenagers, as far as I know. These young individuals don't have banking accounts, they don't have jobs, so how can they fuel a potential gambling addiction? On the other hand, alcohol and drugs are much more accessible and even free in many cases, as there is always a friend willing to introduce others to these noxious practices.

So what about the delinquency committed by some school children and whether the prevention carried out has been maximal. What kind of curriculum is meant? whether related to religious subjects or related to other subjects specifically for dealing with smoking, drinking and gambling. If you follow the existing curriculum, the school must add the latest subjects for this issue and is that possible?

Of course there are positive and negative values, but if it can reduce the number of juvenile delinquents in terms of smoking, drinking and gambling it will be much better and I am sure parents will definitely support that. The question is whether it is possible to implement it and to what extent it can be implemented.

Do the teens play gambling at schools?  ???
In my country, students even can't use their smartphone at schools. So, how they can gamble?

I'm not sure if the teens gamble at school, they must gamble at home or whenever they go after schools. Their parents are the people who must take the responsibility to give the education of preventing this case. We can't give the responsibility to the schools because it is not a part of the subjects at schools. Moreover, it will be easier to deal with the problem if the parents who prevent the teens. Parents must know well the habits of the teens when they are not in the schools.

Anyway, if it is about online gambling, the problems is on the smartphone. It is the parents who can limit the use of the smartphone. They must monitor the smartphones of the teens. Always check everything the teens do with their smartphone.

Ultimately this comes back to whether casinos are properly enforcing identity checks and determining the age of users. It seems rather straight forward these days to confirm someones identity via an ID and it isn't especially easy to fake KYC documents, or at least it probably is more effort than a teenager is going to take. Believe it or not, casinos don't actually want or need this type of player, as they are already making a lot of money from the regular punters who keep depositing. They are more than happy to avoid these sort of controversies and if anything is suspicious at the ID check stage they are likely to reject.

Yes, I agree with this one point. Most of us don't really realize or even care what they are doing with their gambling. What I mean is not related to victory, or even an adult man really wanting to win. These things are normal, so what most people don't realize is the importance of responsibility, understanding about gambling itself, plus making betting the main motive for fun. but with conditions, responsibility and having limits that we can afford are the main things. thus, a person at least knows what he is doing with gambling.
Well, if we talk about the sensation of enjoying gambling, isn't that part of what we want? and therefore too, we bet. Unfortunately, if it is not balanced with understanding, knowledge, responsibility, and the way we express gambling for us, someone can become lulled without them realizing what they are actually doing. to quote point, so what do we actually do ? Isn't that why we bet, apart from supporting our favorite team, getting money for winning is a bonus. if there is nothing to motivate on this basis, one is unlikely to bet. they will just watch a fight and enjoy it without involving betting.

Lastly, the opposite question is whether it is effective to implement gambling prevention education in schools. I don't think so, that's why until now this idea has not been included in studies in every school throughout the world. On the contrary, the role of the family and sharing what is appropriate for children to know and what they are not yet allowed to do, is the most important part that parents apply to their children.

Implementing the gambling prevention in the school? Is it to educate the young ones not to gambling or bringing to there awareness about the percussions of addictive gambling so that they can take note with preventive measures ad also having the educational curriculum about the gambling policies that teenages are prohibited from gambling.
This would really help to fight against irresponsible and addictive gambling lifestyles.

Of course because only learning is what is the task for all children when they are at that age or when they are still in school, there is nothing better than focusing on the various studies that are being studied, although on the other hand maybe they only make gambling as an activity for fun but still it is not the right age for someone to get involved in gambling. One of the reasons is obviously because when someone is still underage then surely they will not really be able to think with common sense and make careful considerations to produce truly rational decisions, meaning that most likely they will only lose more money and develop themselves to enter the addiction phase faster, and one thing that we always worry about is that gambling can threaten their future because it can somehow change their personality to be very bad.

I don't think teaching them about the risks of gambling would drop the participation of kids significantly but saving 1 from possible addiction is an achievement. This is still much better and should have been the focus of schools a long time ago instead of forcing kids with gender or pronoun sh*t and sexual orientations.

You are absolutely correct and I support you with it, I think it will really be helpful if it's done that way because children of nowadays have really grown to something else, they want to see or discover things by themselves, even if you are monitoring them, they will still do what is in their mind till they experience what you were telling them before they will listen by then it's late but with birth certificate as part of KYC or registration will really helpful to us and to our teens too.

It isnt really that bad on having that shit and sexual orientiations on which we know that this is still that relevant or something that would be important but its true that aside from making that kind of focus too much then it would be best that there should really be that a balance in between and should be considering out on having that gambling or whatsoever things that not would really be just that right for those teens or youngster would really be able to deal with specially now that almost everything in internet is really that exposed. Whether we do tend to do our very best on stopping but there's no way that we could be able to do so.

Technological advancement did really give out that huge changes into our lives when it comes to comfort and accessibility but due to those things too on which information and other things could really
be that exposed into others on which this could really cause on being that influential and could give out that devastated effect towards into those young people. Also, parenting
is something that will be also relevant with this kind of potential problem and not really just that only be blamed out on the schools or other things.

Preventive education may be implemented in schools, but actual prevention must be considered by each parent.
Schools are not responsible for the gambling behavior of their students, but when they become concerned about preventive measures, then we should already know that there is a problem there.

So far, there are many students who are addicted to gambling, but if they have been gambling in the school environment then it is necessary to take preventive measures so that they do not gamble in the wrong environment. School is a place for learning, not gambling, so they should be able to prevent that because I think it can be annoying.

While we are having many positive aspects of this technology, but this is one of the worst which is not controllable for the many countries and communities with things are going dangerously for the last few years specially after the Covid-19 era its almost having huge increase in teenager gamblers which are addicted and ruining their lives which are surely problems for the parents and communities as well even few countries are working on this with their own way but still recently things are giving big negative states about this all.
With the policies we can do few things but still things are not going as we needed because mostly kids using data about their families which are allowing them for having accounts but if we have things like online live verification then maybe things came under well control.

This is bound to happen and there is really little anyone can do about it. Financial consciousness is spreading deep, we are no longer in the era where people get to certain age before they are expected to have attained certain levels of financial capacity. Due to innovations in technology, people are more exposed to wealth at very young age. Content creation is one avenue this is being done. I have know so many kids who are millionaires through comedy and various forms of content. The point I am making is that there is so much emphasis laid on money in our generation, this is the reasons kids are naturally drawn to where the can make money or have the hope of making money. Gambling is one such play so it is natural to see more young people going into gambling.

exactly, apart from schools, parents should also be able to educate their children about gambling awareness, I mean, a child's development starts at home.

yeah, that is the whole point of it, to prevent future generations from falling into addiction by educating them about gambling and all the risks and issues that come with it. and yeah, if you asked me, they should have implemented gambling awareness education in schools a long time ago.

That's right, basically the school is just doing its job to teach a child some general lessons for a child of that age, but it's a fact that at the end of the day all the prevention stuff comes back to the parents, or I mean the school is just doing its job and there's usually no curriculum at all that's geared towards gambling prevention, which is good but I don't think people who aren't related to each other really care that much.

At the end of the day it is the family or the parents who can really do it because if we are talking about gambling prevention measures then someone has to have full access to be able to apply it to others and one of the more likely ones is the parents. It is true that I also recognize that there are now quite a lot of school children involved in gambling, one of the causes may be the wrong environmental factors, and if they are gambling in the school environment then yes I think the school should also be involved to solve this problem.

Ah, honestly, I found a lot of news like this, both globally and in my country. The sad thing is, there are many teenagers who do online gambling, without the consent of their parents and in fact it happens every day, and some of them even shock everyone around them because what they do really has an impact on their family. It's not easy to do online gambling, especially for teenagers.

Where do they get money from apart from their parents? and how they can get money easily from their parents to do online gambling, there are definitely various ways and there are also bad ways that they might do. Whatever it is, this habit is definitely a bad habit. because after all teens are still not ready financially, morally, emotionally, and also knowledgeable in gambling.

If it's that urgent, why not? Even though it may not have that significant a chance and may depend on how it is presented, it is true that they often listen more to what teachers say than parents. Education about gambling, its dangers, risks, and also some other activities will be very wrong or actually very dangerous for them when they are not that strong mentally and emotionally managed. because managing gambling is not easy.

At last, they notice it somehow because it is already an alarming situation that could ruin their life once they fall into early addiction. I wish this also happen in our place.

It is already time for the school to act before this situation worsens. Proper education is needed as they are old enough to understand why they should not gamble while studying. Guidance from the school and as well as from their parents will be effective in battling this issue. Let them help to understand that there is a right time for gambling, not now while they are still in school. Even if it was just a friendly game, it still influenced their mind and it will carry one if not stopped.

Lke the guy said, they are already being educated about other kinds of addictions, but they are all about consuming something physical (eating, drinking, injecting or inhaling), so it might come as surprise to someone who hasn't been taught that you can get mentally addicted to something like gambling as well, and how that can cause real physical symptoms. Not to mention the fact that when it doesn't come as surprise, they would be mentally more equipped to combat the symptoms. And not wrecking their finances just because they don't know what's happening.

They could actually teach about addiction in general, not just gambling, drugs or basic stuff, but mechanism of how addiction works, and why people get addicted in the fist place and how that can happen to anyone, and how that doesn't depend on your social class or education or how smart you are.

I definitely see how it would be helpful to understand how broad the whole subject is and how it doesn't just concern junkies, and maybe could give tools to empathy and not judge addicts so easily.

Most schools don't mention about gambling and I think, it is really high time to include the discussion about this addictive activity. At least be open to these students as they may have queries towards this industry. If the teachers are open to this discussion, maybe, some kids or students will disclose their troubles towards this activity, if there's any. Most students are hiding their gambling activities as they know the negative reputation of this in the community.

Younger generation who are into gambling usually can't cope the roller-coaster ride of emotions involved in this activity. Hence, you will hear some bad news of some youngsters ending their life owed to gambling debts. Even adults have hard time dealing with gambling losses especially if they lack funds supporting this vice.

If this subject or course should be included in the educational curriculum then it should be in the subject or course of Civic Education which is popularly known as citizenship Education in which where all the deviant behaviors you mentioned are taught in all level of education. And I noticed that there are two things that making the increase of teens in participating in gambling and the first one is android devices or phones the the second one is the internet. When these two things have not been invented or when it was only internet and no android devices teens were not involved in gambling but the invention of android devices make teen to play gamble online more than ever.

And most of those deviant behaviors have been taught in schools so it will be very easy to add this as one of the sub-topics of the educational scheme of work and add it to the lesson note. This is a good idea.

Prevalence of online gambling among the youth in our country is considered as an important and national issue especially among school and college students online gambling trend has become a cause of great concern in Guardian circles. The horrendous gambling addiction among students who are supposed to be busy with their studies will greatly affect the current education system.
Moreover, the education system should include some education about the dangers of gambling. Moreover, I will blame the current legal system of my country for this social and state degradation because currently no laws are being made in our country regarding this gambling especially among school and college students because of which they are paying close attention to online gambling. I would hold the legal system and police system in my country largely responsible for this.

Yes!!!

Gambling has evolved a lot thanks to technological advances, something I don't even need to talk about, but the point is that young people are much more connected to technology than adults. So, any new technology is quickly disseminated among young people and arouses immediate interest as it becomes popular among groups of friends.
Because of this, many users of these applications and online gaming platforms end up experiencing extremely high exposure and end up taking risks that they were previously unaware of, as they initially treat gambling as something fun and do not see that it ends up becoming an addiction.

Another important aspect that I have noticed is that many young people who are interested in sports, especially football, end up using betting games as an extension of the sporting experience... this alliance between the games and the sport they like makes the competition more exciting to the point that some people find it extremely difficult to stop betting because the experience no longer has the same fun.

Finally, I believe that a young person's head is still a "sponge" to absorb a lot of new things, it is a stage of life in which everything that is pleasurable is their main priority.... this is a bad time in life for become addicted to gambling.

In my opinion, schools should talk about gambling, this would be the ideal place to educate children from an early age to understand the differences between gambling and investments, to know more about addiction and its consequences. If they can create an account at a casino when they are minors, they would also grow up knowing that when they are of legal age they cannot play with the aim of making a profit because gambling games were not designed for people to make a profit. Most of the time, families that have money tend not to control the children and give computers and phones to the children to have fun.

and with that, children find gambling sites and start playing, they know that their parents don't have time at home, that's why they take the opportunity to play and even manage to steal their father's ID to do kyc at the casino and with that play without problems. As parents don't have time, it's better for schools to do the parents' job, which will be to educate children correctly, which is why I agree that when making choices, you should talk about gambling

Never mind teenagers who are still underage, even those who are old enough and perhaps already have families often lose control when gambling. Especially those who are still teenagers, whose behavior and thinking are still unstable, who are not yet able to determine and take responsibility for the decisions they make, who are not yet able to truly differentiate between what is good for them and what is not. With all their shortcomings, lack of experience, knowledge and understanding, they are very vulnerable to becoming addicted to gambling and being trapped in a cycle of irresponsible gambling.

Gambling can destroy their lives and future, because the negative impact and domino effect of irresponsible gambling activities is worse than we think.

And the lack of attention and supervision from parents is one of the main factors in the number of teenagers involved in the cycle of irresponsible gambling. And many of them (parents) prioritize their work more than their children. They have neglected this, and underestimated the importance of family education for a child. So I agree with what the OP said, that education related to gambling prevention must be pushed into the educational realm, especially in public schools. Because currently school is the only place they study.

I don't know whether it makes a lot of sense to talk about gambling. It could be more of a general issue called addictions. Nobody would stop someone from trying to play cards for money or something. Or play a round of roulette. It's something people will try and as soon as there are ways to easily access something at a young age, it'S taking place no matter what.

Take porn as another example. Whether there are courses in school about the dangers of porn addiction or not, it won't stop any of the kids interested in it to access it via their mobile phones. The problem is that not even a ban would solve the problem.

I do think though that public advertisements on TV and Youtube are not the best way to go about it. These advertisements are often said up in a way that's telling the people how cool and promising gambling is. That might be problematic, but if someone really wants to gamble, then better make sure that kid knows when to stop with anything (alcohol, drugs, gambling, porn, etc.) instead of focusing on one specific thing. It can be part of a cause generally teaching about dangers and threats in life and how quickly risks can be underestimated or go unnoticed entirely up until a point when it is hard to get away with low to no harm done.

I do not think think that grown men do not understand the nature of what they are doing.

I would understand if teens engage in an activity involving money and they do not realize that they are actually gambling. When I was a kid, I used to buy lotto skins from a certain online fps game not knowing that I was already engaging into a gambling-related nature of transaction.

Grown men, on the other hand, know already the basic understanding of their actions. They are also aware that what they are engaging into is gambling overall. If they are justifying that they do not understand what they are doing, then they are either that ignorant or just plain in-denial.


Of course- gambling prevention programs should be implemented into programs that schools may offer.

For example, schools and universities may implement into their schedule a dedicated 1-2 days of gambling awareness and its dangers. If the young could understand and grasp the potential dangers of gambling addiction, then this can at least reduce the amount of teens being addicted to such act.

Slots, this is the only game that is most associated with the passion of teenagers or school children who are trying to get some money easily, they have been indoctrinated by external influences or the views of gambling streamers on social media.
A child or teenager still has an unstable attitude and they are easily influenced by anything bad that can make them feel pleasure and ease, but they cannot think long term.
Problems like this are actually very difficult to eliminate or resolve because they play online and nothing can prevent it except their own awareness to stop and abandon all gambling activities.

I have never really seen solution that is truly proven to be accurate for dealing with all of this, and if there is, it is only small part because the majority can still do it freely without any pressure being applied.

It will be a good idea to implement gambling prevention education in schools because that can helps students to knows what's the risks of playing gambling and how to avoids if someone asks them to join. It needs supports from all parties, including parents because that programs can supervise their children in that schools. Their teachers also helps to supervise the students when they are in schools but parents must still pay attentions to their children in home. The situation now is different so parents and teachers must really careful to guide students and make sure that they will not doing something that can harms their lives. Students interaction with their friends now becomes worried because with many information that they can gets with easy, that can caused them to acts without filtering if that's good or bad for them. That needs supervise from their parents and teachers so everything will be good for their children.

Fine, there are means of identification, but this has never been 100% effective. As I write, underage people are gambling with verified means online and offline, and they either fake it, buy a verified accounts/IDs or look for older persons to verify the account for them. So this can never be 100% reliable.

But let say you should speak for yourself and not others on others and not speaking for companies, let them talk for themselves. Fine, some casinos will truly mean well for the world, but I can assure you that many, if not almost all of them do not see it that way, they are all for the money regardless of who brings the money. The age issue has been the subject of discussion for so long, it is much better in many sane countries where their system is working and people are not so desperate for money. But for the developing/poor/third world countries where anything goes, nothing like that can't be spoken of them.

By the way, that is for the physical betting. But for online gambling, if not for the regulations, do you think that casinos will not do worse? If some of them could be caught for money laundry and cheating of customers, how much more is collecting money from underage people who they did not force to do so but are willingly interested in gambling. It is the law that is restricting them and curbing a long of menaces and excesses of companies not that they will out of their good nature do the needful, except a few of them that are truly humanly in nature.

This is the kind of concern that many parents and other concerned people are seeing nowadays. So, if they're trying to do some solution about it, I am for it.

There's no need to be against to those people that are looking to see the new generation not to get addicted in gambling. Even us, we're also into gambling and we don't want teens to get addicted on it.

If that's the way they are seeing it, it's not the best solution but it's a way to reduce the number of teens getting addicted. IMO, the best is still to educate the parents so that they'd pass it on to their children to not to engage in gambling.

Of course, a lot depends on the parents, including upbringing and attitude towards gambling. If teenagers constantly see their father playing, then they will probably want to try it too. And even if he forbids them, they will find time and place for what he did not disturb them and will completely plunge into the world of excitement. Another difficulty is that it can be difficult for a teenager to explain and understand how dependent one can be; he can only do so through his own sad experience. Therefore, I sometimes wonder whether he will even be able to understand where this dependence begins, because even an adult cannot determine this very often.

Though their are lots of things that could hinder a child from being responsible which includes peer pressure, bad society, lack of quality upbringing and many others but it all falls back to the parents of that child, when a child is spoilt the society would say the parents didn't raise them properly and when it's the other way round all praises goes to the parent, therefore parents have a big role to play in raising their children.

 Children learn very fast especially at teenage age and a that age they'll want to explore and try out things whether good or bad, it's normal it human nature to tend to know especially at that age, that's why it's the duty of parents to provide proper guidance for their children, parents ought to drag them closer not only gibe them quality education in schools but also educate them at home concerning certain things and their consequences.

Parents play the major role, but it is not only parents who are involved in bringing up a child. If you are close to a teen, they may learn some habits from you that their parents do not have, so you who is also not a parent, need to be careful so not to teach these children these habits unknowingly. If you gamble in front of teens, even though you are not their parents, you are indirectly teaching them to do it, and if they look up to you as a father-like figure, someone they can learn from, they will be influenced to try it.

That's true, there will be some moments that they're going to gamble even if they will be prohibit that's why the patronage should start at home.

The time will come for these teenagers that they will realize that life isn't just all about them gambling all day long or getting some money from their parent's pockets.

While those that have side hustles, they can do whatever they want with their money. Yes, there are teenagers nowadays with side hustles but still that doesn't give them a pass to gamble.

Yes, it is possible, but I think it depends on the environment they are in, because usually it is very easy for someone to fall into negative things if they are in the wrong environment.

But yes, if they are in the wrong environment then they will most likely fall into various negative things, whether it's gambling, alcohol or other negative things that can have a bad impact on their lives, on the other hand, yes I understand what you said that teenagers should understand that life is not about gambling alone, but usually someone who is still in their teens just wants something that makes them curious and maybe one of them is gambling.

On the other hand I think it doesn't matter even if for example they have their own income or still depend on both parents in terms of finances but still if if they use the money for negative things then it is prohibited or not recommended, none other than because after all there are bad effects that will most likely continue to lurk them, and overall I think this is the job of parents who must be able to supervise and direct their children to something right.

The question was if I agree with this and the answer is: it depends but probably no.
I feel like children are already overwhelmed with the amount of useless stuff the government is trying to teach them, like all the sexual education, gender pronouns, ecology and now they want to teach them about gambling? Isn't that interfering with the basics that parents should be teaching their children? There's knowledge children should acquire at home, for instance if the family is religious it should educate children in that matter, but now schools are trying to teach religion. This is a waste of time and money if you ask me.

Very much agree with your opinion bud, this is also inline with what I said before in my previous comment, children don't need to be taught anything concerning gambling because I personally think it will be counter productive, in the sense that the knowledge of this things can turn around to act as a gambling promotion to the kids, specially the ones that weren't into gambling before.

A much better solution like I've also said before is for the government to start  working closely with both online and offline casinos to bring strict regulation on the issue of underaged/children and teenage gambling, when government sets out in full force to prosecute any child and his or her parents who is caught gambling while the child is not up to the age that is set as the minimum one must attain before he or she starts engaging in gambling, then children will automatically refrain from gambling, also, parents will become up and doing in making sure they give their wards the necessary training on things to avoid doing at their tender age.

Underage gambling is about people, and some of them are bad. Technology is lax. The casinos are more concerned with profit than ethics. The exploit every gap they can find, regardless of who suffers. Shameful. This isnt just about casinos. Its much worse. How various societies manage these issues must be discussed. People with it good have stricter laws and they enforce them. However, in impoverished areas, those rules are relaxed or not implemented. Problems go beyond gambling. The issue is social. We must safeguard the weak. Indeed, without strict legislation and enforcement, this will worsen. These criminals must be punished. Only this will win.

It's just the way a certain side talks about the negativity of this field. I feel their argument is not wrong but is it necessary to use the word "prevent"?

While there are many interesting things about exploiting probability in mathematics or logic, what is important is our attitude towards this field. I often talk about knives and how to use them, like someone uses it in the kitchen to cook, but someone will use it to kill someone, and the knife is not a crime, it's just a means to kill people, everyone fulfills the purpose.

Blaming the means is an excuse for irresponsible behavior. I think raising awareness for all audiences is the main issue, not blaming good/bad means.

Valid concern, with the ease of accessibility in technology, it's bound to happen that gambling would be easily accessed if they just type in the right words, also this shouldn't be a surprise to any of us because we've all grown up with unrestricted access of the Internet too, I mean most of us had those privileges so it's never really something that we should be surprised right, what we should be doing is that we should do all the things that we've learned when it was us and teach the children that this shouldn't be how they spend their money into or you can just straight up go dictator against them because young children are easy to mold and that's going to be really difficult to do some changes down the line once they become an adult, we should be doing what we can to prevent children from getting addicted to gambling by trying our best to stop them from playing, that's the only way that you can deal with this issue in my opinion.

Teenagers nowadays have smartphones that they can use to gamble and with the rampant advertising of online casinos coming from different influencers, it's not a surprise that there's a surge in teens getting addicted into online gambling.

A smartphone, and an internet. That is what you need if you want to gamble. Of course, I excluded money because that's a must when you're gambling. Add also the fact that these teenagers might be following some influencers that are promoting gambling websites, and you all have a perfect recipe for an increase in online addiction on teenagers. I would be happy if gambling prevention will be added in school especially now that there are many gamblers who are experiencing negative things about gambling. Some of them might be teens that lost huge amounts of money, and now regretting their decisions.

Overall, I would like to see schools around the world implement this one. Not this year maybe, but in 2-3 years depending on the effect of gambling towards teens and not just teens but other people as well.

If child porn can make someone to being arrested, why did casino that allow teens to gamble didn't get arrested too? ???

It seems that many people are allowing teens to gamble and take it as a normal thing, as long as the casino pay tax to the government, they didn't care with legality when it comes to money.


Not all parents will have a time to teach their kids everyday, both of the parents need to work all the day and taking care the house, so they lack of time, sadly they didn't have enough money to pay babysitter.

Even though gambling education has been around for a long time, unfortunately it has not reduced the percentage of gambling among teenagers and shows that it is not very effective in preventing the rise of gambling among teenagers. It is not easy for us to give advice to the younger generation, especially in this day and age where almost everything is online, so it will be difficult to prevent children from gambling because every time they hold a smartphone, advertisements for gambling sites will appear on their smartphone screen, whether intentionally or not, and this is a strong influence for them to start with gamble.

I agree with some examples he cited. There are just things that don't need to be taught in schools. These are what they are up to while not even teaching how money works, handling money, and economics which is even more important for the kids to learn at an early stage. But they instead gender pronouns that make them confuse instead.

When the school started sex education, it didn't help diminish the number of teens getting pregnant in contrast bloated to numbers. Its possible this could also happen in gambling education.

Overall I believe the first thing is that schools don't really care about something that is not their job, or I mean they will only teach something that is common in schools that can improve a child's skills and knowledge (regardless of whether the child can understand it or not), and also as you said that a child is already overwhelmed with learning, most of them always feel lazy when it comes to everything that has to be learned.

On the other hand, gambling is not something that everyone should know about, although the goal is good, namely to prevent a child from getting involved in gambling by telling them about all the consequences that can be caused, but it is a fact that a child who is still underage is still unstable and still has a lot of curiosity. This means that isn't it better not to tell them about gambling at all? Obviously, because a child who is still underage will not think too much about the impact, simply put if they are curious then they will do it, and this is why for gambling problems it is better to return to the parents, or it means that it is better for parents to overcome and prepare about all forms of prevention.

To reduce the number of teen that plays gamble online, the gambling site should make sure that, for anybody to be able book a game on their site, they most register and part of the registration should be that, you most show an ID that will be verified by the gambling company, to show that your an adult registering on the site, before they can allow you book any game.

I think the school has little role to play, it has more to do with parenting, parents should be checking the gadgets of their teens to know the kind of site they browse at least on a regular basis, the policing of the children activities has lots to do with the parents, the teachers spend few hours with them, however it's not within their job predictions.

Smartest way to cut actual gambling while young but also while an adult is education primarily maths.   If you know the maths to compare and contrast every gambling game, every bet for its value and validity then you are going to be far safer then relying on the law and regulations to put everything behind safety tape for you.

Telling people what they can and cant do is not the most effective method, it makes people believe the game is more attractive and forbidden, we cant even inform people of cancer and smoking and its been decades of solid research.   Make everything as transparent as possible and you have an obvious cause and effect, endless laws can cover things up & it can be quite ironic.

Deeply concur to this parents role in the life of their children as regards to gambling can't not be under estimated, allot of wrong and addicted of gambling by most children is due to negligence by parents, improper parenting and lack of good communication.
Communication has a greater role between parents and children a good communication between parents and children can reshape any environmental negative influence that would have occur to the child because the early information through the parents communication will savage it as the information from the parents we became counter attack where such influence will not penetrate or have dominion on that child.

Many wrong today in the society is as a breached of the parents children communication as all this is given to teacher, minder etc why the parent impact is not felt by the child, inorder to cut off child engagement or been addicted to gambling as tender age parents need good communication to the ur children as that can make them know the environmental influences they don't need to que in.

I think it will be very cool to implement this kind of education in schools. Perhaps there is a saying that "children are the leaders of tomorrow." So, whatever is necessary to protect and project the future of our kids is very welcome. It will be very bad to overlook the rate at which teens are involved in gambling, which could turn out to affect the future of our kids if they become addicted gamblers in the future. 

Also, I think parents have a large role to play too; they have to properly look after their kids to make sure they are not involving themselves in gambling when they are not even at the age of gambling. 

If "gambling prevention education in schools" can be implemented, that will also go a long way toward helping. 

It's true. People have to be taught the logics and rationality behind gambling game, instead of just learning it should be avoided at all costs. If they don't understand why gambling should be avoided or taken in small dosages, why would they do this in first place?

It makes me remember my childhood, when adults told me to avoid bees, because they were dangerous. Other children screamed and ran from them, but I simply couldn't understand why they acted like that, since bees looked inoffensive to me. Due to that belief from my part, I decided to kill one with my bare hands someday, just like we use to do with flies.

Then for my surprise, I felt a harsh and continuous pain on my hand and it instantly swelled, due to the sting. If people had explained me why bees were dangerous instead of only saying they were dangerous, I wouldn't have acted like that.

The same goes with gambling. If people don't know why it's dangerous, of course they will go for it without any precautions, at least not until they feel a harsh pain on their pockets...

The educations available still didn't make positive changes in reducing the rate of users or consumers. An activity like gambling  is widely accepted in the society that the educations available wouldn't get half the publicity of gambling. Most times it increases the publicity and the rate people want to try it. Provided they've seen gamblers that have made money in the game. Their trust would be on what they see, not what they hear in classrooms.

You'd notice a high rate of people who pay deaf ears to risk, all for the sake of money. Assuming these people carefully attend classes to genuinely change or stop a gambling habit, a huge impact would have been made in the lives of young people. Learning requires interest. If the students are not deeply interested in a specific class they would learn or practice what is been thought.

If this is the case, then it would be necessary that gambling education introduced into the school curriculum. I was initially against move of supporting  gambling education at the secondary school but however, it is pertinent that steps be taken to curtail such otherwise the society will be greeted with underage gamblers.

I also had a second thought over it since government age limit for gambling is 18 and we all know that both  schools are populated with children below that age do you think the government would give consent to allowing gambling education be taught in the elementary schools?

Many people want to try it, of course this will be difficult in educating the public about the bad impacts caused by gambling and with all the ease it can be accessed by anyone, of course this will attract them to try it and moreover, they have seen other people win their bets and things like that. This will of course attract their attention to try it.
To be able to stop the habit of gambling is not an easy thing, even though we have explained at length the impacts that gambling will have, if we teach students about the impacts that will be felt as a result of gambling, it is not certain that they will comply if they have already gambled.

I will be clear and frank here.I was just to dinner with my wife in a restaurant near the park where we take our daughter to play and that restaurant is frequented heavily by teens being a new modern one with tons of options in fast food beside fancy dinners.I saw that the kids now 14-15 years old were completely different and I would call them crazy compared to when I was 15 near 30 years ago,we were happy to watch some good movies like Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck and play some playstation while the kids of today they were all smoking cigarettes and they got to the bathroom God knows what else they were smoking.It is only natural that the gambling surges in such type of society with these kind of persons,I was really disappointed tonight and I am worried about my daughter already,I would do the max to not let her become one of them.So the gambling surging is only normal for me and it should be news that is surging,news is that how to fight it in such persons.

Several groups will be totally against this one and it will not be easy to implement it.
Though I support this initiative because many are really exposed in gambling at a very young age and its alarming. In my country alone, many are being encourage to gamble by the social media influencers as they have this promotion at the end of their video. If the government really want to stop this, then they should start to strictly implement the policy.

Yes and I think one of the reasons is that the object of victory in gambling is money which everyone needs money and most gamblers come because they see that other people managed to win big without them knowing what that person has gone through to be able to win, meaning that we cannot close our eyes that money is everything in life and that may be one of the reasons why people still come to gamble even though they have heard education about the dangers of gambling if it is used as a place to earn income. In addition, as you said, most people now prefer to spend most of their time playing on the internet while most online casinos make the internet their biggest promotion site so it's only natural that in the end many teenagers fall into it intentionally or not.

It's not really about the  how ease it is to download the gambling apps even if they put some hurdles any interested person in gamble will find his/her way at all cost. One thing that I see that is attracting more and more teens to gambling in our society today is due to their high consciousness and awareness about money and this makes them keen to easily get interested to engage into anything that promises to offer money, and that's what gambling does, it makes you believe you could seamlessly make some cash from it with just sheer predictions and catching fun.

Maybe when parents and every other person start shaping a different mentality into  their child and wards about how they perceive money they will be guided against getting involved in just anything just to make money.

We have been so crafted to believe that money is just everything nowadays, so how do we not expect the teens not to get involved in gambling growing up with these ideas. To gamble you don't need any qualifications, skills, experience neither will you go through any interview, and this makes it a great option for nay teen looking for money to take his or her chances in order to get that bicycle or video game he or she needs.
 
Implementing a gambling prevention education won't make that sort of positive change as many will be thinking it to achieve. The truth is that morals and ethics are quickly depleting among many things we teach our kids these days, and this makes them unable to know the boundary between adult activities from those of kids. They just literally want to try everything they can lay hands on.

Getting these people educated about the risks and losses of gambling could be a good option, but still we can’t expect that everyone will come to avoid gambling now that they know already that gambling is not designed to grow their money but will only make their money grow less until they lose everything they have. People, most particularly teens are most likely hard headed until they prove to theirselves that gambling will not bring any good in the end.

However, I guess the best option so that teens will not be tempted to gamble is to banned online gambling at all. I believe a lot would not agree to this but I can see this is possible especially if the government insist of doing it for the sake of the minors not falling into gambling addiction.

Over the years, the focus has been on preventing young people from getting involved in gambling activities but the whole approach used so far is not yielding any result, rather we keep getting cases of young people getting stuck with gambling problems. Whether you prevent them from gambling now, they will still learn it later, but our only concern is them learning it the wrong way.

These teens should be taught a healthy gambling lifestyle instead, this way we will be sure these kids are safe even if they gamble. I have come to realize that most young people who get into trouble do things out of curiosity in secret and without proper guidance because adults  who are supposed to guide them, prevented them from doing so. If a teen wants to gamble badly, let them gamble but teach them how to gamble responsibly.

What you say is very true, but you have to start from something, from a fundamental principle, a teenager at this stage of life, some already have a clear idea of what they are going to be, and they have the intention of doing things, like They plan, it is their responsibility, they are preparing themselves so that they can be good men and women and what they can contribute to the world, however if they let themselves be led down wrong paths, that is something that they decide, the casino game, the games casino, Sports bets are options that they have to win money, but they also know that they can lose, That is why games of chance are not suitable for minors, and that is why they will never be accepted in casinos, because some teenagers do not even know what what do they want

I totally agree with what you said. I want to share something with you. I think every country should include a book called Gambling in their textbooks. There will be only the harmful effects of the world's dreaded virus called Gambling. And detailing the solution of how a student or a person can come back to normal life from an addiction. Thus it is possible to save a young nation from the destructive side of gambling.

Teenagers have a very vulnerable psyche, and if you introduce some strict bans on visiting online casinos, then these bans will lead to the opposite. A teenager, thinking that he is an adult, will do the opposite. Therefore, the pedagogy of such relationships with a teenager should be associated with parents and school. I come from a family where non-gambling interests are very well represented, and examples of what gambling can lead to at a young age. A teenager copies everything he sees nearby. If you live a healthy and correct life, having full contact and trust with your child, then in the future he is unlikely to become a victim of addiction to something harmful. As for the Internet, the Internet is a trap for lonely people. The more real friends and live communication you have offline, the less craving you will have for games and everything else on the Internet.

Teens gambling is on the increase because online casinos or betting apps are free for them to reach and when they launches this apps it only ask them if you're up to 18 years or not and certainly they will choose 18 if they are below that age hence serious restrictions on online gambling casinos to prevent teens from gambling.

In my school days just a few years back or 2 years precisely when I was in the secondary educations I have witnessed my friends fight over Messi and Ronaldo's case and that gave me concerns but since I wasn't into football I usually snobs this issues but where I get worried is when they get reported to the head teachers who are males especially, this teachers instead of punishing the students they go ahead to analyse the difference between Messi and Ronaldo for the fighters making the students feel they are okay woth fighting over gambling related stuffs.

And as a result of this some gambled in classes even when lectures are going on but it seems right in their eyes because nobody is interested in cautioning them so if their is an implementation to prevent gambling in the educational system as below then it's very much welcomed.

Yes of course I agree with that, secondary educations are the ground where you build a reasonable citizen or student because at that point they tend to be aware of their actions gradually.

All education that can reduce the negative impacts on children both now and as adults should be given from an early age, so that they can have a good foundation about gambling so that even though later they will gamble, they will become responsible gamblers because they understand the bad risks that will be obtained if they gamble without responsibility, but parents at home should teach about this too, not just rely on the school, so education about gambling is currently as important as education about sex.

If the parents are materialistic and always praise money, they can say that. The real truth is still or is that not all revolve around money. Investing seems not fit yet for a kid but savings may be, because it is only easy to do.

I can only believe when they say that ' they don't know what they are doing 'if we are talking about the kids but if they are already a teen, then that is not believable anymore because they are grown-ups already and they already have a hair in their pubic areas Xd. Usually the ones who have this alibi are the people who are already addicted but its funny if they use it to try and escape their problems or consequences because it won't work as they wish.

It's an unending problem to be honest. As long as these teens are getting their interest with gambling activities then they will continue engaging into it. What's more alarming is with streamers and influencers who promote this kind of activity. I think there's no need for a proof to the idea that they're a big part of encouragement to gambling concerning teens. Same reason why I support KYC Procedures on trusted platforms to at least lessen, if not totally stop, their access to gambling sites.
We're on this for years already but the situation just keep on getting worse generation after generation. There are lots of warnings and disclaimers about how bad gambling habits could get but these teenagers care nothing less but to be in this industry because they are having high hopes of earning big through their luck.

Exactly, because a person's personality depends on how their environment is as a child, on the other hand I understand that both parents must want the best for their children where of course they direct a child to positive things but it is a fact that sometimes a child grows up with various influences that are sometimes negative if the parents cannot take care and direct them to positive things well. On the other hand, I do not agree if a child is given education about the dangers of gambling since they are still young because what is feared is that there is still a possibility for them to feel curious about how gambling actually is and maybe they try to access gambling unknowingly, which as we know that a child who is still underage has a high curiosity in him.

So in my opinion there is nothing better than not exposing them to gambling, and it is better to keep or monitor them along with avoiding various things that can make them reach gambling, such as excessive use of social media that allows them to see promotions carried out by some of the big casinos that we often see on the internet lately.

Education can helps children to avoids the negative impacts that can happens to them. At least, they will knows what happens to them if they do that so they must not doing that things before something bad happens. Education about gambling in schools is necessary to helps them knows about the danger of playing gambling which is not many children knows. When they knows about the danger, they will not trying to playing gambling because they will see something bad to their lives and that can makes their parents in trouble, not just for that children. But schools must takes their portion to always reminds students not to playing gambling and together with parents, they can guards students to stay away from gambling. Students will understand about the risks so they don't wants to takes the risks because that can makes them addiction to gambling.

Apart from education, there must be humane control so that children do not feel pressured and do not think their parents are putting too much pressure. Today's children are difficult to manage if they don't use more humane methods and parents usually ignore this condition, making children even more stressed and uncomfortable with that kind of upbringing. In the end, they did not listen to the education, but instead became more curious to learn about these activities because they were influenced by curiosity.

Try discussing how psychologists treat cases of people addicted to gambling and drugs. They take a more humanistic emotional approach so that those who are addicted feel touched and will try to encourage themselves to recover from addiction. This is what parents need to do so that children can become more accustomed to this condition.

Yes, the bad influence that they are part of and mostly when these teenagers aren't patronage by their parents. They go in a wrong circle that teaches them like this, how to gamble.

And I think even with the patronage of their parents, if they're hard headed teenagers, they'd still fall into the same activities like in gambling and as you've said, into alcohol and other activities they think are cool to do when they're at that age.

I reckon but there are teenagers that are unstoppable and parents have just given up supervising them.

I'm not totally against the parents on this matter, since I'm not on their skin to know for real how hard it is to deal with their sons. In some cases parents really have to give up on their sons, so maybe life can teach them something. Too much attention and protection can have a harmful effect for some individuals. Instead of seeing that as something good and benefical, they just sabotage themselves, going against their parents, deciding to stay by the side of wrong and dangerous influences from "friends".

And the more parents make effort to help their sons, more distant and rageful these teenagers become. It's a delicate situation to deal with... Maybe these teenagers have to lose in order to learn something and get aware their parents were right all the time, and that they should get distance from such "friends" who don't add anything productive and uplifting to their existence. Probably everyone here have already seen cases like this for real, being gambling practice involved on the situation or another practices such as drugs, alcohol, crimes and so on.

Gambling has reached a stage where it should be taught as formal education and parenting to avoid gambling, then I think the government has to ban gambling, it's like saying cigeratte increases lung infection problem and we advice children to avoid it but because we can't let go of those sweet taxes, we should put 'smokers are reliable to die young', that's bullshit because we all can see how young and adult smoke like their live depend on it because of that same addiction.

It's simple, if the government is trying to protect its people from something and education is needed, at that point they need to simply ban it and make sure all the companies are dissolved. However, I think parental guidance is more important than anything when it comes to restriction.

We have a new generation and breed of children that call themselves "Gen Zs"; The reality we are facing today with our kids is way different from the 1990's ... The Internet has created a huge influence on them so much that they'd know so many things we don't.

Secondly, peer influence creates yet again, another impossible path to leap -- so many kids have been bullied and stalked for not following any trend that comes forth. When this happens, since a kid is susceptible to opposition, they may decide to follow suit. It's definitely not gonna end well for them
So the best solution would be sending out stricter measures on casinos over the regulation of their customers. If they're not up to 18, report them!!
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Anyone would get enticed immediately they learn about making money it.

Usually it is really that being taught in Values education or something in Social studies as far as i remember since this one had been mentioned wayback in college. So far in highschool and elementary this one hadnt been taught. As we do see that technology does really grow even more better and more bigger on which it is really that almost changing on everything specially when it comes to accessibility on which everything could really be that almost be known with a few taps on your own mobile phone or any device as long it does have that internet on which simply means that it would really be that easy to engaged or access things.
This is why on the moment that you would really be tending to dive into something then you could really be that easily do it, this is why even into those people who are still young would be having that probability on having that kind of engagement on which it is one of the cons of it. So parenting would really be something that relevant.

Parents that comes to this point are the ones that have done everything they can to give them reminder of not getting into the depths of gambling.

But even if the love is there, they have to teach them tough love and you're right with that. They need to learn the lesson of life on their own terms.

Whether they like it or not, they're the ones that will choose their path in life and if they can't help themselves with gambling, a little support still from their parents will come but that's about getting out of their addiction.

Well if it puts awareness in why not? Highly doubt it'd be effective though. I mean a lot of the stuff put into schools has doubtful effectiveness in the first place anyway, what more with gambling. In the first place it has to start with the parents teaching them how to value money and common sense behind it. There's absolutely no common in spending money to "support" your team when it's not even given directly to them lol.

Anyhow in the side of the apps/sites themselves, they really have to implement better ways to stop the minors from accessing them or being able to see them in the first place. God don't get me started with content creators as well, they're probably the first ones that most kids find.

If minors indulge in this industry then the government can no longer regulate it. It will go completely against the government. It is necessary to take initiative from now. Taking precautionary measures for minors who conduct gambling. Socially or nationally or through advertising, minors should be discouraged. Minors must be weaned from gambling if the nation is to prosper. Today it stands as a varnished chain. But I think here only the government will fail to bring it under control unless the parents in the family take proper care of their children. A concerted effort by both parents and the government can prevent such disorders.

Since the gambling industry became accessible through online many persons below the age of 18 has jumped into gambling. It is something that is worth given concern because these individuals are not prepared to take responsibility of their action. The painful part is that there is a low probability to stop them since one cannot k now the exact age when they come into the gambling platform. The concerns grow everyday not only in the gambling industry but also in other sectors. For example, the porn site, a lot of teens are accessing it when they're not up to the age to do that.

This is unnecessary. Every once in a while there will be some manufactured panic about kids being addicted to gambling, and when that stops getting clicks they move onto kids getting addicted to porn, or cigarettes, or vaping. These concerns are overblown. On the rare occasion that a teenager gets addicted to the point that it is ruining their life, they should certainly seek help, but it’s not something where we need mandates and regulation to combat.

Gambling laws in the US are already strict enough. It’s been hard enough to get them to a more reasonable and less restrictive level.

We are going to see more propaganda about kids gambling as these mobile apps become more popular, but no matter how well intentioned they think they are being, pushing for stricter KYC and other measures isn’t going to keep teens out of trouble and will only punish honest people who want to have some enjoyment through sports betting.

The presence of technology and digitalization has provided benefits and positive impacts for all individuals, but behind the benefits and positive impacts provided there are negative impacts which are quite dangerous, especially for the younger generation. Because today's life is never separated from social media and mobile phones, it is impossible for the current generation not to know about online gambling, but social media has become a forum for promoting online gambling sites. and we cannot limit online gambling sites from promoting on social media in places where young people gather, because that is beyond our capabilities.

There was news about many people being trapped in a cycle of irresponsible gambling, causing many losses. This raises concerns for those who are still teenagers, because after all the future is in their hands (the younger generation), and if many of the younger generation are destroyed because of gambling, I can't imagine what the situation will be like tomorrow, will it be okay? .

Even if the government wants to stop the trend of online gambling the role of the family is more important for the protection of teenagers. Parents have the most responsibility to stop this gambling addiction in our youth. Where the child is going with whom he is mixing what he is doing on the mobile all the time should be monitored so that he cannot abuse the smartphone. There is no alternative to being conscious and limiting smartphone usage measures should be taken for that. Besides we have to think from the point of view of moral and Islamic values. It is possible to protect the youth from the dangers of gambling through the united awareness of family society and government.

Well, the education alone cannot help the teens and children stay away from gambling or do not gamble at all. Someone needs to monitor them, and constantly educate them and only then they are saved from it. Gambling is so much addictive and children/ teenagers are quickly get in the trap of the addiction.

The gambling casinos especially the ones operating online do not care who is gambling on the other side of the screen. Their focus is to get money from the gamblers no matter what is their age etc. That is one reason why KYC isn't implemented at the time of deposits, so every minor can come and play  :'( And when they will initiate withdrawal, they will be denied the KYC based on age and their funds will be seized too.
How unfair  ???

Minors have a high tendency to indulge in gambling. As the gambling industry grows, in the same way the number of minors gamblers also increasing. Now this situation is almost out of control. Controlling it is also not an easy task. But if the casino sites make it mandatory to verify the KYC of each of their users, then minors can be brought back from this situation. But casino establishments never give importance to such restrictions. There are some institutions they require KYC from their clients but if one wants they can conduct their gambling without KYC. But if all the sites here follow the same rules then the users will be forced to do KYC and it is possible to control minors from such activities.

The root of the problem is not schools. Do children spend all their time at school? No, and do they learn all these things from the school? No, they don't. So, I don't see how gambling prevention education can help lessen teen gambling when they have all the time and space to do their gambling activities after school.

The root of the problem is the upbringing, and also the advent of online gambling, of course. The advertisements shown everywhere do play a role in this but they aren't the basic reason for teens to get into gambling. If their parents and elders try, they can keep them away from such things.

Everything starts from home, if children are taught what they should be taught, they will only follow those things. The guy who wrote that article is young as well, why is he not into gambling but finds it disturbing or to be a problem for teens to gamble? It's all about awareness and it starts from the upbringing.

Some things that were explained to me at home probably saved me from dangerous things, including gambling, which I consider dangerous for teenagers. They do not yet fully perceive how dependent they can be on this and where the boundaries are. In general, when my children become teenagers, I will begin to explain many things to them, but this also needs to be done in a gentle way so as not to get the opposite effect from it.

Yes, this is true, and those who are not parents cannot understand that their bad habits are being copied. Sometimes even the parents themselves cannot understand where teenagers learned some inappropriate things. In addition, now they can learn various things using YouTube or the Internet. To be honest, I can’t even imagine how to control this, but I know that there are all sorts of applications to install and see what sites a teenager visits. Still, it is important to do this, because if this is not controlled, one day we will discover that he stole money from us for the game or something worse.

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.
I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

I disagree with you at some point, growing up as a kid there are time I'll want to go astray and join other kids to misbehave but when I remember the kind of family am from, I'll take corrections immediately what I'm trying to say is that there are some core values you'll inculcate in your children and they'll always take corrections and won't be carried away by peer pressure.

 I still insist that parents have the major role to play in bringing up their kids, kids are like plants if you train them well they'll grow to flourish but when it goes the other way they'll get spoilt, so teaching your kids and letting them know the consequences of doing wrong is very important, if you don't do that other kids would help you spoil them and mislead them to wrong acts.

Hard to insist what we like them to do since there are instances that our child will resist especially if we are so strict regarding on doing those things that we like since there are chance that they won't obey us and will become rebellious. That's why sometimes I let my those young people to experience those things and make them realize that they would be on bad position if they gamble more especially if they experience losses since for sure they would realize that there's nothing to get for expecting a lot on gambling. Its just we just need to guide them all the time and we make sure to be available always when they need us especially on having a discussion on things that they don't understand.

Makin KYC mandatory isn't actually a measure to getting the minors away from the casino because they are definitely still going to lie about their age and for that i don't think they have got another way of verifying how true that is actually but i know for sure that these minors will always increase their age so they can be allowed by the casino to gamble, until there is a measure to verify age then it may become possible to stop minors but until there's a proper means for age verification it will still be very difficult getting to be able to stop the minors totally but then KYC will help to check the identity of most gamblers.

Getting actual control over gamblers from been able to access the casino especially when the are not up to the age of gambling is actually not an easy task except there will be a separate way of proof for age for every gambler that will want to to be registered on the casino that will reduce the rate at which minors will have access to the casino, i know some will still want to forge the documents but it will only be possible with some so this policy will only reduce the rate at which minors try to gamble but its not going to totally stop it actually.

Nothing is wrong with sex education. If a child gets to a certain age of puberty then the parents should take it upon themselves to teach that child what is happening on their body and not to be left alone by themselves or be taught by the "wrong" people. Of course, there is a reason they say it is a wise person that learns from someone's mistake.


Well your analogy about sex education and gambling education is far different to be compared. Sex education is very important because it involves natural growth and compulsory growth and development on the human body of which the young adult need to know all is well but just another stage in life (at least this is an advantage human has above lower animals to vabally teach sex education to the young in the family).

So coming to this part of your gambling analogy, I think it is apt, your idea of not teaching children how to gamble until you notice them on it or they ask to know is quite proper. But it depends on the age that they are before they could start making such enquiry and again they will easily know what gambling is if the father is doing it right in their presence because children learn fast on what they see. Most children these days can operate the android phone even beyond one's expectation, so it is easy access to operate on gambling apps on the android phone if left for the children

This is why parenting is really that very crucial on which on the moment that you have that encountered a thing on which your parents had taught you about to avoid or to keep away from it then you would definitely be mainly thinking that you should avoid but of course it would really be that still depending on what kind or type of personality you do have since not all people would really be that having on the same mindset on which there are one who are really that too hard headed and there are ones who do stick with the rules on which been taught or given or made them realize then they would really be following and there are ones who would really be making out such involvement just because they've been that curious on what it is.We do know that once that curiosity would be kicking in then you would be tending to test it out. Some might be able to stop after that and there are ones who do get addicted in the end.

Gambling industry is really that becoming that big year by year on which it would really be that safe to say that it would really be that including those teens or those young people to get engaged with gambling.
There are really just that there are ones who arent that being that not being caught because gambling nowadays would really be that so easy and not being caught specially here on crypto space.
This would really be something that an individual problem into a certain family because there are indeed that who do experience because one of the family members that having such problem.
So it would really be case to case basis.

I believe we can start first from home to combat teens from gambling. Once we can get it from there, the high rate of gambling among teens will be minimized.

In families, parents play a major in the upbringing of their child's character and intellect before their teacher or the school authorities help out. If parents start to teach their children gambling prevention at an early stage as Oshosondy mentioned. We won't be seeing teens longing to gamble for money whereby they are to focus on their studies more than any other thing they could think of.

I agree with the pattern of educating parents at home so that children have the ability to recognize the irresponsible nature of gambling and they can avoid addiction when they grow up as teenagers. Gambling is difficult to eradicate because now access is so easy to find on social media, but the role of parents in directing children not to get involved in gambling addiction is very important. To make things easier, give your children other workers who are more useful and like them so they don't try to find out about gambling.

Schools cannot control children because they only have time during school hours, whereas parents can carefully control their children and have much more time. Children should be able to focus more on studying and not be involved in gambling when they are still relatively young.

If we wants to do something to those who playing gambling, including teens, we must do carefully because if we use the hard way, they will not accept it easily and will thinks that we interfere their business (they often says like that). We can use different approaches to them such as we trying to gets close to them and find out what they do and trying to gives advices to them. If we can closer to them with good and without trying to tells them with a loudly, we may have chance to knows what their reasons to playing gambling and we can gets close to them. They may accept our advices and will trying to reduce or even stops their gambling activity, especially if we can shows them many examples how gambling can ruins their lives.

Parents play the main role for their children so parents must be their good friends and not just their parents so their children can share many things to their parents. It will makes a closer relationships between parents and children so children will knows where their border and will not trying to breaks it.

Having both gambling education from school and from parents will be better, at least if the students do not really get the lesson at school then they may get it from their parents and vice versa.
In these modern era, we cant say that parents have more time to educate their children because of many things.
When the parents are so busy with their work then they will have less time to talk with their children, on the other side, children are now also having their own activities outside school.
I will be agreeing if there is a special gambling education and/or other education about morality because for me school is not only place to learn about  science, math, language, etc but it should be a place to learn how to be good person as well.

Come to think of this, it is a big problem if young people are not taught about gambling, I so agree with this idea of lecturing teens about gambling in schools but at the same time some teens don't get into gambling because of their environment, no one is doing it and they don't need to, if gambling lectures are brought to school it will be more eye-opening to everyone in these schools.

One the reasons why gamblers get addicted all started with how they start gambling from they one, they have no idea what they are about to do and they get lucky, it then becomes a part of them.

The world is turning into a more tasking place to be, it feels like the dead are the lucky ones, money is now a problem for everyone, including kids in schools, I wonder how many will focus on their educations if a part of them is worried about surviving, and since some gamblers are still getting lucky it makes these teen feel like they are the next on the line to make some good amount of money from gambling.

If you are a parent with teens at home, you should consider talking about gambling to them, you may never know who is into gambling already and hiding it from you all this while, don't wait until they are been thought in school, this is just an advice, it may never be implemented.

@Colby Cotrone, research and say the right things, many of us see teenagers or adults who don't know and realize what they are doing, if asked what you are playing.
They answered, I don't know, seeing people gambling there, I want to do it too.

Concerns about teenagers should be monitored, many teenagers nowadays do things on the basis of following along, without paying attention and understanding the risks they are doing, including installing online gambling sites, With the current era of advanced technology, we are aware that everything is easy to access with Android, without considering all forms of risks that occur, we just hope that in the future, especially teenagers, there will be the basics of a special curriculum in schools about how dangerous gambling is for them.

The rate of online gambling by teens is quite alarming and the government need to do something about it. This might be very difficult to prevent because their are so many online casinos that do not require kyc and teens would see that as an advantage to avoid kyc casinos.

 Many people are finding online gambling platform a suitable place to bet living the physical casinos so people would not know that they are into gambling. We could make money in gambling if we know how to play the right games that are going to be profitable for us. Many teens do not care about if they are winning or not but only care about there curiosity to win huge spending funds that should be wise for something else to gamble.

Making Kyc mandatory might not completely solve the problem, I know making Kyc mandatory by a gambling site might be helpful, but that won’t stop teens from gambling completely. Most of them will end up looking for ways in which they are going to use other people's identities for KYC,  some might even use their parents identification cards to complete KYC on gambling sites just to be able to gamble. If you are desperate to gamble, you can do anything to get access to gambling sites. It’s better right from home you should discourage your children from gambling and make sure you monitor their activities.

More precisely, education only plays a relatively small role most of the time, children may study in the morning and afternoon but they still have a lot of leisure time to communicate with the media and society, and honestly, this era is the golden age of advertising, it's hard to keep a safe distance between teenagers and gambling. What the family and society need to receive is the formation of consciousness and becoming a mirror of reflection, fully reflects a good world as well as still retains the fun of gambling, despite the increase in gambling among teenagers, it is still in the safe zone to deal with easily

And this is why there is a suggestion about monitoring who could download the apps. These AI adverts are just smart to target individuals who are introduced to gambling. Kids who are fans of sports are encouraged to participate in gambling because of these adverts and the apps are enabling them.

Regulating these adverts however will require digital IDs which are also not approved by anyone. I myself doesn't want digital IDs. Which I think there really is the need for parents to keep educating their kids if possible, checking which apps should be on thier phones.

More regulation is not needed for this problem, as teens could easily find a way around them, after all it is not as if online gambling is all what it exist, since they could just gamble among their friends and there is no way to block them with online solutions if they do that, so what it needs to be done is to start prevention campaigns that show them that gambling at such an early age is not good for them and it is illegal, besides with that money most likely being given to them by their parents and not really belonging to them, they have no right at all to gamble that money away anyway.

This goes along with poor financial education in general, although I can only hope has improved in the last decade. You should never try to "prevent" anything when it comes to teaching, as making it look exclusive or restricted will appeal to younger audiences, potentially making them want to chase it more. A better approach would be to just make sure they have all the facts and education, so before they even enter a casino, they know they are going to lose money at most games inside. Describing the math and odds involved in a relatable way is key to helping them understand.

Yes, especially after gambling entered the internet media, which is a fact that most people now, especially the younger generation, are more comfortable spending most of their time playing on the internet or operating various social media, which is the biggest place for several online casinos to carry out promotions, and Of course, this means that the possibility of involvement of someone, including a minor, is greater.

On the other hand, yes, I understand that when a casino implements KYC on its site, maybe the younger generation or children who are still underage can avoid the possibility of being affected by gambling, but so far I see that it is quite
Many underage children are involved in gambling, especially in my area where it turns out they are involved in casinos
online that doesn't
implement a KYC system for each new member so clearly this situation makes it easier for anyone, especially minors, to get involved and gamble, on the other hand I think it is quite reasonable for casinos to eliminate or not implement a KYC system on their sites because as we know that is the aim The main thing is to look for more profits and if more people are involved then it means the possibility of their profits will definitely be greater.

I'd rather them deal with more substance abuse prevention in schools rather than gambling prevention.  I don't know maybe it's me but gambling seems like a singular sport where as drug use starts out as more a group thing which would make sense to talk about it in school.  Not that gbling addiction isn't bad but of the 2 substance abuse needs to be knocked out.

In try of teens getting hooked I don't know if there is anything that can be done unless they banned the mass marketing of it like draft kings on pro sports advertisements.  Things like that

If we do try to compare on how informations been passed through neither person to person or other means then we cant really be able to deny that in todays years or generation on which technology is really that getting advanced on where information and other things could really be seen online as long you do have that mobile phone then you could really be that able to make yourself be wary on what are the things that happening around in speaking about information and other happenings which been shared up through online. We do know that companies do really make use of social media and video streamings when it comes on offering their services and products on which you would really be having that kind of exposure if you would really be hovering yourself with your phone.

Nowadays on which even our children have their own devices too on which this do simply means that they are really that susceptible into that possible exposure with those gambling sites online or
any other correlated things which is connecting to gambling. It could really influence them once that curiosity would be kicking in. It would really be just that depending on how you do raise up your kids
because if you do make out that proper explaination and education towards it then they would really be naturally be avoiding it without telling them and this is the beauty if
you are a parent who do really knows on how to handle your family and teaching them the right ways or methods.

The future of the kids and their behavior depends on the upbringing of the parents. That is why parents should have to play as a role model for their kids and must correct the wrongdoings of their child before it get worse. While schools are dedicated to educating students, it is the part of their parents as well to have some follow-up because not all things that are taught in school are enough to educate young minds, which also needs the guidance of the parents. With this growing involvement of teens in gambling, parents have a big responsibility to stop it, not only the school.

With the way of the use of internet to gamble and how the young teenagers now have access to use a platform and gamble, this freedom they have should serve as an opportunity and not for them to abuse such because being at teenage stage, they are not yet fully independent and must still be under a guardian, which means, they are limited to doing some certain things, many could kicked against teenage gambling because they believe that early exposure sometimes brings about addiction.

Yes you have said the exact truth because drug use is so terrible for children and teenagers that it destroys the future life of a teenager by turning it into darkness. Rather than gambling, stricter laws should be made to ban the use of drugs by school-college children and teaching them about the dangers of drugs should be included in the syllabus and it should be made mandatory starting from the school level only.
I won't directly say that gambling is bad but there should be legislation to include age based gambling. In particular, school and college level children below 18 years of age should not be allowed to participate in gambling. Again warnings should be given in guardian quarters where guardians can keep children away from gambling and be aware of drug use.

Damn so this already spread everywhere I think this only happens in my country since I know it by myself here in my village there is a lot teen play gamble start from the middle school it like 13 years old frennn what a crazy right and the news is all over the place and mostly they play slot deposit and withdraw here is so simple you can top up using app called DANA via  minimart.

People are concerned this gonna blow out and the government start to notice it and keep blocking out gambling site since here gamble is also illegal

No matter how busy parents are with the work of educating their children is a priority, it is an obligation and this must be done to respond to and understand the child's maturity process. If parents are unable to provide education then don't blame the child if in the process of adolescence they experience a much worse life. Schools are very limited in providing education while parents have more time so parental control is really needed.

Many children go the wrong way because their parents don't care about the children and they prioritize work over the children, so that when the children grow up they will go the wrong way. Don't ignore children no matter how busy we are, because we will regret it if they grow up in the wrong environment.

I think it is a fact that schools only provide insight and knowledge about the various lessons that a child must learn and of course this is only to increase their knowledge of everything they don't know, but obviously for behavioral problems and habits it all goes back to the parents who have full responsibility for educating a child to have a good attitude and behavior. and also in my opinion for the problem of keeping a child from falling into various negative things then obviously it is the full responsibility of the parents and not the school, because the school only provides lessons to increase the knowledge of a child but they will not be too much, and also in my opinion for the problem of keeping a child from falling into various things that smell negative then obviously it is the full responsibility of parents and not schools, because schools only provide lessons to increase a child's knowledge but they will not care too much about what the future of a child will be like.

As you said that not everything taught by the school is enough to educate a child as a whole, meaning that the school only gives a few lessons to a child but the rest is the business of parents who must educate their children in all respects, especially in terms of behavior, because after all only parents have full responsibility for their children, meaning that parents should also create various actions to prevent a child from falling into gambling.

Did that really change anything? Do you think that teens don't smoke, drink or vape despite all the negative side effects that they are lectured about? They do and that's because if you do something like that, you are considered as one of the coolest person anywhere you go and everyone wants to hang out with you. Actors, singers, some athletes and many influencers promote that culture.

That does nothing but if parents take care of their children and become their friends and supporters, teach them and explain what's good and bad and how it will end up if they follow that path, then we will definitely have a very positive outcome out of this. Schools aren't gonna happen in this thing, parents have responsibilities too and there are things that you have to learn in your family and that's ethics, culture, manners and respect.

You just said the teens will do it because they think they'd be cool to their friends. Who do you think they listen the most while they are still teens, their parents or their friends or the school?

Because in some cases teens who do all of those vices change after they get older, some friends get married and work at their father's business, some become successful working in the city. They mature eventually and stop the nonsense. Those who got deeper got worse though. I must depend and who they listen.

Teenagers who already use gadgets and are connected to the internet make it easy for them to access anything on the internet, gambling is no exception, almost all young people have cellphones and can access anything they can access including gambling sites, sadly even minors can do it without the supervision of their parents and mentors at school.

The ease of depositing is something that is very dangerous for today's teenagers who access gambling, what I fear is that many young people lose themselves and play gambling irregularly so that they lose their minds and even worse are addicted and that can be created until they grow up which will have an impact on the growth of character as an irresponsible gambler, I am also Indonesian and in my village there are also many like that, there are even some who skip school and prefer to do gambling all day, and yes our government blocks many gambling sites because it is very dangerous for our country's generation, but in fact the government cannot block all gambling sites and there are still some that operate very freely and even advertise on social media without being banned.
In our country gambling is not only illegal; it is strictly prohibited.

Kids listen to their so called cool friends, they don't listen to their parents. In fact, kids hate to listen to their parents and many of them intentionally do opposite of what would please their parents. 14 years old kids smoke cigarettes man, they drink and take different drugs, they gamble, they do everything bad because for some strange reasons, it means that you are cool and kids want to be cool, they want to gain attention and respect from their inner circle.

As they grow, they mature but the problem is that many of them are sometimes left with anxiety, depression, addiction and so on. Today you are a cool guy if you are on Prozac. The world has gone crazy. The maturity situation is getting worse in kids who turned adults recently.

That's what happens in most cases. I had the same idea back in the day to impress classmates thinking I would be cool in smoking cigarettes but I'm sure I snap and rebel seeing I have been to the principal's office countless times.
 
Growing older and coming to realize the world doesn't work the way they thought, maturity comes and discussions with friends are not about music bands anymore but how to make money or find a job. They will still come back to the old gambling ways but they will not get addicted anymore.

Well said,  that was your decision as of then, of which you were acting based on peer pressure just to impress your friends. Generalization of kids is not proper, parents still have role to play, and limit kids to social media influence, monitoring there activities, set parental guidance controls. Instilling in them the possible dangers instead of neglecting them.

One thing for sure, everyone of them will learn overtime for now curiosity is pushing them.

It's called peer pressures, some are bullies, or if you wanted to join the group, then you have to also do what they did so gambling could be part of that group. And not only gambling though, it could also be one of the so called coolest things, which is to smoke.


World is evolving and there are societies right now that the influence of parents is very small unlike before wherein before you can even drink alcohol, or go to a party, you need your parents consent first.

World really has gone crazy indeed. These teenagers are being influenced by their peers hence, they are making some things that aren't good for themselves and even worse, these things might lead them to anxiety which will turn out to be depression that might cause to death. I hope that nobody here will have a child that will experience those kind of things.

Nevertheless, their definition of "COOL" seems to be wrong. If they smoke cigarettes or worse, weed, if they drink alcohol until get drunk, if they have large amounts of money, if they are wearing these expensive clothing, they find themselves as "COOL" already. TBH, this is getting worse that the age of kids who are doing these kinds of things are getting younger and younger. Heck, I've also seen kids here in our community that are gambling already (both physical and online), and the range of their ages are between 13-16. I asked them if where they are getting those money and it's from their parents. World really is getting worse, and worse and like you said, it's going crazy.

Well, I also agree with the fact that as they grow older, they might realize any time on their lives that what they did was wrong hence, they will stop it, and change themselves. As they mature, they will realize that what they did was wrong and they will change it.

Online gambling is a growing problem due to its 24/7 availability and among young people it could not be less.

What I wonder is where they can get money to gamble, because their parents' paychecks won't last long. Apart from the fact that to play in regulated sites you have to prove that you are of age, and if they are sites without kyc as for example crypto sites previously have to convert fiat to crypto. I do not doubt that they will find ways to do it but they have neither the same ease nor the same risk of squandering a fortune as an adult.


And what money do they bet with? When I was 13 years old I think they would give me the equivalent of 10 or 20 bucks a week and if I spent it gambling I wouldn't have enough to buy sodas or whatever.

We never knows what they will do if they don't have money. Maybe they will asks their parents to gives more money and they can use many reasons that makes sense so their parents will gives that money. They can lie easily to their parents and if their parents doesn't check the used of the money, their parents will not knows and still gives that money to their children. It seems their children is smart enough to avoids something that can makes them in trouble and if they knows about KYC, they will avoids it and will use crypto site that doesn't have strict KYC. Their knowledge maybe better than their parents as I see many children can use the internet better than adult people. They will knows how to solve their problem because their knowledge helps them to find a way to do that. It needs parents supervision to their children if parents doesn't wants to see their children use the wrong way.

Well that's bad per pressure is the number one enemy of teens since they fell bad in this especially if they are catching the attention if people around him. Maybe if we notice one of our family member showing some sign that they are into a lot of stress recently due to the activities they do then better we should spend some time to discuss their issue since this possible problem need to be discuss so everything will be corrected and they can avoid those people putting them into bad situation.

Those people are bad influence to them or maybe to other people to and maybe this indicates that how bad the gambling issues in their places so I guess its good to open up some discussion and try to make it viral to see if government will take action regarding on this gambling issues what young teens facing in their daily life.

When I was a kid and went to school, my father game equivalent of $1 a day, that I can buy something for lunch at school (even though school ended at around lunch time and I ate lunch at home). I have spent those money on snacks or chewing gums. When I was in the university, besides having a part time job, father also gave me around $50 per month as pocket money, which I supposed to spent on a snack or coffee during studies. I have spent those money on video games and on drinks in clubs. I was not an exception. I think every kid spent pocket money the way he wants, but not the way parents suppose they would spend it.

The idea is, that online gambling, like a trend, would end and teens will spend money on something else. That is just a fact and adults must accept that. Gums>Snacks>soda>games>gambling>. Trends can not last forever. After gambling it will be something else that will worry society.

Well yeah, you have a point but spending our money in different things is not the same the way kids spending it in gambling. It's okay to spend our money even if it's not our parents wants as long as it's for our own use but if it's for gambling, that's a different story, we really need the guidance of the parents because we all know that gambling will become the reason of developing addictions at very young age, and as you've said, it is trend nowadays that's why the counts of people spending in this activity is rising more and more. It seems unlikely that gambling will go out of trend because it has been in demand in society for a long time, especially now that there are many online gambling sites that are very accessible to everyone.

I would not use such words as developing addiction among teens or kids. Their addiction is easy to stop. They ran out of money and that is it. They might try to steal money, but only few do that, and many got caught. The real problem are gadgets and their affordability. Take gadgets from kids and gambling problems among teens will be solved.

Gambling as trend wont disappear, but gambling among teens as a trend will disappear most likely. Children are not permanent. All the time they want new and more. Ever seen kids playing with same toys, same video games, wear same clothes, using same gadgets? Adults can adopt to "old things", kids and teens no. It is easy to change teens trend - make something that was once expensive, more affordable.

I have met teenagers who are very well versed in gambling games and come up with various interesting strategies and try to win, but even they are at risk and can lose everything. If we talk about ordinary teenage players who don’t even think about any strategies, then of course this causes a great degree of concern in society. Teenagers simply place bets and hope that they will be lucky, without thinking about the consequences, they just want to win and brag to their friends about their winnings. Also, among colleges, fashion for something, for example, gambling, is spreading very quickly; everyone wants to try what it is and place a bet.

Naturally, this will have consequences if left uncontrolled, minimal control is probably needed so that they play less, but I think the problem is difficult to solve, because with online CIC, teenagers can play from other people's accounts, posing as an adult player.

If playing a bet meaning sports betting, then it could be the lesser of the evil amongst games. As we have seen that if they like getting addicted to casinos and playing roulette, dice, slot machine games, then that could really be dangerous for this kids.

Yes, if let uncontrolled, they can turn into addicts by the time they reach adulthood. And if by chance they got a job and start a family, maybe they can forget this gambling all together. But still though, everything depends on how we grow, if there are influence on us in terms of gambling.

Absolutely agree with your arguments. No program aimed at preempting anything works the way we want it to. And you can easily see that by looking at how many teenagers are vaping now. The same can be said for STDs, drugs, alcohol. Young people are always eager to try something new, perhaps even something forbidden. Therefore, I also believe that no educational programs can change the statistics of youth participation in gambling, as well as in all other spheres.

it won't be as easy as saying, taking children's gadgets of course it will only last for a short period of time. I don't think that will solve the problem of many young people who are addicted to gambling, they can borrow their friends' gadgets and I think they will do other things to can gamble again even if their gadgets are taken away by their parents. What's more, of course their environment is the same as when they have personal gadgets, and if they are prohibited like that, there is a possibility that they can carry out actions that can harm them and even endanger themselves, such as what you said is stealing money.
That's true, children will of course follow trends that are currently popular among them and I don't think it will be easy for them to avoid trends in their environment, especially young people are usually happy with their environment, especially if they like things that are trendy for them. Of course they won't be able to get out of this easily. Apart from that I doubt gambling will disappear among teenagers as a trend.

It's the same as my country, where day by day the increase in gambling is increasing drastically. The group from 13 years old to parents from my country's government was surprised that transactions in and out of money a day from gambling sites amounted to trillions. The more digital the access, the more efficient it is, but less appropriate to use, there are many buying and selling applications for carrying out transactions for gambling. causing an increasing number of underage teenagers to play gambling

Prevention campaigns do work, it is just that we cannot expect them to work perfectly, since there is always going to be many teenagers that may like something forbidden just because they like to go against the rules, they cannot resist peer pressure or they have some psychological issues, so teenagers getting into trouble by consuming drugs, alcohol or gambling will keep happening, so the only thing we can do is to try to reduce that number with prevention campaigns and give treatment to the rest that fall into that temptation.

So here you get money daily from parent to buy a snack in school, here in Indonesia only a few schools give a free lunch and most of them don't give any food to their student. Around 1$ a day for most kid and in here you can gamble from 5000 IDR or its equivalent 0.31 USD in a local site using e wallet crazyy right


Agree that at that age you can easily to stop kids from doing further gambling and when they try to steal it gonna be caught. the problem is when they reach high school, most of the kids know about money and how to earn it. and you can stop it if you have already touched a university student


What country do you live in right now? Here in Indonesia kids doing gamble is being headline all over the place  :'(

In my country, all the university students are +18 already, so they are fully allowed to gamble. They are out of discussion this time. Even if they  gamble, all of them, starting from second year of being in university, work on part time jobs. It is common for out country to send 2 year students on practice where they learn and earn.

The situation with kids and stealing. I think in most cases they get caught by parents, and after first time, they get ashamed so much, that they  never continue stealing. And they steal little money. I have never heard when kids steal thousands to gamble and that ended unnoticed. Those $5-20 they steal, they can repay by doing house work. That hard word is going to teach them how hard it is to earn, and hope they will reconsider continuing gambling after it.

You are absolutely right, the high rate of underage going in to gambling is becoming something else, they see gambling as a means of getting quick money.

They spend their time in gambling rather than studying their books or taking their studies more seriously, although I don't really blame them, it's the way our society are being so corrupt that might affect some of them but if our leaders will be able to handle this matter effectively by issuing a strong law, that will prevent them from gambling at underage, that will be really a huge help to them, so that they will useful to themselves and to the society as whole.

Online casinos have a very strict policy regarding underage gambling. They apply a KYC policy that prevent underage teens to gamble.

We can eliminate this problem by paying more attention to our teens in our houses but we are not doing this and allowing them to do whatever they like. With the attitude of not caring about our teens we are allowing them to make decisions on their own but they are not matured to make the right decision and any wrong decision that they take at this ages, they will live with that decision forever unless something happens that change that decision to a good one. We should always monitor our teens and they will be guided in the right path to having a bright future. We should monitor the activities that our teens are doing with their phone and restrict them when they are doing things that can damage their future. Gambling is bad for people that are not up to age because they can not make the right decision when necessary.

Prevention campaigns in educational institutions not only do not work, but may also generate interest in the area under discussion among young people who have not been exposed to it until now. You cannot see the real statistics from the inside, but you see the statistics presented to you by organizations interested in making these campaigns produce positive results. That's politics. The real methods of fighting any addiction among both youth and adults is the construction of special rehabilitation centers, and free of charge. Unfortunately, no one wants to allocate money for this.

Nah.

Online casinos do have mandatory KYC rules, but it's not that strict. I've gambled on many casinos and only 1-2 casinos that ask me to submit KYC, which mean I can just switch to other casinos if I'm underage.

Unfortunately not all parents have a good parenting knowledge, they only know how to fuck each other and give birth, but they don't know how to raise their child. Mostly their kids didn't get monitored by the parents since the both parents need to work in order to survive.

I think that's the point of the problem, where they think that gambling is a means to get money quickly, with thoughts like that they will become addicted, especially if they are lucky enough to win, of course they will be more confident that the gambling they do can result in winning. . Moreover, we know that ordinary children have desires that they must continue to do, so when they want something, of course they will do it until their desire is fulfilled. It's very bad if they spend their time gambling instead of studying like reading books or something else. because when that happens they have lost the opportunity to be better, even though there is a time when it is possible to change everything, it feels almost impossible to do it and succeed.

In my country, gambling is prohibited and indeed many people are strongly opposed to this, but with the increasing prevalence of online gambling, many young people and even minors are doing it, and this is only known by young people who are no longer strange about it. online gambling but they hide it from their parents, also with the advertisements that are increasingly appearing on social media, this has attracted many young people. However, even though the laws in my country are strict regarding gambling, I have only once seen the authorities arrest people who gamble online, but when it comes to people who experience bad impacts from gambling, it happens a lot.

This isn't a new thing though, concerns are a bit new, but kids are playing is not something new, we should realize that it is quite common in the gambling world that kids under 18 gamble. When you have online gambling, you do not really know who is gambling. If you have KYC in place, then you may, but if there is no KYC, how are you going to know if the person is playing could be 12 years old or 82 years old, you have no idea at all. This is why KYC was put in place for most casinos, some get away from it however they can, but most do it.

I think this has been a thing for many years. Kids would of course love gambling, kids love anything with adrenaline, some likes jumping off a huge cliff only tied to a rope, I would say I rather see my kid gamble all our money away, then see them jump from like some bridge with some rope hoping that rope would protect them.

Who is to be blamed in this situation? Without a second thought, I would blame the parents for allowing them to do all of that, and on top of that, they are giving these teenagers so much money without asking them what they are spending the money on. What kind of parenting is that? You can be careless as a person but you can't be careless as a parent because that will ruin the future of your children if you don't bring them up by teaching them certain things and disciplining them on certain matters.

A bad parent is the reason why we see bad children in society today. If parents keep an eye on their children, watch their activities and make sure that they aren't involved in things that aren't good for them, we won't see these kids doing all these things at ages where they should be focusing on their studies.

Recently, it seems that casino promoters are coming up with new ways to attract children to gambling. And it's not surprising - if earlier children were not interested in adult sports and casinos, now there is esports, and many boys have known professional esports teams in counter-strike and the like since high school.
Children are able to assess the strength of the players, which means they have an opinion on who is most likely to win. And if there is an opinion, then why not try to make money from it in gambling? That's how it all starts.

Here we need to think about whether we can completely protect teenagers from gambling? In the event that a casino or bookmaker’s office requires KYC and, among other things, asks about age, then, of course, this makes it possible to limit teenagers’ access to gaming platforms. But what if the gambling game is completely decentralized and does not involve user verification? You know that this situation is somewhat similar to the situation with cryptocurrency trading. After all, if a teenager has even small funds and access to the Internet, then nothing can stop him from trading. At the same time, on decentralized exchanges, he can, using special technology, take the so-called decentralized leverage and lose his money if the price moves against his position quickly enough. Both trading and gambling are often addictive. But if we are against KYC, then we must accept that teenagers will trade and gamble. I don't know if this is good or bad.

Lack of knowledge on things such as gambling, sex, alcohol, drugs and anything that can possibly destroy our lives when addiction hit us as a human will always depends on our knowledge about it. The more the knowledge we have on each things we avoid problems because we know what are the consequences unless we are stupid enough to cheat ourselves even if we already know the outcome if we fail in one of those. Gambling really is a threat to minors as it can distract their young minds instead of just focusing attention on their studies. Here in my country it is really quite alarming as we can see it anywhere especially on social media and even in television ads so yeah government doesn't care about it because they allow these ads for revenue purposes as restriction won't really work.

When they already know about gambling and the various bad qualities that you mentioned above, they will never forget it and will try to find deeper information about what will happen when they do the things above. Only with high enough awareness and the role of parents who always control and provide education and even give direct examples will make children think critically and make this an important lesson that can be taught to parents. The role of parents is very important and nowadays it is very easy to have a bad influence on children because of the increasing development of technology which makes it easier for children to access wherever they want.

Casino will search for a way to attract more customer, even if that means they will attract children to playing gambling. Casino have many gambling games that they can used to tempts people, including children to feels new experience to playing gambling games. That ways seems working to attract many children to playing gambling because we can see many children start to playing gambling without they realizes that's a gambling games. When children see they can make money from that games, they will try to keeps playing and even if they use money to play, they will not care. If there are no guidance from their parents, they will gets deeper on that games and in the end, they will becomes addicted to gambling games. It's a job for parents to always watch and guide their children not to playing games that use money and always discuss with their children what they do with their phones.

Teens get attracted to these activities very quickly and since they are in full bloom and not much experienced, they fail to understand the drawbacks of these activities like drugs, alcohol and excessive gambling.
The concerns get more serious when these teens do not focus on their studies and rather give their energies and time to gambling. When they start to win in gambling, they usually think that will adopt gambling as a profession when they do not know that winning and losing in gambling is unpredictable and in no one's control.


Social media gives only one side of the picture. Even the gambling sites want to see us only a single side of gambling which is winning and making money, No one tells us what will happen when you lose money in gambling. Seeing and hearing only positive things, will make to avoid the risk management and it won't be long before gamblers will experience a major loss.

When it comes to marketing then it wont really be just that limited to gambling industry alone but also in other industries as well on which it is really just that relevant that they would really be putting up some budget for exposure and we do know that social media platforms and streaming sites would really be them main places on which these business would really be putting into. Why? It would really be that common sense on which considering on how many people would really be able to view it then it would really be understandable that they would really be putting up such focus or consideration even if it means that it would be having that kind of exposure into those young people. The only thing that they could ethically be done is to make up some disclaimers that it isnt really that recommended for minors.

If we do speak on stopping them not to see those stuffs then its really hard to filter out. As a parent then the better step that you should really be doing is to make them wary
and tell them that its better to avoid once they do able to see or encounter it.

It sounds like a typical media buzz story, out to pull on those emotional heart strings and draw in lots of nervous parents. However it might actually do more harm than good for schools to even cover topics like gambling. I don't recall it in my education growing up and while you might be able to describe these things in the classroom, you'll find that it probably encourages kids to go out wanting to try it even more. Talking about gambling and educating on the pitfalls might be sensible to briefly cover, but it's the responsibility of parents as well to instil the possible dangers into their children. Maybe stick to a solid math education and they will work out the improbable odds for themselves.

Casino will search for many ways to promote their business and we already see that casino use social media to attract more people to comes to their place. Even casino hire many influencer to helps them promoting their casino and that strategy works well for casino that have more budget to promotes. Casino knows that they must prepare much money to promote their business and they also knows that if they can do the right thing, they will gets many customers comes to their business.

When many customers comes and playing gambling on their casino, the casino only needs to calculate how much money they will gets from the lose gamblers. They will see their business will grows in a short time, especially if they can promoting in many websites and hire many people to promotes their site. But for parents who had children must be ready to explain to their children about the danger of playing gambling in their ages. It needs guidance from parents to always besides their children so their children can feels that they are not alone.

What you are saying is correct, but whatever the government wants to implement to ban it for any good reason, it is for the sake of the teenagers at this age that we actually have. I also agree that it is better to teach the cons of gambling to teenagers.

At least they can see the effect that is not good when a person is addicted to gambling because of the addiction developed in the person who enters the online casino. or Why not implement in schools that when it's class time, cellphones are left in their lockers, then when it's breaktime or when class is over, they can use their cellphones again? At least in this way, they can stay away from such gambling apps.

the role a parents play in the upbringing of a child is too huge and complex such that they can't do it all by themselves. These vices are now common in the society and and lots of teenagers are actively engaging in them without thier parents having the slightest knowledge about it and even for some that there parents already know that they are engaging in this kind of act, it's even more deficult to talking them out of it or helping them moderate it all by themselves.

The schools and religious setting has a huge responsibility of discouraging them from getting into early gambling and getting involved in some of these vices you've mentioned cause at those age, they aren't mentality strong enough to manage their gambling habit and should they become addicted at that age, it's going to be a strong foundation that they are laying against themselves in the long run.

In most cases, I see many teenagers playing at this age and never returning when they lose a small amount, they are not completely stupid and often the collective mind tells them that this is not a place where they can easily earn their first money. But there will certainly remain a few who will be greatly influenced by the game and will become addicted and will not imagine their life without making a mandatory bet. I usually worry about the future fate of such players and they cause me concern.

I agree with you that young people are always drawn to forbidden things, probably they want to feel like adults faster and look cool compared to their peers. I sometimes think that bad guys even attract girls and want to impress them that way. Including in adolescence playing gambling and showing that they lose or win without fear of anything.  :P

In this aspect things with teenagers have always been very careful, it is said a lot that parents should be protective of their children, but I think that in adolescence parents should be much more alert, because it is very easy for them to choose what to do, personally I have always said something, parents have to pay more attention to their teenage children, because it is when it is easier for them to go wrong, with their tastes, with their things, their parents should be there to guide and supervise them, if they fall into the hands of casinos, you have to act quickly, before it is too late.

It probably depends on the upbringing. When the teen already rebels, he will not listen to the parents anymore especially if this child already has someone they can also rely upon. But if the child also aspires to achieve something in life, I think he could get over with whatever he's into already. It will all pass, gambling and drugs will all pass as friends move on, they will realize it. Usually, it takes longer but the sooner the better.

Governments have been taking measures like bans and taxing casinos but ads are pushing. The internet is just harder to regulate for them.

I agree. As the online gambling industry grows so does the number of young ones who are gambling. Then, there are social media platforms which had become the home of gambling advertisements. There are too many kids using those applications which is why I don't post any of my gambling tickets there. I will never boast about something that could harm another person.
In local television channels, it is true that the growth of gambling advertisements has gone up. Even the noontime shows are being sponsored by one of the popular gambling sites in my country which is scary. That is a noontime show where the whole family is watching which means there are kids too because of how wholesome the show is. But I think they didn't care because they needed that money.

The current government seems slow in providing education about drugs, sex, gambling and alcohol to young people, most of them are only busy with politics and money, I am also quite sad to see advertisements about slot sites or online gambling that keep appearing in the advertisements when we open Google, just imagine that nowadays children as young as 5 years old are exposed to advertisements like that, surely it will damage their minds in the future. Gambling is indeed a business that is legal in several countries, but not all countries legalize it. For this reason, parents must be able to educate their children about gambling, alcohol, sex and drugs from an early age so that it is not too late.

This is the same as when teenagers first found out what cigarettes were and started trying them and finally the government issued a policy that children under 18 years of age were prohibited from smoking, but for some reason in my country this is still not implemented well. I still see teenagers smoking and engaging in promiscuity even though doing things like that is not for their age, and currently online gambling is rampant in society when everyone uses smart phones so everyone can access gambling easily, unlike in the past there were only gambling places and teenagers. Not being able to play there is different from online where we don't know whether the user is an adult or a teenager.

Society should act firmly on those individuals who create online gambling by imposing conditions where teenagers have difficulty accessing online gambling so that teenagers do not gamble which will hamper their future if they know about gambling and provide education to high schools about the dangers of gambling which will make someone His life was ruined because of gambling by providing an example of someone whose life was ruined because of gambling.

Well, the education of our children should always be a priority, for example I am one of those people who thinks that children learn by example, if the parents are engineers, doctors, lawyers, they will want to copy that example to follow, no matter how adolescent and rebellious they become, they will always have in mind that they have to and must do something like study in order to get ahead, and this is something that should always be this way, however it does not always work and who can do what they say and well, it is difficult, governments have to make awareness programs even for parents in order to protect their children, including the Inappropriate use of the Internet.

I honestly don't think this is really that big of a concern.  I love to gamble, especially sports betting, but I really didn't get in to it until after high school.  I think in high school teens are more focused on where the party is going to be at that weekend and how they are going to obtain booze.  Plus, the majority of teenagers simply don't have enough money to buy their beer/weed and then to gamble on top of that, just too expensive for the majority of teens.

I believe you are missing one important aspect of sportbetting and gambling, specially when we talk about online casinos and bookies: the entry point or the money necessary to partake in gambling can be very low. Nowadays the digital gambling industry is both targeted to those with heavy pockets and also people who can only afford to lose 10$ per week or less. That is the advantage online casinos have over brick-and-mortar casinos, to gamble on the latter one, with the small budget of the poor, the travel could be of more value than the intended wager itself. One does not need to move anywhere to gamble on one's phone.

That being said, It is clear the critical factor is not the issue about teens whether having money to gamble or not, It is about the potential of falling into an state of addiction in a stage of their life in which they were supposed to be learning and getting ready to get a steady source of income in their adulthood. Gambling while they are dependants and teens is the issue. It could interfere with their development as helpful members of society.

Well being a teenager is something like an exposure era because it's definitely going to really hard for them to control that hormones that makes them feel like gambling always and its what drives them also to make and take drastic decision without fully understanding that there are consequences to their actions most especially not when they are gambling because that's the least of their worries @being addict but in the long run of things the most addicted set of individuals in the Gambling world are I believe teenagers even if there isn't proper evaluation of this theory of mine.

Teenagers may be more impulsive under the influence of hormones, but it is also important to remember that at such a young age they are more creative. Of course, there are those who do not develop or are very poorly developed, without basic education and who grew up on the streets. It is precisely these teenagers that I would classify as the maximum risk zone in gambling. Because never having seen huge amounts of money can turn their heads. Such teenagers will think that they are smarter than everyone else or that luck is their middle name and will lose everything that comes their way.

When parents are very dedicated people, they pay a lot of attention to their documents and constantly control their bank accounts and monitor everything their child is doing on the internet, then there is little room for their child to get involved in gambling, because minors old used their parents' identity documents to create accounts in casinos and then used their parents' bank cards to play, but nowadays casinos and those who buy and sell cryptocurrencies have a very evolved kyc system that consists of the person taking the ID and holding it while the camera scans the face of the person holding the ID to see if that person's face matches the face on the ID, with this evolved kyc system, it has become very difficult for minors of age to use casinos, because in my opinion I do not think that the number of children who get involved in gambling is increasing

And that is the very reason why education is very important for these people.
If they have the proper education, more than likely, their outlook in life would be different.
Their disposition also how to earn money will be more productive and of significance to the community.
We can't blame some of these individuals who didn't get education to pursue a rough path.
That's all they know how to get by in this life. And so the wrong choices they are making.

Of course I would agree with him on implementing gambling prevention in schools. Most of the young people all over the world have grown up with the development of online gambling. Now with the development of online gambling, the youths can easily access it with little privacy. Even though parents and teachers pressure them about this, they secretly indulge in online gambling through mobile phones. But I think every school should implement anti-gambling because if students get into gambling at the age when they are supposed to study and become human beings then their life will be completely ruined. Many may participate in gambling for the sake of fun but gambling is an addiction that slowly turns into an addiction through having fun. So I would like to draw the attention of every school institution and guardian of every student to prevent their children from buying mobile phones, if they can prevent them from buying mobile phones, they can definitely prevent them from gambling.

I really don't think so currently as minors now do more of physical gambling in the casinos especially those of them with bigger physiques and you cannot tell how old they really are. Funny enough in my country, there is little or no physical restriction of minors in offline casinos, they are much welcomed, and their gambling activities entertained.

These minors have grown wiser now, they know very well that the bankroll of their parents can mean a setup for them, so they can even use that of their grandparents who are less tech savvy or that of their grown friends who are still gamblers like them.

They can deceive grannies to do this when they have a good relationship and afterwards use their accounts for their preferred purposes, the parents can offer parental controls in the emails in their devices and ensure those emails are not replaced by these young ones in order to stay abreast with their activities, else the more restrictive approaches by these companies, the smarter these lads are getting to bypass those security concerns.

Not just education from their school but education from their parents is also important so their children will not trying to do something wrong for have fun. Children have many things to do to have fun and they can do that with their friends and parents but their parents must be closed to them so their children can share many things to their parents.
If children can gets a proper education, they will be more productive and can survive when they grow up and they will not use gambling to earn money. When their parents and teacher can teach many good things and always reminds them about the risk of playing gambling, their children will not trying to gambling and will stay away from gambling.
Their children know that playing gambling can makes them lose their money and will gets addicted to gambling if they don't have a good self control. That is why they will search for the other things that can gives them the fun and they will reminds their friends not to playing gambling.

Teens got bullied at school, they face stress during exams, some have fear to confess they did something bad, many manipulate others and harass them online, and so on. What I am saying, that kids or teens today already experience a huge bunch of emotions, but many see them as silly little kids that cant control emotions. Until gambling became so available thanks to gadgets, teenagers already experienced emotional breakdowns at age of 15-17. And people cared little about it, and advices just to wait. 10-20 years passes, and people create a huge problem from teens and gambling, due to "they dont know how express their emotions, they might be emotionally unstable to resist gambling losses". What do you think about that ? Like previously kids did not gamble? Like previously kid did not have emotions.

I may not confidently say that kid or teen don't have emotion, in my view without seeking any knowledge emotion is in born character just that to them that don't express it it may not showcase to the understanding of the closet around them until the showcase it, at little age it may appear infinitesimal but exposure to harsh environment and things that they can't handle may increase it reaction in the body of teen or kid.

Yes I concur that teen or kid may be emotional unstable to resistant if force on gambling or any thing that may currupt them or even leads to addiction and that is as a result of not attaining the decision making height for any that has reached the decision making stage is very hard to be unstable no matter what may leads to the emotional attraction.

This is true and indeed the majority of teenagers who are now familiar with gambling or have even been completely destroyed by gambling addiction are caused by their inability to focus emotionally on certain conditions when gambling.
They think that money is easier to get or can be done more quickly, especially when they can get big win then that is the beginning of their real downfall.
It also needs to be emphasized that teenagers will always think that what they do when they can get pleasure and satisfaction is an important priority, they will not think clearly in the long term if they are influenced by several activities that burden their minds.
I myself think that gambling is not suitable activity for teenagers or children who are still at school, and of course if they are familiar with gambling activities then there is chance of losing their future.

So, you are trying to say that just because they go through a lot, they should get a free pass to gamble. Is that right? I don't agree with that. I know and agree with everything you say that they face a lot of problems and issues in their lives and sometimes people don't believe them or listen to them but that wouldn't justify it if they start gambling just because of their problems because this would mean they are increasing their problems and not solving them.

Someone who already face a lot of problems should try and find a way to solve those problems, if children or teenagers don't have the courage to share everything with their elders, they aren't supposed to start doing something that can be even more harmful than the other problems they have in the long run.

It cannot be hidden that there are many cases of bad impacts that occur when they are familiar with gambling or even addicted to gambling, and this does not happen to just one group, there are young people, elderly people or even those who are still in school who have get to know gambling, especially now that there are lots of online gambling advertisements appearing and of course this is an opportunity for them to get to know gambling themselves. In fact, it is no longer strange if there are people who experience a lot of problems because they become addicted to gambling. With the large number of cases that occur, young people are very familiar with gambling, perhaps in every group of young people, there are definitely those who know about gambling and even do it.

I think one of the reasons why many young people gamble is because they want to be able to get a lot of money quickly, what's more, we know that nowadays, young people's relationships are very sensitive, where they often cook themselves to be able to appear in a luxurious style that other people want to praise. Well, to fulfill their fashion needs they need money and gambling is one of the things they believe can make money easily, but instead of wanting to make money it actually makes them addicted to gambling and it is difficult to get rid of this habit that has stuck. What you say is correct, of course gambling is not a good activity for those who are still in school or have just graduated, because if at that time they are already familiar with gambling then their future might be ruined.

As long online casinos and gambling sites are legal and easily accessible to everyone who owns or possesses smart devices and computers, teenagers and underages will always sort for ways and alternatives to gain access to them, regardless of the restrictions placed on those sites or their devices to stop or prevent them from participating in these activities.

Just like you rightly stated, the more you restrict them the smarter they become and the more you try to prevent them from doing something, the more you raise their curiosity and the more they become even more inquisitive to participate, so rather putting all that energy in tryna restrict them, it'll produce a lot more results when that energy is channeled on educating them on the possible dangers of gambling and how gambling can destroy a person's life who do not possess the required experience and skill to be a gambler.

Not exactly like that. Many people see teens as a sweet white sheep's. At what age could teens turn from "I get everything I ask parents" into "I have my own life, I can own myself" ? At 13 or 15? At what age they start to realize value of money, and it can be earned different way. Definitely not at 10. By the time teenagers would understand that they can earn from gambling, they would be more or less emotionally experienced to face difficulties. I got on this, because one of the reasons I hear here is that "teens are emotionally unstable". Imho they have experienced stress already in their life and know more or less how to cope with it. My idea is that they should not get a free pass to gamble, but teens arent little babies that use baby pacifiers all the time and have to walk why parents holding hands. Otherwise it is somehow unbalanced, that people babysitting teens, and ready to kick them out of the house when they hit 18 in few years.

Children and teenagers always have alternatives to be able to access online gambling and this is a problem that I think is difficult to solve. Teenagers can use the access of their parents or uncles or even other adults to enter online gambling that requires KYC. And another problem is that not all parents know how to use the parental control feature. Teenagers who play online gambling are teenagers who are not under the supervision and care of their parents. This makes them not know what is right and what is wrong, and then they become addicted to online gambling.

Of course, progressive systems with modern KYC stop some teenagers, but I’m just sure that if a teenager is obsessed with the idea of ​​gambling, nothing will stop him, because he will find any way to bypass this system and gain access to the game and bets. Various forums will help him with this, where they share experiences, his friends who know how to do it, as well as other options.

Of course, education influences the choice of life path in adolescence, and also decides a lot about what our parents instilled in us and how we were raised. Yes, I agree that we cannot talk badly about such teenagers, because anyone could be in their place, if we talk about independent reasons. It’s another matter when a teenager has enough everything in life, but he deliberately or for bad reasons wants to lose money in gambling.

Honestly, I don't know the parental control feature. Luckily, my wife does. :D
The sad part today is that you can play even without KYC as long as you are not hitting the amount that you need to show some identification before you can withdraw or deposit. Anti-money laundering rules. But if a child or a teenager keeps it at the amount that won't hit that surface then he/she can gamble as much as he likes because there's nothing that needs to be passed to prove that you are an adult.
This is the problem and yet many people are still against KYC. Kids can get in and out without being noticed and probably now many of them are playing without the knowledge of their parents.