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Gambling is reserved for adults, for many years most gambling sites specify the age limit the accept on their gambling sites. Considering the level of exposure and how far information flies. Younger kids mostly those who depend on their parents for survival engage in high risk gambling. Most of them bet with their tuition fee and little stipend given to them by their parents/guidiance, what age should a child reach before allowing such to gamble. Since maturity in different continent is been accessed based on different factors. In some part of the world age bracket is a key determinant of maturity but for some other regions exposure and intelligent quotient plays a key role in maturity state.

If one was to advice a child who wishes to gamble, what would be the criteria to permit the child to engage in gambling considering the risk involved and how matured the child might be. Would it be based on the emotional state of the child or would age play a determining factor. Considering that different continent would address this matter differently. If we want to give a general approach in tackling a case as this what would be the criteria or the bases for allowing a child gamble

In situations where the child cannot be convinced to wait till he gets emotionally matured or attend a certain age before gambling what could be the best approach and how could one help such a child manage his/her losses most especially in situations where the child gets so addicted to gambling.

Cases of this nature arise daily in our society. Younger children engage in gambling this days compared to adults and I believe its to late to stop them so what approach do we embibe to help the younger ones mange their finance and prevent them from lossing more than the can afford to loose.

I will still love to know if there could be a strategy in which we can use in helping the younger generations to avoid gambling until they are mature in all aspect so as to curb excessive mismanagement of funds appropriated for very important purpose

Robert Kiyosaki the author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" says his rich friend traded $200,000 on stock markets as a teen or younger age.

It may not be so much about chronological age as it is about being raised to be stable with money, investments or gambling.

Many have a poor time controlling their spending and saving habits. Its not a trait reserved for an exclusive age or demographic. Rather something people of all ages struggle with.

Children getting involved with gambling on a very young age would particularly always reflect with parenting.If children did got involved on a very young age
then theres no doubt about the irresponsibility of its guardians.When we do talk about age bracket then theres no specific but it would be just right if
people who do tend to engage with it will have some awareness on what it is all about and the risk that they can get on dealing with it.
As long you do know on when to stop and how much you should spend then i would say that you are actually on the right path on things.

Honestly, I just don't want to see a kid gamble. When we describe it as a child or kid, then we're thinking of the age bracket as really young and they shouldn't be gambling with their parents money. Even with parents consent, that's not good type of parenting.

Although on my teenage days, I started to gamble so if there's a metric of age, I would say that they should be at the right age. Maybe after college and they already have their job and own money to gamble with, they're classified as the young adults.

i guess, i can agree with that. young adults at least earning money for themselves. so even if they gamble, they already know the hardships that they went thru just to earn that money. they know the value of money because they work for it. and i think, for these young adults working,  gambling will not be their first choice to spend their money.

for those who want to check the age restrictions of gambling in some countries,  Rengga Jati created a thread for this -

 Age restriction in gambling (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230360.0)

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This PDF shared shows that the most gamblers spend their time are most commonly senior citizens because they had a lot of free time.
So, asking what is the best age bracket for gambling? Wait when your age belongs to senior citizens and have a monthly retirement allowance to spend in gambling, that is a perfect age for you to gamble to avoid boredom.

How do we tackle issues where kids gamble with their school fees, little allowance given to them by their and some go to the extent of stealing from their parents to gamble. Gambling been so addictive if not traded with caution might also force this kids into stealing from neighbors since the lack a source of income and still depend on their parents for survival. How do we advice the upcoming generation who engage in gambling quite early in life. How do we educate them on money management along side proper risk management in gambling and life affairs in general.

The thing is that it is complicated to just set a certain age for people to be able to start gambling. As a matter of fact, it is a very serious problem here in my country that gambling is rampant, not because the gamblers are mostly underage kids but mostly because gamblers, most of them adults, don't have self-control.

Personally, I think the age limit for young people to be allowed to gamble should be increased. I am not in favor that since a child has already reached the age of maturity, he/she will automatically be allowed to gamble. That shouldn't be the case. Whose money will he/she be wasting in casinos?

Gambling age limit should be set around the age when a young person is already employed. I guess it is best not to allow gambling to young people at a certain age range when they're expected to be still in college.

It isn't that easy to set an age bracket ngl. Why? Some people just learn earlier than others.  When you expect adults to have better control over their lives, it turns out that underage kids are actually much better at controlling themselves (ofc, this could also go the opposite way, but THAT'S how they're supposed to act). Not to mention that some kids earn money themselves at quite a young age already, so opening up access to gambling could also be seen as fine/okay in my eyes. Still, I suppose if we take into account the majority (not all) and if we consider how people graduate in college in ages 22-23, and have a consistent job by let's say 25, then that could just be the proper age bracket (instead of 18, if we consider when most people start earning money anyway).

Or just create a system where employed people for more than a year have an id they can use to register in casinos and is immediately removed when they get fired. Though this does create issues of what ifs like financial traders, youtubers, streamers, etc.

I think its better if we introduce them to the market but not on the gambling market well some younger age already know how to gambling and there's nothing wrong with this at the early age they know already how the gambling runs out and they can use this as a skills or assets if they want to earn additional profit but today with the generation z most of them cant handle too much of their emotions they are still unstable in decision making which is too much bad for their  part this is the reason we need to guide them how to handle the money properly and control themselves to avoid giving a wrong decision makings.

Yeah Majority of ages that was accepted in gambling are 18 years old and above but in some country they are even lower.

Actually there is a thread here in gambling section in which it was mentioned  that even below 10 years younger is legally allowed .

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But for me personally , I wanted to let a people play gamble when they are already responsible and that is at least 25 years and above , at least with that Age gambler may have His own work( hopefully)

No one below the legal age limits should gamble, but this does not mean in automatic that anyone above it should do it, we must remember that just as there is a physical age based on the date you were born there is also something called mental age, there are people that are adults but their mental age is way lower than that and for people that cannot control their impulses it is better that they do not take in gambling activities at all so they can avoid losing all their capital.

Depend on what parental decision is and me as parent ? i believe that 21 year of age is the actual allowable to gamble .

With their own responsibilities , and no need for parents consent  .

It could be 18 or 21 but I do agree that they need to have a responsibility first and they also have to have their own jobs to make it so that they don't spend the money of their parents. I think that if there is no intervention in parents there also should be no help received from the parents when these people are drowning in debt.

I am not sure about the strategy, even if it is implemented, all gambling sites say +18 and above, in fact, it is only written, no, especially kyc, most gambling sites, name, gmail, passwords are complete.

Online gambling sites, it's a little difficult to avoid young people today being involved in gambling, the proof is, I see 12 year olds who are involved, it's strange, but that's the truth.

Strategy may not exist, advise directly, maybe, that's a good strategy, but not sure they stop completely, behind us playing.
Maybe, now direct / physical gambling is rare, online is one reason why youth are involved nowadays, the pandemic, is also a bad factor today that affects young people to fall into gambling.

Maybe 5-10 years will come, 7-10 year old kids are already good at betting on gambling.

I wouldn't recommend gambling if you haven't got any stable income regardless of age. This is the most crucial thing since if you don't have spare money to gamble, then don't. People go homeless because they are bad at managing money regardless of age, even if they have good jobs on their name. If you're just bad at managing finances no matter how old you are AND you think of gambling, just don't IMO.

Well Since i Started gambling at younger age and now as a father ? i will never let my children suffer my stupidity in gambling back in the days.

Yeah it helps me develop some attitude and learn earlier to respect decisions , Yet it's not enough for my children to have the same path.
Maybe i i were to decide ? i will ask government to Let the parents decide when to let their children play so as long as they have no consent to gamble and still living with them? they cannot play without any age specifications .

Supported this one and yeah this is a must.
Because this can push people to do wrong just to have funds to gamble.
I totally support the sense of your post , and as a former addicted gambler ? i must say that gambling really brings us nothing but losses.

before it leads to addiction we can do ways to prevent it . dont spoil your kids by giving them lots of money .
when i was a kid my parents did this and i worked hard to earn my cash and that made me discourage of betting in gambling  in an early age but as i grow older i have different sources to earn an income , i can now afford gambling  .
i started gambling when i was 18 years old because this was the legal age in every addictive activity  .  as a good boy i followed this rule

Gambling is very addictive and so must be taking care of diligently, kids often fall victim because they cannot control their feelings and they go awkward when they time comes, variably, it's necessary to handle the age bracket to fits in eligibility of gamblers.

In West African country that I come from, age bracket from 18+ are liable to gamble with no ease, any children found in gambling hall are chased away, allowing them to start going into gambling will really cause harm on them and the society at large, the addictive energy in it is very high and so children at the specified age are allowed.

Still boils down to the society where the child grows in my opinion. If at a young age, he/she sees people around him like his Dad into gambling, no doubt that he will be influence to do the same at the young age. Family and social environment are a big factor here, at least this is my case. Was involved in gambling at a young age because I see people around me gambling all the time.

the most important thing in my opinion is that those who are more suitable for gambling are those who already have a steady income or a steady job.
And their gambling capital comes from their jobs and only uses extra money, they gamble just for fun when they have free time, and some of my friends do and they are around 20 to 25 years old on average.
so the right age to bet is 20 years and over and already have your own income without harming anyone else.

Well, anyone who has started earning for themself and little matured knowing between the fun and addiction then can start gambling. Though there is no specific age as everyone becomes matured at different ages and start earning for themself at different ages so will be dependent on them. But after college would be the best, I suppose may be better.

There's really no complicated strategy it all comes down to respect, teach a child how he will behave in his younger days and he will not depart from it, if you have a good relationship with your child, your child will have respect for what you are going to say and, you must lead by example young people are looking for a figure that can look up, be a good role model in gambling and your child will follow your example.

I dont know on other countries but here on my place the age on where someone could actually legally play would be 18 years old but only to those who would tend to go into  those casinos.

Can this really stop for young people to play? No it wont and even with the most simple form of gambling even young people would really get involved into specially in local places where
authorities cant really check out much on whats happening on the community.

Perfect age for gambling is on the age where these kids grown into mature but we know that this isnt something that can be identified precisely because development of each person
is totally different. So letting people play gambling legally will really be set out specifically with governing bodies.

Well as far as i know there are traders that started trading at their young age. I guess those young traders have previlege in life or their parents are been doing trading too so that they teach their children how to trade too and also they provide their capital to start trading. But honestly speaking, i guess at age 20 is already enough to handle trading and the fact that at this age we can understand it deeply and can commit themselves in trading.

We should not make children at young age involved in gambling because the losses from that could negatively affect their mentality or they could become addict to betting which could result in more worse phase in their life afterwards.The legal age as prescribed by government is almost 18 in most of the countries and it not just they have come up with this idea but have done proper research about it.You could teach children at young age under the adult guidance and make them learn so as they have skills when they grow up with experience of more than hundred of betting games.That idea is good but if you are asking for childrens less than 15 to indulge in such works then it is really a bad move.

I don’t think there is an age bracket that is perfect for gambling because if you really are good at it, age really doesn’t matter. I knew someone before who started with bitcointalk and started trading at the same time too when he was 13 years old: mind you this kid was really smart and was on the honor roll until such time he was earning more than the average worker from where he was at and was able to renovate their house just by trading. So I don’t think there is an age bracket for gambling, just by my friend’s experience.

If you ask me, it should not be related to the perfect age. But you should be at least 18 years to avoid problems.

We can make them stay away from anything that looks like gambling which does not make them curious about a gambling game or something similar to that. Younger children will have a big curiosity to know anything they want and if we can not watch out what they do, they will search for themselves and maybe they will discuss with their friends who knows about that.

In this era which younger children can access the internet easily, they can borrow their father, mother, brother or other family members mobile phones to browse on the internet, just to fill their curiosity. Adult people are not prohibited and tend to let them search for what they want.

Maybe we can give approaches to them by always take care of them and if they ask about something smell gambling, we can tell them that is an activity that can make them in risk situations, even they can lose their money. Just make sure they understand what we say, so they can accept what we explain to them.

I agree with you that we need to protect the younger generations from excessive gambling. But if the never get used to gamble responsible in their youth, the risk of getting hooked later in life is still there. So avoiding gambling all together is the wrong approach in my opinion. It is better to educate the younger generations on how much risk they can take and when it is getting enough. One good thing as a younger person is that you are learning faster, you should be able to adapt better to new gambling strategies. Another factor is that younger people have usually less captial at hand to use for gambling, so any potential losses might be lower than later in life.

Below 21 years of age are still in the scope of the parents supervision. So, that still depends on how the parents discipline their children and draw away from any gambling activities while their still young. Another good discipline is not to spoil your children with a lot of money in their pocket or bank account while they're still young.
But the most effective strategy for this is to strictly prohibit minors from online gambling and physical casinos.
That might not be possible for crypto gambling, because crypto is is promoting anonymity. So then again, parents are still held accountable for this issue.

For me the perfect age bracket is 22 this is the age where a person finished his school and already working, and he is started to be on his own, so if he will gamble he will be using his own money and also at this age he is already matured and he knows what is right and wrong and he knows his goal,he can make a right decision on what he is going to do with his life.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean and I'm not talking about trading and you should read it carefully. Don't rush, it's about gambling on the topic "what age group is suitable for gambling"

and if it is meant to trade with what age group it is suitable for trading, I will educate my teenager to learn crypto trading and he is 14 years old so when he grows up he will become an expert trader.

In this bracket the person already have good understanding with how everything works.

Just like how you explain it, from this age this person can decide clearly in what  and how to behave properly. Their involvement to this activities is on thier own decisions, and in terms of financial status, this age mostly done wth their educations and they are possibly
working and using their own money.

after high school. 16?

as early as possible a kid should learn to value money though so if he gambles before 16, he will learn that gambling could end up in losing his money. it's the way to make kids learn. allowing them to experience it as early as possible will make them not interested in gambling when they get older as they've already experienced it a long time ago. we all have tried playing cards when we were 4th grade for pennies and then get over with it after days.

The legal age in my country is 18 but for me, when it comes to gambling that is still a young age to start gambling, and I'm sure the emotion at that age is still weak and can easily be driven by greed, so for me the perfect age bracket for gambling is around 23-30 this is the time where people starts on working for their family and started to work for their dreams, on this age they can easily understand the importance of handling their money, and maybe they'll realize that gambling is not for them.

We can start teaching our children at the very young age about the importance of Money and how they should spend it, we should start guiding them and teach financial literacy because this one is not being taught in school, so parents have to do their part as well. I don't want my Children to start his gambling addiction at the very young age, I wont allow that to happen and I think that's a responsible parents.

Well I do think that :
These things should not only be based on age difference but rather it should be based on : Economic situation also. Ofcourse the gambling should be legal for people only above the legal age of 18 or 21, depending on the country's legal age.
After High school ? This is indeed not a good idea since at that time a person is not stable and without any job stability or whatsoever I do not think they should try and Gamble much.
More than 21 should be legal !! Plus if a person is not economically capable of gambling and doing such things , wasting unnecessary money they should not engage in them. Only Gamble when you own that money and it's in excess. That too in a limited quantity.
Plus monitoring the Gambling is also important for all age groups, I do think if a person is engaging in addictions and such they should be provided assistance time and again, plus even on the major gambling sites people now have an option to seek for help and that too "for free"

I don't think children of young age would be appropriate to gamble. There are still other things that they should enjoy except for gambling. As for me, it will be hard for them to handle the consequences of wrong decision-making. It's better if a person is at the right age to do it with enough understanding and knowledge about the risks of gambling. Someone who is financially and emotionally capable of dealing with the world of gambling.

Legal games? I think it should be 18 years old and above.

Illegal? Nah, obviously, they are not going to follow any rules so they will allow anyone that is willing to play and gamble with real money on their bookies. And that's why many become addicted and by age mid 20's we hear a lot of these young kids who's lives are destroyed because they started early with their gambling vices.

In online casino? Yes it's possible for minors to play but on Physical casino, They will be screen at the entrance and in case a minor player got enter in casino. He will not able to withdraw it because they will ask valid ID in able to cash it out.

I believe there is no perfect age to play gambling (considering legal age only). As long as a person has a sufficient extra money that he can spend on gambling, that is the best time gamble.

In some countries a child is allowed to play even at the age of six, I will not discuss illegally, because the government of one's country is the one that will set it up, but the perfect age for me for an individual to gamble is 20, just enough age for an individual to know the meaning of gambling and where he has control and responsible on his action.

Why are everyone disliking gambling, no comments above had ever shown how gambling can be helpful, what's actually wrong in that, you are actually hating gambling by isolating yourself and your children, everyone gambles in life, though it's not appropriate to gamble from going age, but in as much as there are plenty of gamblers in the society, children are liable to be spoiled by their friends, you might not known your children had started gambling, it's good to advise them not to get addicted in it, if at all they have developed interest in it.

If a kid at age of 6 gambles, something is wrong with his parents... or maybe he doesn't have parents in the first place! And here I am not talking about is it legal or illegal, I am talking about the parents that should teach their kids some other more important things in life than gambling! I guess teaching your child about gambling can come in some period (like with all things, I think parents should teach their kids first before anyone else), but for sure not before teaching your kid about what is money, how to earn it, invest it, save it... and in the end having fun with your earnings!
I have kids, I can teach them about gambling, and I probably will one day! But before we get to that life lesson, many other lessons should be learned!

in fact, games (mobile/pc/console) which has microtransactions already introduced kids to indirect gambling.
these kids need to spend their points to have a chance to get random in-game items.
some players who don't have enough points will buy points with real money via google play or the app store.
sometimes, this activity is more interesting than the gameplay itself.
the gap is so tight, between gambling and this kind of activity.

Most actual casinos will have protections on the outside that prevent too young members from joining the casino, they are not old enough to be liable for losses but gambling comes to us in many different ways, young people can as you say, participate in gambling online as long as they have enough money, everything is private with the guarantee of online casino. Perhaps we need to educate children more about gambling, at least restrict them from this game until they have a stable income and job, probably the most perfect is that they are over 25 years old, their thinking will be more mature and controlled

The age bracket for gambling has been set at 18years of age. It might vary across nations but, this is the one set for my country and it follows a precise calculation form which, one is presumed to be an adult, capable of independent existence and gainful thoughts that would be beneficial to the individual's life and the society.
Though, I don't really think there should be an age bracket for gambling. I agree that gambling shouldn't be a thing for kids quite alright but, I also think it would be very wrong should most adults gamble. Some adults are not capable of measuring when its just enough and when to halt in gambling so, it goes beyond age brackets.

I don't think that it is all about age? Maybe if it is in age then probably the age that suits was 18 and above because these ages are the on who is adult already in which they can gambling their own money. Another thing is that perfect for gambling are those people who has a good job or have a job so that they can support their financial needs in order to gamble. It's very hard to gamble if you don't have an source of income like a decent job because at the end of the day the money you are betting or playing must be your own money.

I've started gambling ever since I was 11. Carnival games where you're given the promise of a new toy or more money for your penny, I believe this is what kickstarts gambling in our early ages. I've tried hard gambling when I was already 21, which allowed me to make sound decisions in my gambling path. Personally I would suggest an older age bracket, probably around 30-40 as it is at least guaranteed that you have money to burn, unlike on your teen years where you literally would need to gamble with and for your allowance.

Maturity in gambling depends on your emotional state, a person who is still young can start to gamble and understand the risk and employ control not to become a compulsive gambler, and an old guy can gamble the first time and lose everything because his emotion is not stable, it's not the age actually but his emotional maturity on how to handle things.

With all due respect you have a bad approach to the solution and it is based on the wrong information you have in the problem statement.

Much of what you say is unrelated, it is only related to the perception of your experience or of believing that it is so. A great majority of contemporary adults grew up with board games as their main family distraction and today most have very good experiences and memories, there are even people who reach +18 and forget about these games because they have learned through the years With upbringing that there are goals to be met based on work and effort, life goals are learned as a family teaching, mainly from our parents, even regardless of what they dedicate themselves to or what problems they have.

Agree with this.

All talks or depend with maturity when it comes to gambling awareness when it comes to risk and possible problems that you would be faced off.There's no certain age into that
because people could differently able to achieve those awareness on particular time.

Depends on the approach you do have in gambling.Perfect time isnt needed but only the common sense on what you are doing.
Play for fun and dont chase up on getting rich because this is the primary mistake on where people do commits.

Yes, that's part of being responsible with their own finances. It's their money and whether they spend it for gambling as long as they have earned that and never asked from anyone or their parents, they're at the right time gambling.

The bracketing of age for gambling really differs from the society where you've grown and I think that's how I describe the society where I lived.

There's no reason for a child to understand gambling in a very young age unless he is interested and out of curiosity you let him try it and turns out he is a genius. Then as a parent, you'll decide whether to let him play or not but if we're going to talk about the law, I guess it's not right to let a child gamble even he is your son.

My number 1 reason for that is because is his safety as well as your whole family, because you know, somebody might envy him or get annoyed to him for being good and do something bad to him or to your family. Second is that something might escalate later on when he is playing gambling or he could steal your money since you're not giving him any for gambling, etc...

The best age range is probably somewhere within the 20s, I don't mind other countries having lower age restriction because I think it depends on how well the younger gamblers are guided by their parents to avoid addictions from developing in the first place. Giving them reminders won't always work but it's better than nothing since there's not much we can do about the age restriction between different countries. Also like the others have mentioned there are games that lets you experience the way gambling works through lootbox, plinko to name a few.

Yes, 20 years old is very effective in gambling and can easily understand any gambling especially poker gambling which can test patience and skill in playing and still need to be taught how to play correctly by parents.
In fact, the age limit is actually not a problem because many teenagers play gambling without the knowledge of their parents and they play gambling which is still related to games such as plinko and so on.

As much as possible gambling should be avoided because once you learned it and thought that you could make money from it then this will be the start of your gambling addiction. I first learned bitcoin gambling when I was 17 and with my 0.002btc that time I managed to make it 0.08btc in just one night. With greediness and thinking that my win streak will continue that night I continued until I hit that losing bet, I tried to recover it but I ended up with 0 balance. I could not slept for a day or two that time and I can't still forget it until now.

Each country that legalizes gambling has different rules regarding the age limit allowed to play gambling. The average age will not be far from
the age of 17-21 years, because that age group is suitable for playing gambling. Based on the results of the analysis I did to be able to start
playing gambling is the age of 21 years and over, because most people after the age of 21 years have started to be able to think in an adult
manner and be able to control their emotions is also much better. So I strongly advise against gambling before the age of 21.

Young minds are so aggressive when it comes gambling decision which is not really good. With the age of 30 and above will likely have the responsibility, a job, and already have an advance decision making which is suitable for this field. But, this doesn't mean that below 30 is not welcome, yes they are as long as they can provide their need and by asking money from their parents or the worse they commit illegalities just to funds their needs.

That also applies to those above 30 though. Age is a factor, but it isn't the entirety that one should use when judging whether a person is "aggressive" or not in gambling. Besides, being aggressive doesn't necessarily mean that one is unable to manage his/her funds properly. Additionally, I'd also consider people who ask for money from their parents to be excluded from those that are allowed to gamble. After all, one only realizes the value of something when they themselves earned it. Someone who has a job, no matter the age I suppose should be good enough to gamble.

Because of social media and the age we are in currently, there is barely anything reserved for a particular age bracket. The search and excitement for quick money has driven and caused some under the legal age of gambling to click and say that they are above 18.
 The major reason why gambling is not adviced for people not only less than 18 but also those who cannot control themselves is that it is a dangerous addiction and can lead to the loss of fortune if left uncontrolled.

Just be realistic , Those who are voting for 18 y/o and to 21 are surely not a parents already .

Because we as as parent we wanted to Keep our children safer and gambling is a threat for them.

They are under 18 years to easily find anything from the internet as we know that the internet helps us search for what we want. So that makes the younger people click the advertisement that they met from the website or social media. Most of them don't know if that is a gambling game or other things that they should not open at their age.

Sometimes, people under 18 years will hard control themselves, especially if they found something of interest, so they will continue to do it for some time. If they really can't control when to stop, that can make them addicted in the long term, which means, if they addicted to gambling, that can make their lives not better than their friends.

There's a lot of traps for an individual if they start at the wrong age, teenage years are not the right time to start gambling, their minds are unstable and they do not have a moral obligation yet, easy money is attached to gambling and this is a wrong way to teach an individual to make money, the right age for me is 22, at this age, a person already finished his study and had a job and there's already some degree of maturity.

I think the perfect age to start gambling would be when you're over ~35, as at that age you're young enough that be able to use the winnings and at the same time  people tend to have more control over their emotions by that age and less prone to obsessive gambling as you are a bit more experienced.

And it also totally makes sense that the older people have higher average playtime in gambling since at that age life could get pretty boring and even if you're not after the money you'd gamble just for the kick of it and that dopamine rush to make life more exciting.

There is no perfect age to start gambling but I think no one should start before they start earning some money on their own. That's when people are just getting their lives started, they're out on their own, they're getting a little bit older but still young enough that they have the aptitude for it. The point is you must be wise and you must know the pitfalls.

I think plus 18 or atleast the gambler should have a steady income outside of gambling, a job for example because if you are gambling with a capital and you know you do not have any way of getting money outside of gambling then losing will have a really negative impact and you will be trying to loan money so you can recover your lost money then you will lose more and more.

I agree on you , because we can make our self as an example about this , we learn in younger years and it brings us not that good start .

I even spend all my school allowance to gamble, I even took some funds from my parents just to sustain mg gambling activities.

That's why i believe that right age is if the person is already capable in providing for himself and not those still living with parents.

A child shouldn't be allowed to gamble anywhere. At 18, you are no longer legally a minor, so that's the age you take full control of your life and have to suffer the consequences of your actions as well. The regulations in a country have to be the same for everyone. Children generally don't have the conscience or the mental capacity to comprehend things and look at the whole picture the same way adults do. Most of them still haven't leant the importance of money and financial stability. It's true that some have. But they are a minority.

Those scenario depends on what community are you on since if you live on slum area then high probabilities that a child will engage on gambling.

The right age for me is 18+ since a person in that age can decide on what he want especially on gambling and this is also suggested by government but if your relatives engage with this maybe try to guide him on what to do so that he will not end up addicted playing those games.

In my opinion, gambling should be controlled in the same way as alcohol and cigarettes.

Gambling can cause addiction in a person.  There is a dependence on alcohol, there is a dependence on smoking, there is a dependence on gambling.  Children are prohibited from smoking and drinking alcohol.  In my opinion, a similar approach should be taken with regard to gambling. 

Also at school you need to teach children the basics of mathematical probability theory.  This is as necessary as initial sex education.

I have learn gambling as far as i remember ? my age runs from 7-10 i guess.

Local gambling Like petty cards and even coins game.

Though there is a Bad indications yet I Get mature learning from my past so for me ? Let them learn from their Younger years and let the future tells them what to do.

But of course Parental guidance is always the best way , but AFAME is concern ? i will always follow my action.

Everyone usually has a different minimum limit when they can start playing gambling. But I believe most people think 17 years is the age that can be
allowed to play gambling. Because when a child is 17 years old, they can distinguish between negative and positive things, even though usually
17 year olds are emotionally unstable. But at least 17 year olds have started to have a more mature mindset. Although to be honest, 17 years old still
need parental guidance and supervision when playing gambling, In order not to become addicted when playing gambling.

Actually, that is right. Sometimes, the environment and status in life you are in are big factors whether a person will learn how to gamble. But I prefer for the generation today to be more responsible when it comes to gambling. 18 and above is just right as they already know the concept of earning money. They can also decide on their own whether to venture in this game of chance. Though it is better if there will still be parental guidance when they are entering in this world of gambling.

In my opinion there is no such thing as a perfect age bracket, because the big risk og gambling is addiction. Addiction is something you cant control with your ratio, so as a consequence it is not a mattter of age, but a matter of some other variables.

When we say perfect for gambling, what we do expect is that in this age, we can think rationally, perfectly and no personal issue, but we also need inspiration and motivation to push through risks that we will take, so by considering these factors, I can say that the perfect age "maybe" is around 30-40 yrs of age.
In this age, we are hopeful and kind of young compared to 40 and above, our judgement aren't clouded, and we are old enough to have the necessary experience to push through what we are hoping for.

How do you propose about monitoring your kid whether he is gambling or not, if he is already 18 years old and if he is earning then it is his choice on what to do with the money he makes and there is no point in baby sitting at that age. When i was in that age group no one monitored what i was doing when i go out to party with my friends and we have been to casinos and had a good time and we will not like anyone having a tab behind me as they too will be going and i do not want to keep tab either.

I think it is not about the ages, but how a person can be dragged to the gambling game, whether it was because of invitation from their friends or because of curiosity. A teenager can attract gambling games because his friends invite him to play some gambling games, which can be a simple gambling game such as a poker game. Instead of playing normally, they are trying to use money as the winner reward. That is a form of gambling that people know.

But a child needs to stay away from anything that can be gambling because we do not know what the impact is to them. The biggest impact that can happen to them is an addiction that will become a nightmare if they can not control themselves. It is a job for the parents to always watch out for their child, but if their child grows up, they should still watch them so they do not get too deep in the gambling games.

Yes, it should focus on how parents communicate with their children, since the parents may be the source of the problem, and children may learn to gamble from them. They are often subjected to peer pressure, but this is insignificant if their parents are properly directing them and the children know how to respect them. Gambling is not for children; it will ruin their lives because it involves money since they can't value how important this in life to survive. As long as the children are unable to define how difficult life is, proper guidance from the community, such as school, home, and even social media, should be provided.

We should always protect our children from this because once they start gambling at a young age, they will learn a lifelong habit that could destroy their lives. Plus, it's a fact that children who gamble at an early age could develop a second problem: gambling addiction.
I know first hand how damaging this can be to the mind of a child and if you have ever been the victim of such, you would be as well. Parents, this means we have to be a part of the solution. We need to teach our children to be cognizant of their actions and to understand and accept responsibility for them.

When they are earning their own money so they wouldn't ask their parents for it,
And when they know how to handle it and how to control their own so they wouldn't be addicted to it.
We don't really need an age bracket they just need to be in a legal age and they earning the money that they are using on their vices.

Gambling on investments is different from gambling on casino. There are various laws regarding the age-limit for each individual to gamble which mostly is 18years old and above while there are casinos that won't allow individuals who are 16 years old below while some requires 21 years old above. These laws varies on different countries and the casino itself which we must follow and abide.

On the other hand, Investments is different thing as you risk involved are considered as a gamble due to the volatility of either the market or the asset that we are investing on. Just as Robert Kiyosaki said, where a friend of his traded on stock market at an early age isn't illegal as there aren't any laws regarding about age restriction on holding stocks.

Both has risk but the other is illegal when done at an early age while it isn't on the other one.

This is an era where people are free to search for and get what they want with the ease and speed of the internet world. Therefore, I am not sure that even if the government has strict rules regarding the age limit of a person allowed to gamble, they will definitely still do it on their own will and also the invitation of the people around them and no one will be able to control or stop them, except their awareness alone.

age is not so important, just has to have an adult mind...
There are also many people who are old but do not think like adults, they sell their valuables only for gambling and go into debt when they lose. this is the behavior of those who have not had mature thoughts.

Well, you have a point --we are in the world that has a good internet speed and I think most of all people now have internet connectivity on their houses since during pandemic and most of all young people are required to have the internet to continue their classes online. So, perhaps due to curiosity, they will perhaps involve in any gambling activity. There is no age bracket for a perfect gambler I think because everyone as long as they have internet connectivity and money they can gamble as they want. However, you can monitor your young children not to involve in this gambling activity or even online games that prone to addictive, you can put a restriction on your internet provider, but that is a different story here.

We're in a world of people prioritising decentralized functioning. What decentralisation have done to the community, it gives the control to us and lets us stay anonymous on need. When things are getting advanced to next-gen we should educate the young generation rather than restricting from gambling. However most of the countries have the age bracket of 18+ for gambling, but through online gambling these were easily overcome by the users through KYC free platforms.

Addiction on gambling compared to Addiction on computer games is somewhat different but still both are addiction which could really give out a bad impact into your children and this is

where parenting would be used up and as a parent and you are fully aware on what are possible things might happen ahead then you will surely needing to stop your kids while its still early.

Its true that we are already on a digital age where everything would really be connected through internet.We would get involved into things on a snap of finger or few strokes of hands.

When it comes to perfect age for gambling then it would be hard to determine because there are some who do get involved without even knowing on what it is.

It is very important not to allow your kids to gamble. This is because you can prevent the harm gambling can bring. These kinds of products are in reality dangerous to the people, if they engage in it you may be exposing them to social issues, debt and health-related problems and you don't want that to happen. Gambling is one of the most notorious activities that people are hooked to the point of being killed over it. That is why parents must watch their kids to make sure they don't get involved. So, just because your teenager is good in some aspects does not mean you can forget the safety of him or her.

Insane actions when a person got addicted to this activities, to the point that even they are already in mature age they still act like teens who didin't mine to lose everything and some of them also got a lots of debt because of gambling.
Any age might work as long as the person really knows how to handle this pressure inside, controlling your emotions and know how to stop when you already have a lots of funds that being wasted.

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Young adults always have a ways, it's true that better to educate them before it's too late, this kind of people are adventurous, allowing them to explore but keep them at sight to make sure that there's still guidance and control.

Most of those old one's who didn't mature enough in gambling where already addicted in gambling that they do gambling  without hesitation or thinking. It will be better if young people will still not do gambling to free them from idea of getting addicted to it in their early life that's why the guidance of the parents is needed really to avoid it from happening.

I guess the perfect age bracket for gambling is above 25 years old until senior citizen. Why? because they had a source of income that able for them to sustain their gambling habits. Because when we are talking of young people involved in gambling, that is risky to them at an early stage of age they will I guess commit a crime just to able to have money for their habits which are really bad.

I agree in most comments that gambling now is easy to access which is a very crucial thing to our young children that can't manage risk, guide them and manage them is the most important, the study is the most priority first.

Gambling is a game so its best reserved for those with time to game really, whichever age group that might be.   I even think some element of gambling can be educational, I studied probability as part of maths in school so its an ancient subject in that way.   But the main element alot of people dont have would be the time to play the games properly with proper consideration not just blind luck..

I believe that no age bracket can actually define that at what age are you going to get lucky exactly. So I'd advice people to wait for the legal age and then enter the gambling industry to play it safely and maturely when they'll be knowledgeable enough to understand about proper bankroll management and how not to lose everything even if it's affordable to lose.

There are countries that allow their children at the ripe age of 7 years old, but if I have a kid that age I will not allow him to play, gambling can corrupt the mind of a child if he is not ready to play and bet, the perfect age for me is 20 years old, the person can think clearly and analyze everything by the age of 20 he will be responsible to all his action good or bad.

I would probably match it with the legal age which is 18 to be fair with the kid and to give them the responsibility for their action. 7 years old gambling is pretty bad thing to be honest because as the quote above says which I too believe is true is that gambling corrupts the mind and those years should be formative which means that we have to shape them to do good habits and mindset and if we were to do the opposite then it will be a problem in his/her adulthood.

Age is a big factor with gambling, because below the age of 18 the earning capability will be low. This will make the young generation go for parents money, and when this goes on as addiction there'll be need for more money. When one cannot fulfill this, automatically the mind thinks of some other way to manage funds for gambling. This even lead people towards illegal activities.

In my country in such a situation after losing all the funds few people ended their life.

I think 19 years of age are responsible enough to handle gambling activities specially if the person is well open to Their love ones.

The only problem in gambling is if we are not telling our family and friends about our activities and hide betting , this will end up addiction and will cause us harm in the future.
So opening our games will help Us safe from becoming a desperate gambler.

Every country has its own rules and laws about gambling and I think that's the lowest age in the entire world where they're allowing their kids to gamble. Me too, I won't allow my kid to gamble at such young age and I don't want them to do what I've done like gambling until they're fully responsible with their own lives. I will not introduce them to gambling and this really depends on what kind of parent we are. I guess for some it's okay for them to be open to it.

This discussion is actually worthless because of a few reasons.

1- Different people mature at different ages I believe, there are young neighbors around me who are smarter than some of the uncles I have met in life so I don't know if there can be a set age when everyone matures. Someone aged 15 might be controlled enough to stop while some 35-40 age guy might tilt after losing some bets.

2- You cannot stop anyone from entering these crypto casinos as long as they have internet and some coins somehow. All these casinos don't even care who you are, all they need is your money and want to operate in a fair manner.

As long as you have money, I don't think there is a problem spending it the way you want. Yes, kids should not gamble but they shouldn't have crypto in the first place if they are kids. If even they have, you must know where they keep it and how they spend them. If they don't have crypto they can't play because almost all the fiat casinos ask for KYC before you even make a bet.

I think it is better to have some sort of specific rules like what we have now when it comes to gambling, we must understand that the brain of a person still in development has not matured yet, this is one of the reasons young people act so impulsively, so gambling which is an activity that can be so fun but at the same time difficult to exercise properly can be very dangerous for young people, so it is better to not let this decisions fall to the parents as there will be many people that under those circumstances will allow their children to gamble hindering their development.

Their family should know what they're doing since they will be asked where they spend their money. these things cannot be hidden from the other members of the family especially if they don't know how to earn that money by themselves. Same as they are earning it by themselves because in that way their family can advise them some legit advice about what they're doing.

its reserved for adults on countries where the age restriction is high but there are countries with a low age restriction but i believe this countries is excelent like on how people lived , they are well disciplined  . so thats it the perfect age for gambling will depend per country

this concern will only cover to those country with high age restriction but if your concern is mainly because of financial , why not teach your child to be smart financialy . no need to wait till they mature in all aspect because that will take too long .

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I can say for almost certain that regulatory efforts that try to restrict access to gambling almost always go to waste.

Some exposure to elements of gambling is going to be inevitable for a minor. Trying to control that exposure works to an extent, but beyond that it is really not that productive.

All the KYC in the world won't be able to stop a delinquent teenager. Regulators doing this is simply avoiding the root cause of financial illiteracy and a basic grounding in maths in the youth populations.

Minor's decision was based on how the environment around them is telling them. In some countries, gambling can be seen everywhere with some participation of minors.

If these minors were introduced to gambling at an early age and almost every day, gambling is just a normal routine operation in their life then just allow them to do it as stopping them might result in a much bigger problem. That's the common cases in those areas wherein gambling is part of their everyday life.

But for most of us here who are somehow in a region where gambling is regulated and minors are permitted from doing gambling, as these minors growing up, make sure to give them a personal talk about the risk of doing gambling and being responsible enough. Surely, they will understand it while they progress.

There are really difference into those people who do earn income by themselves or to those people who do fully rely with their parents in terms of financial.A particular person who get involved

in gambling and comes addicted but there are no other sources of funds he/she could possibly get and this is where possible crimes could be committed if he/she let himself do fall into that pit of addiction.

When it comes to desperation times or cant able to resist then that would really be a big problem.This doesnt talk about particular age because as long we are fully aware on how thing
works then that would be the perfect age or time but instances on getting addicted and some changes could most likely to happen.

What if that young age is matured enough to do gambling? Not causing any problem for themselves or to their family?

Gambling for me is open for all ages as long as young ones know how to do it responsibly. Just because they are minors, they can be considered as not ready.

But if gambling is prohibited for minors, then this age bracket should not be a topic.

I suppose their isn't really a specific age bracket we can consider because there are so many factors to bare in mind when gambling. Despite the advent of internet and social media, I think the aspect of having knowledge, money, and discipline to indulge in gambling still plays a huge challenge and responsibility for young people. If anything, it may bring out the best or the worst in a kid if not done right.

LMAO, Belated happy birthday, As you turned 4, I guess you need 3 more years before you get to gamble as one of the reply in this thread that there is a certain country that allows people to gamble as early as 7 years of age. So you need to wait furthermore

It's all true, but that is not how the law sees the situation. There isn't a simple and cheap way to measure who is mature or not to engage in gambling, so a minimum age is set to determine who is accountable for their own acts, presuming an individual on that age, psychologically and biologically, is fully aware of his actions and consequences, otherwise this person has a mental issue and then it's another story.
The correct would be if the family and school members tracked the psychological profile of the individual since the childhood and depending on the analyzes this person would be adviced to stay away from impulsive activities like gambling or not. But such approach seems too complex and expensive for the currently society we have.

Gambling, in general, is some sort of addiction in which all people struggle with. It is relatively hard to categorize on which age bracket is perfect for gambling as everybody has a problem with it no matter how old or young they are.

I do think that the limitation on gambling should be addressed and taken seriously. Just like any addiction, gambling poses a serious threat to the livelihood and welfare of a person and his family. If left untreated, this problem may result to the destruction of one's life which has proven to led to suicide rates.

Honestly it's hard to give a number on questions like this, Minors are definitely out of the questions because the law doesn't allow them by any means. Young age especially those who just got out in the age restrictions most likely has unstable minds compared to adults. Having an unstable mind could result in depression, addiction, and other bad effects they can get from playing gambling whatever the result is. For me there is no perfect age bracket for gambling, We have different personalities, characteristics, and other factors that can affect the method on how we play gambling, even on what age bracket it is.

The average online gambling site has an age limit of 18+ for its players. It can be assumed that anyone who is -18 years old is not completely out of control of his parent and so is not allowed to gamble. However, online gambling can't truly verify the age of the users of its site if they do not enforce KYC. In my opinion, there are still many -18 year old users who are addicted to gambling because they have missed their parents' observation. The digital era has provided an opportunity for underage children to gamble and I think that is common now.

A person's ability to gamble is not limited by age and it can be justified. But the maturity of the mindset will determine their character when gambling. Kids under 18 don't think much about big wins, they tend to gamble for fun and they can forget their gambling loss faster than adults in my opinion.

There is a reason why casinos and other gambling platforms have age restrictions to prevent young ones to gamble as we all know that gambling may cause problems not just in financial problem but also health problems due to excessive gambling. Most casinos have 18+ rules which only 18 years old and above can gamble. Even though some have under age of 18 did manage to gamble online casinos and even physical (outside casinos).

There are bad effects indeed mentaly and physically, this preventions that restrict minors to gamble has been used by the government. They are preventing young minds to get addicted and ruined their lives in it's early age.

We can limit though since online gambling sites are available and those young gamblers can easily fake out
their information or they can simply visit crypto related casino house to play anonymously..

Whatever age it takes, the responsibilities always rely to the gambler itself.

For me the best age for gambling is really the 30s. The 20s is not a good age for gambling. Because if you are young and you have tendencies that would make you do bad decisions that could be disastrous. The 30s at least you might have made some progress in self development that would you make much more sound decisions and therefore not easily affected by gambling consequences. I mean that the emotional maturity should be already achievable.

I personally think that children should never gamble no matter how much money they have. As a kid you are still in your formative stage and way more vulnerable to a possible gambling addiction than a adult who has already developed a solid character.
Of course you can't generalize it that easily because there are 16 year old teenagers out there who have way more discipline and self-control than the average adult and there are also adults of course who get addicted to gaming very easily and therefore betting money that they would desperately need for other things.
But in general i think it's a good thing that children are not allowed to gamble of course.

Guiding them on what gambling is all about and the right time to gamble is the only way we can do to teach them when to gamble and, without our guidance, our children will fall into many traps in gambling, gambling needs a lot of control and the children need good character before they can gamble, so they will not come up losing everything. 

I find it a bit wierd in my country that you are only allowed to enter a casinos above 18 years, but on funfairs you were allowed to play lotteries and other gambling as kid already. The only difference is that you win physical prices and not money, but it is still the same. It can be very addictive aswell. My first memory gambling on one of this fairs was that I want to have some specific army figures for which you needed a lot of points. So I basically spent all my money for the fair over the weekend on this lottery stand and didn't even get enough points in the end. I wish someone would have told me a bit about gambling at such an age so I could have saved my money for some of the rides instead.

What you are saying is absolutely true, we shouldn't give children the opportunity to try to play gambling. Because it will adversely affect children's
behavior, I have a neighbor of an 8 year old kid who often steals his parents money just to play gambling. This is a very scary thing for parents,
therefore parental supervision must be really strict. Because now it's very easy for children to access gambling sites. As you said in general, children
are more easily addicted to playing gambling. Always supervise when children use the internet and also investigate children's activities when playing
outside the home. Because sometimes children, due to the influence of a bad environment, can get to know gambling outside the home.

The fact is that children gamble anyway, if you see a bunch of kids playing with themselves you'd recognize gambling patterns in some of their games. I usually hear the phrase "I bet.." in their vamped discussions: I bet you can't jump from a to b, I bet you are not faster than me etc.
And then we ask why we become gamblers.

It's alright to gamble as that's a proof that we are willing to take risk, gambling is only bad if we just loss control and we can't control ourselves. Even when I was a kid I gamble already, but I learn to control and I don't gamble more than what I can afford to lose, also, I stay discipline so I did not make stupid things like stealing just to gamble.

Yeah , Most of Children's Game are seemingly gambling.

In Card game , they tend to bet and collect win .

Same as In marble game when they are betting with each other to win.

So basically . Kids are gambling though the bets are not literally Money yet they are betting against Each others.

I goes with the same age bracket as what you have mate because honestly speaking the 20s age is the age where the youth are figuring out their future, seeking job and maybe it should the time to focus on their goals and i guess they haven't yet enough money to use or spend in gambling. And also the emotional aspect that gambling may bring was such a thing that a 20s age people may hard to handle with.

No age is good. When you are young you can win a lot, but when you do, you get the GOD syndrome. You think that you will always win, but the truth is that at the wrong moment you put too much at stake and you lose everything. Once an old man starts playing, he will never stop.

We can say about the ages for people who play gambling, even for teenagers. But I guess there is no perfect age bracket for playing gambling because they can play gambling at any age, especially the ease of playing gambling from the internet and using fiat money or crypto. With the internet available in many countries, people can play gambling from any place, including their mobile phones so they do not need to go to the offline casino. The importance is not about their ages, but how we can control ourselves, so we do not lose too much money.

I agree to a certain point, however financial illiteracy is supported by governments all around the world, taking into account that people are going to have to work for the majority of their lives and in some cases until they die then learning how to manage their money should be a priority right up there with learning how to read and yet this is not the case, which means governments like the current status quo as more spending and credits are good for the economy even if they are not good for the individual taking those decisions.

Gambling is specifically made for adults between the range of twenty (20) years upwards, because from my perspective gambling involves already made money which anyone that's not does not have another source of generating income are not suppose to involves in a such activities of gambling because of profit and loss involves, so for instance young adults between the range of ten to eighteen (10-18) years are not suppose to partake in  gambling because it can lead them to steal another person finance when the money is not available and if they are addicted to it, most especially when lose is bigger than their profit.

This is depending on what country you are living, some countries allowed people to gamble even at age below 20 years old.
Personally, I learn gambling when I was a kid, so this does not apply to me.


That's the principle, but let's say you are a student, you are getting money from your parents, you can still gamble because you have the money, no one can stop anyone from gambling, we take our own risk, what's important is that we are just responsible in gambling and we have to be have matured mind to be able to do that.

Age does not matter anymore.

Kids nowadays can earn money from various sources and can also gamble online without going through KYC. Offline it is not that easy but I have seen a few friends of mine in my younger days using the pocket money to gamble in offline illegal gambling sources. Age is just a number, if you are a minor you still can gamble if you know where to go.

I think it is more related to the ambient you are raised in.I learned gambling at a younger age because for my good or bad luck I was born at a neighborhood full of gamblers.Of course age plays a role which the more you age in theory the more control you should have.For me the perfect age to gamble is over 25 years old.

I don't think there is any "perfect" age for gambling. As long as you are not a child or an underaged person who is gambling, then everything should be fine. I don't think children are capable of understanding how gambling works, hence they should never gamble. But sadly, there are those video games where they have those loot boxes and mystery boxes where they get "random" cool stuffs from it. Those are like gambling and kids are getting addicted to it. I remember reading an article few days ago where a kid spent like 10 grands from his moms credit card without her consent.
You can gamble whenever you want as long as you are not addicted and an adult who can think straight without any issue. You can gamble when you can afford. The only time you can't gamble is when you "shouldn't".

In what form kids will generate money to gamble, its bad if a kids that's not up to twenty years to gamble, and when will it stop? see everything have stages, encouraging kids of ten years to gamble, from my perspective is totally prohibited because the kid does not have a source of revenue even though it has I don't think gambling is the right place to channel it, OK if a kid gamble with $2000 today and lose and tomorrow the same kid gamble with $1500 and lose and it happened to be your child, what Will be your advice as Father or mother?
So it's obvious that gambling is made for people that have reserved money, but i understand that you are considering the aspect's of profit but consider lose aspect of it. Am a gambler I know how I feel if I lose bet.

Its very wrong should kids be involved in gambling. Lets not view it as just a way of earning or losing some money. Of  course its true that, people can still gamble without going through the regular KYC but that doesn't make it right. Most sites are used to pointing out the fact that, some certain contents or activities are not open to persons under certain age and yet, they still accept to be above age limit and participate otherwise. That leverage doesn't make it right, its a bridge of the system and unacceptable.

Gambling has a way of playing with your emotions and if you aren't matured enough to handle it, you might loose it and end up being a nuisance to society. So, I think gambling should be more for matured minds, it doesn't center on an age bracket but, should be from an age capable of reasoning which starts at 18years of age often.

if that's really how serious the problem for kids, then the government had already create a law to seriously punish establishment for allowing kids to gamble, or the anonymous gambling would have not exist since it's easy for the kids to gamble as long as they have knowledge in crypto.

Thing is, it's not really a serious problem or a threat, even kids, they also know how to decided and besides they have their parents that can guide them or monitor what they are doing.

It is pathetic that most gambling sites don't request for a mandatory KYC thus gave room for teenagers to engage in all sorts of gambling at their tender age, consequently this will lead to their lack of concentration in their studies which has a tendency of jeopardizing their studies and future
In my country I always feel sad seeing high school students  of various age limit between 14  to 18 years old gambling and betting unprovoked and challenged by their parents,  once addicted with it then its going to be difficult to dissuade from engaging in gambling.

Wikipedia, eh, there's a comment in this thread that says, there's a country who allows as early as 7 years of age to gamble. Therefore, his statement is valid  ;)

The environment in we living can impact our children or someone to become good or bad. But if we have a strong mind not to get drag into the bad things, we can survive and prevent the bad thing that will tempt us to follow. I think out there, many children below 18 years old playing gambling because of surviving from the hardest world. But people can play gambling at any ages, but they need to make sure to have control over anything that can happen later.

Even if the casino applies KYC, teenagers can use the other identity from the adult people in their family to still play gambling without any prohibition. The important thing here is how they can protect themselves not to playing gambling if they can not control themselves. But we know teenagers have a big curiosity and have a big passion for the new thing and they will do many things that can fill their passion. That can make them have a gambling addiction and if they do not realize the risk, they can become a heavy addicted person in gambling.

I think elders are definitely a bit better than everyone else, it is not the main demographic because they are older and not really after so much money, but the amount of bets they do could be higher than any other even if the amount of money they wager may not be the biggest. This is what I imagine could be the case but I can't really say that I can guarantee something like that, which is why I am just saying I am predicting something like this and not saying that is the right answer.

If we could end up with something that would give us the data for it, we could actually see it, and I am sure there are many casinos that have these data and that could be very helpful for us to understand who gambles the most but without getting those things we are not going to have anything that would be helpful for us at all and we will only make guesses but with a data showing it we could get more help.

The harm is much that the world should arise with an age bracket for gambling and not this un-stabilize age bracket we have. Image some countries allowing teenagers without any sources of revenue to gamble, where do we think they will definitely find the funds for this act if not stealing?, the government always look away from what benefit them than putting into serious consideration the potential harm such actions could lead to in the country. In my dear country this age bracket is doing more harm than good, what do you imagine a teenager do after loss all his money - he or she will tend to take hard drugs to stabilize. 

From the statement of one of the gambling sites that I have quoted, I can conclude that anyone aged 18+ can use the site's service even if they do not get permission from their parent. I think age restriction is one of the ways the gambling industry prevent children from engaging in gambling despite the fact that it is not completely preventable. Almost all gambling site that I registered have an age limit for each player, although sometime the site fail to detect it because there is no KYC verification. The gambling environment and legality of a country will greatly affect the growth rate for gambler, the figure may be lower in a country where gambling is prohibited.

Government handling is one of the things which are really needed to make things in order.They are really the ones who would really  make things in order and if making out some decisions then they are already aware on what would be the things that could possibly happen ahead if they do let the youth do play gambling.This is actually a matter of self-awareness on no specific age because you can make out decision for yourselves
on whats good and whats bad and this isnt something that government could able to control on. Age bracket is just really being imposed on gambling platforms or places but not totally able to
block on peoples motives.

tbh, I strongly advise to who ever or has the power to set a rules and regulation that not only they will based on the age but as well as the capability of the individual to pay. Per, observation as long your 18 or you look like adult they let you play. But I would say 25 y/o and above I guess by that time you are earning your own money without asking for your parents or any relatives for monetary assistance.

I'd say gambling 18-21 is a good minimum age limit for preventing gamblers getting hooked too young. Underdeveloped minds are very susceptible to getting hooked on addictive behaviors and have less knowledge of the traps they are falling in. People of that age are much more likely to chase losses and have a poor understanding of the mathematical odds working against them in many situations. It should also be much more important for schools to teach proper financial education (mortgages, debt, credit cards, compound interest,etc.), rather than just try to teach kids about basic arithmetic. There is nothing wrong with gambling if it is done for fun and entertainment, however trying to make money consistently is often impossible in most casino games.

That should be the right age that allows to play and gamble not just 18 above. And another, if you don't have a source of income you will not let in on that gambling house gamble, in this way, we will lessen those gamblers that did not have work but they keep gamble and possible there could be a reduction of gambling addicts.

As I heard, the right age bracket for the perfect in gambling is in the age of senior citizen, because they have a monthly allowance plus they don't have work that makes their life busy and also they don't get bored.

It is difficult to say when to start gambling.
The circumstances in many cryptocasinos make it easy for people who are not yet of age to play there.

It's a dichotomy because on the one hand you can appreciate it when there are casinos where you can play anonymously without revealing your whole identity.

The downside, however, is that it's hard to check if the player is old enough to gamble at all.

Has anyone thought about if Gambling should be only for adults (range @ the minimum of 35)?  Will it be good for the economy as well as to every individual and family? I'm 26 and started Gambling with Poker at the age of 16 😅
So basically if you ask me this,I'd rather have this option only for adults also only for money LOL.

Well, in my opinion here, age does not matter at all --there is no perfect age bracket and you can gamble as long as you are at the right age and you can afford a budget for gambling, that would definitely have fun. I realized this when I am at the right age and above 18 but I don't have enough money to gamble and my monthly income is enough for my family as a budget for the whole month and there is no extra amount for gambling. We should always secure first the budget money of our family before we gamble. So the age bracket also depends on the player's pocket.

I think it is unacceptable to allow a child to gamble. Obviously, younger people are more susceptible to addiction. How to prevent it?
Well, the first thing to consider is that children take many things from their parents and environment. So a good idea would be to ensure that the child lives in a proper atmosphere and isn't surrounded by gamblers. Another thing, if the child already started gambling and spends his/her allowance on this the solution is quite simple - cut off the allowance and take control over the money. And, probably, take the child to shrink to help him/her cope with this problem.
Defining the age at which someone is allowed to gamble is a much harder thing, on the other hand. I think ideally the restriction must be based on emotional stability, psychiatric record, possible predispositions, and weaknesses rather than on age. Because, like you said, different people become mature at different ages. But I can't imagine how could these restrictions and emotional state assessment be actually implemented.

Welp, that greatly depends on the parenting you received. Even the "best parenting" can still get you into some form of gambling. Carnival games for example, that offers rewards like stuffed toys and money in exchange for your dollars or nickels, arcade games that involves you spending money for tickets which you can then exchange for rewards, the list goes on. So if you'll ask me, I'd say 20-21 years old is the legal and the best age, but uncontrolled and barely legal gambling like the ones I stated above.

The government can make regulations for people below 25 years old, but we know that they can easily visit any online gambling site and play anytime they want. That can increase the number of people who gamble in one country, especially if they can access the internet easily. 25 years old will be good for them to gamble, especially if they have an income and not asking money from their parents. They can manage their own money without a problem, so I think they will not spend too much money if they gamble.

I would not show him any type of gambling untili I think he is ready to be a man himself. I think 18 is the age one can gamble, but of course there are simple games that teens play that is also a form of gambling in some sort. But the card games, poker, and all others, should only happen around the time he is of legal age. As a father of course I will not show him these games until he is ready to learn and be able to understand the responsibility that one has to endure because of gambling.

I'm one of those people who started gambling on a young age without knowing that I do such thing. At a young age me, together with my friends are playing games in which there are stakes like marbles... I consider it as early gambling nowadays, there are times that some money are being staked when we are playing, but it's rare. It did not affected me negatively. So I think it's fine to experience it by kids, however for me the perfect age when you take gambling seriously is when the time you're disciplined enough to manage your money.

That should be what the governments or these gambling platforms should lay more emphasis on becasue those without the earnings shouldn't be allow to gamble and if they should it must be question. There are those who don't earn anything in their life but will like to always visit the gambling centers to carryout criminal acts, IMO, those with the means should be open for gambling platforms only.

No, kids should stay away from gambling, and a person should only take the experience of gambling while he/she is mature enough in mentally. Cause youngsters may take wrong steps by being curious and loss valuable money. A person should start gambling at the age while he realize the importance and the real value of money. Your case was different and there wasn't any big risk involved.

I have to agree with this. Because kids or teens also are not emotionally stable when it comes to large amount of losses. Remember way back in 2016, when a teenager killed himself because he lost a lot of money? They thought, that is the end of their life. I guess, this is also true to some adults who incurred heavy debts owed to gambling, and they don't know how to pay their debts. But with kids, the impact is much more dangerous as they don't know how to handle problems like this. It is like the endgame for them.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1325343/teenager-18-killed-himself-after-losing-more-than-5000-on-internet-betting-sites/

Until that kids grow up, they should not know how to gamble and give them time to enjoy their ages by playing many games and having fun without using gamble. The youngsters now become smart and capable of using a smartphone easily, and they can browse many websites, including gambling websites. Maybe the parents need to stay away from their children from mobile phones and ask them to play in real activity outdoors to distract their minds and become addicted to the mobile phones.

That's a the concept of someone that upload it to Wikipedia, which we all know that the information Google give to us is written by somebody, so using environmental knowledge as a  human to narrate the age bracket someone suppose to reach before partaking into world gambling, it suppose to be early twenty as I stated before, emphasising on seven years kid to join gambling, bro am against because is not encouraging from my views.

Actually it's very difficult because how can children play outdoor activities if there's no one can interact to? I mean, most of the children are now using smartphones to be entertained because most of the child stuffs like tv shows and such are now on YouTube. Parents will probably choose the easiest way to entertain their children is through smartphones and we can't blame if it ends up badly. Children need interaction with other children, as you can see in the show cocomelon, there are interaction and kids want those kinds of stuff. So they can't really prohibit these things nowadays because it's already part of the new-gen and the only thing the parents should do is proper guidance and words of wisdom to enlighten the children on how things work to avoid getting involved in such gambling platforms.

Due to this hi-tech era then probabilities of these young minds to get involved with gambling is high likely to happen because of exposure and on the ease when it comes to accessibility.
Parenting does really have a great role on raising up your children on a right way even though it might not be perfect or can be check out from time to time but making them
aware on what are the implications of dealing with gambling on young mind could really affect and once they would be aware then they are at least
having the idea once they do encounter it which means even if youre arent watching then they do know about it.

Easy to say but sometimes it's not the actual situation in reality. Different families live in different environments so there will be a time that parents can't follow what their kids are doing. There are families that live in a place where gambling is just around the corner so how come they can't prevent their kids to do gambling.

I would say, they just have to trust their kids approach towards gambling. If these parents badly want to educate their kids, then they can do some discussions, either during lunch, dinner or include it in their normal conversation. Now up to their children if they will obey or follow their parents.

I still believe this job is solely for the parent; it's the parents job to monitor what their child(ren) do on the day he Internet.
The government and most gambling companies do indicate that age range vividly on their site, but kids don't pay attention to this things.

If parents can reduce giving their kids mobile device at tender age and encourage them to find true happiness in offline activities.

The gambler should be an adult at least to gamble as it will be legal for them to do that. If we talk about age bracket, I think it should be between 18-60 as when it is about kids, we as parents should never let them involve themselves in these kind of activities.

Involvement of someone regardless of its age will vary on how someone would able to find a way for them to get involved with gambling.People should really be

on the right knowledge and just like what others said that parenting will really be a big thing should really be focused on because if children would be
exposed on gambling then the will really be on that possible problem with addiction.

We cant guard or observe them 100% but we should do our best as we can as a parent.

When we talk about maturity with the involvement of gambling, I think it can provide awareness to the youth. There's  freedom to choose as age comes to legality as stated by the law. On our local places where gambling is rampantly happening, it's only strict on every range of age but on a registered gambling establishment.
Sad to say, those small time gambling or casual past time gambling bets was played by underaged young people.
How much more with online betting which easily be accessed through internet, without any guidance from parents.

What will the children learn from parents who gamble themselves?  :-\
Parental control can only stop children from going the wrong way till parents are with their children watching them all the time but once their children are out for schools or colleges, their parents can't know what their children are doing. They may also learn about gambling from their friends and do it occasionally at first, then very frequently and become addicted to it.

We know that is possible but we need to question ourselves is this right? And I do not think so, most kids are not mature enough at such a young age to take responsible decisions when it comes to their money, to begin with we need to answer ourselves if they even have money that is truly theirs, after all the majority of kids that have some money do so because their parents gave them that money and since it is doubtful their parents gave them that money to explicit gamble then they do not even fulfil the minimum requirements to gamble as the money they could use for it is not even theirs.

If the children can not play outdoor with their friends, we can join with our children and I am sure that will attract the attention of the other children and of course, their parents will also attract them to that. We should teach them that there is a time when they use their smartphone or watching television, but there is time for them to socialize with other people to balance their life when they grow up.

Actually, I feel pity if I watch children just focus on their smartphones and ignore people around them without communicate or talking about anything. That will not be good for their psychology when they grow up because that can make them can not open-minded to accept other people. The children need interaction with their friends and other people to feel that they are not alone and have another shoulder to tell their feeling. Children need guidance from their parents, so they do not feel alone and lost in their future.

I think that is what the parents' approach is due to their children and no matter if the situation is different from the past, the parents need to take care of their children. If the parents are not busy with themselves and still care for their children, their children will not go wrong. The parents and their children's communication is the important thing that the parents need to do because now, many parents seem to forget about that and only give money to their children.

It really depends on the kind of education that you receive, I remember that my father taught me about gambling games at an early age, he did it not because he wanted me to gamble but it was a lesson on probabilities, that is how I learned very early on that gambling as a way to make money was simply not going to happen for almost anyone because the probabilities are on the long term against you.

You have a really progressive parents then, I mean if I was to ask my parents about that thing, I would probably get myself beaten to a pulp. To me though, I would say that gambling should be allowed on the age where the individual can decide for themselves and have the ability to accept responsibility, it will be difficult to determine by age since people mature differently, maybe sticking to 18 will be enough.

In any country it seems that no parent wants their child to become addicted to gambling, then the parents will be tough if they find their child
gambling. I am like you have parents who cannot be discussed with all things related to gambling, if until I dare to ask about gambling. I will have
the same fate as you, so I can't discuss all things about gambling with my parents. This is a lesson for all of us that being a parent should not be
a distance from their child. It means being a good parent, you have to explain everything to your child, including the game of gambling. So that
our children do not get this information from other people, it may be that the information provided by others is misleading.

Yes, parents need to educate their children regard any subject that may come up instead of punishing them just for being curious. It's part of human being to ask questions and have interest for the unknown, especially children, and it's parents' duty to clear these doubts in order to teach how to deal with these questions in the right way. The lack of teaching by parents can lead the child to addiction, because as you said, if he can't find answers for his questions at home he is going to search for it through another people and there lies the real danger.

Also worth adding that whenever I try to add an opinion of mine to the table, I get easily lambasted sith words that shame .e and they also bring up that I owe them that I am alive and in my mind whenever they say that, I wish that they did because I don't want to be their insurance policy when I start to make a lot of money.

Would you please stop being a Fool and stupid? is there any Parent that will want His Children Addicted in anything ? of course all parents will never allow their child to become addict , But it is the Child decision to break His Parents rules.

When you grow old and become a parents also, you will UInderstand what are you talking right now.
another stupidity , Not all parents know about what gambling is all about because many of them are not gambler at all so how can you explain things that you don't understand?
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do it when you become parent.

Well, it's quite a well-known fact(maybe? Don't have any source tbh, but it is more effective than carrot and stick imo) that violence is by far the easiest way to discipline someone, especially children. Some parents just look at the short term effects of physical discipline hence they don't really look at the long-term effects of what their actions would result in (or they're just that much of a bastards who don't care about their children).

Well imho, I'd suppose the parents just want to avoid such discussions to avoid influencing you negatively. Their methods may not be the best, but I think they want the best. Not that I can say it for myself, you have your own opinion tbh so might want to try to confront them instead of bearing it all to yourself.

I disagree.

It's not about the education you received, it's about your life perspective in such an early age. Let me explain it further. My father was a gambling addict as well, and whenever he came home, he'll beat me for no reason at all. So that's when I wonder why did he such things to me when I'm just an innocent child? that's when I realized that instead of getting back on him by doing the same thing that he does, like playing gambling so that if he sees me he would be pissed of and eventually he will feel the same thing when he was beating me for no reason.

But I didn't do that, instead I promise myself that I would be better, that I would not grow up like him. That tragedy that happened to me made me mature in a very young age. Therefore in my opinion, it is all about on your decision.

Education, perspective or decisions are the basic things that make anyone have their own views about gambling. So, whatever the reason, I think there is nothing wrong because we are sure to find choices and different views and that is formed from the education of each individual. But about what age group is suitable for gambling, I guess it depends on how prepared they are to take the burden or the risks involved, because basically someone who starts gambling will definitely start with trial and error or just having fun. There is no definite age range, because, consciously or not, gambling is definitely done by most people from an early age.

Education, perspective in life, and your status in life while you were young, these are the aspects that may enhance yourself on how do you look life. I am not a total gambler, nor being so engage in gambling but what i could only say about these matter was, even your father teaches you at early age, educate you about gambling it is you who would make a choice in your life. It may seem that engaging in gambling should have a bracket for perfect age and yes this might be tackled because gambling wasn't just gambling, it is more than that and the worst about it was the failure that might encounter which is inevitable that a matured person should handle.

I think most of the common education of the previous generation is often teaching gambling since we were very young, sometimes our parents don't want to direct us to make money, they just thought it was a fun game for the kids but unfortunately, the happy mindset weakens as we mature with the financial pressures, gambling as a solution of choice when we have no other way. Maybe such classical education should be erased in our own time, adulthood automatically teaches them about gambling, adopting too early only increases the risk of an addict.

Education alone will not help because our education system is not that good which will be making us to be aware of efficient money handling things. I mean regardless of education level, how effectively we are handling funds and emotions must be more important factors to decide on what age gambling should be allowed. So basically after 30 years of old, people here are getting some awareness against money management.

In my opinion also (based on my efficient money handling capability), only after 30 years people should be allowed to gamble in my country so that they could effectively manage funds and all other required things to keep gambling only for entertainment purpose.

Some has supported education as a means to make people right for anything, because it gives them responsibility and they do accordingly without failing out of emotions. Some disagree that education alone cant make anything good with gambling. In my understanding education is a must and that is the proper channel through which one can be successful. It can be of anything and everything including gambling.

Just think of being into educated gamble and a random choice. If lucky you might get a big win, but if you're an educated gambler you'll have a preplan that can be executed if your prediction goes wrong.

Will be definitely varying on someone on how he would be handling out himself into those kind of situations where you own will will tell you on what you should gonna do

and since you do have your knowledge and awareness of your own then you can easily spot out if its good or bad.Actions will vary on how you do look at on a certain thing.

If you do treat it as part of leisure time then its just good but be sure that you wont really be making yourself get addicted.Chances to happen is still on 50% because the

more you engage with it the more probability of getting addicted.

Above 30 imo. People that are younger than 30 will likely to wager more than they could afford to lose (unless they are wise) and that will ruin their savings. With age people tend to gain wisdom and experience and that's when people realize they shouldn't go all-in. Also older people usually have more throw away money around. Meaning, that they can afford to lose a lot more than the youngsters. Perfect audience for the casinos.

I think that gambling is best of all fit to old people.
They have enough free time, they have some savings which they can lose to casino  :D and of course - their life is near it's end, so they in fact doesn't exchange gambling for something more important (career, sport and so on). And of course, the opposite situation with children, with gambling they just throwing their time in the hole.

With the way you put this, I feel pity for the aged people and self pity for myself too because, I too would be old someday except for the unfortunate of us that might get to die early. But, there is a truth about what you just said sadly. It feels awkward but true. The elderly have nothing to really look out for unlike the young adults that are busy thinking of there families and future. Lots of plannings and allocation of funds. This is what old age might help you escape especially when you had grown up kids to look after you. You can have some fun times at the table and properly some heart attacks too.

This is sad, but this is real life. Old people have much more free time and much less what to do. So gambling can be their entertainment with no problem of it. Even if they need to watch for their grandchildren of something like that. And yeah, in many offline casinos many of visitors is old people (after 60 years old)

In fact some parents find it effective with physical violence that will make children become disciplined. Even though sometimes this will only
traumatize children to discuss with their parents. All parents must have different methods of educating their children, whatever it is they only
want the best for their children. If I were a parent, I would prefer non-violent methods, because I think everything can be resolved without
physical violence. Even if we want to make children don't want to repeat their mistakes, it can be a little harsh by punishing them for not
watching TV or playing games. There are actually many ways to educate children to be disciplined without having to commit physical violence.

^ Probably but let me explain why young adults also fit into this.
In my own, the best bracket for gambling are young adults. These are the set of people who has a lot of dreams and wants to achieve in a way of making shortcuts. They are very impulsive and have more to lose since most of them are not yet responsible (some still live with their parents). In short word, they still afford to lose and hope to win. Money for them is sets of credits to play some stuff. And of course! The golden thing, “Legal”.
Kid gamble is somehow unacceptable, not to be tolerated and unfair. Kids do not know how things work yet, their money is from their parents as well. So letting kids go and play gambling is like ruining their families financially. Never ever decide to do it.

Why it's necessary to touch the financial matter, gambling does not really take all your finances if you are discipline with it, a kid that is gambling and their parents know it is better than parents not knowing their kids are gambling. At least they can guide their kids on the right way to gamble,.. I know in some countries is bad but there are some countries who tolerate this and I think it's not really a big problem at all since gambling is already part of our daily lives.

I guess it means prone to addiction and it will never stop from gambling until all funds and poverty will lose.

As mentioned above, I couldn’t agree more that young adults are the best brackets that produce fortune to gambling platforms. I can attest as one of them (within the same bracket) as I personally have been identified as impulsive before and I will admit it.

The bad thing about being a young adult is that you will always think that there’s always away and there is a lot of options. You will be flooded by things that will make you careless. But when bad luck hits you, you’re dead.

Teenagers can also be considered if they wish. Like this isn’t new at all. There’s a lot of teens gambling on informal gambling platforms. They also breach the requirements by using someone’s identity. Well, that’s life right?

^Age is a lazy metric to measure people's knowledge about gambling. It's only a legal age that says you are now responsible for your action. The perfect gambling age (for casinos), of course, as soon as it's legal. But for the betterment of society, it should go deeper than just age. For example, you need to test your gambling knowledge, get the license, and show the license if you want to enter a casino.

Young adults seem more prone because they haven't got responsibilities yet. It's similar to single, young execs. But the latter already has job responsibility (quite busy). That said, any age bracket can have gambling problems, but the older you are, you got much more to do than just playing games.

That is the point of the question being held, what is the perfect age for gambling, looking at the lesser evils for the problems. As you said, no matter what age bracket, there will be a problem, but we are looking for right now is the age bracket with less problems and less issues in regards to gambling.

You said that young adults haven't got responsibilities yet, which I approve so they are probably not the best age for gambling, so I guess that beyond being young adult, where there is already responsibilities, yet they're still very eager and somehow younng.

Such people mostly lost everything and also doing impulsive things (like robbering for needed amount of money to gamble). Yeah, if you cold-hearted (like me) in terms of gambling and can be master of oneself you can gamble. But as i said before, you will just spent your time for nothing.

Crypto now is good example: Rather than losing money in slots, you can invest in some lowcap coin and with a big probability get in return like x5-10. This is what I'm talking about.

I have never thought about it but I think you may have a point, however when it comes to the right age for people to gamble most countries accept this to be the moment you are thought to reach adulthood, but as we know people have different maturity rates,  I have met persons that were 15 years old which were very mature and I have met people that were 35 years old that were very immature so age alone is not a perfect metric but it is the best that we have at the moment.

My father never teach me about probabilities at my early age because I'm the one who discovered about it and at an early age, I found out that it's really hard to win in gambling especially if you'll take it as your way to earn some profit. The only thing my father said to me is to value money because it's really hard to earn money and yes, I understand all of that so I'm away from gambling and just focusing on other recreational activities. So I guess, I'm pretty lucky to have him because he taught me more about money even though he doesn't know about the probabilities and the mathematical explanation on gambling. 

Obviously you must be an adult & of legal age in your country. Other than that age doesn’t really matter, you must gamble responsibly & be of legal ate. That’s about it really in my opinion.

I regard gambling as entertainment, therefore, I think that mature age is optimal for this activity. If you are young, then, firstly, you have much more cheaper ways to tickle your nerves, and secondly, gambling is dangerous because it can cause addiction, so it is better to avoid it when you are young.

I have the same thoughts as you, it is better to gamble only for entertainment and do not make gambling a source of income. Young people
are more at risk of becoming gambling addiction than the mature age, because young people cannot control their unstable emotions. Therefore,
usually every country has its own rules at what age it is permissible to play gambling,  it is in order to prevent young people from becoming
addicted to gambling. Because it is better if gambling at a young age is avoided first for the good of the child himself.

Even you are already old and engage with gambling, you do still have the same odds on getting addicted.It does matter on how someone would handle out the risk
and been aware on how he'd been doing.

Its non deniable that  young minds cant able to handle up themselves and due to curiosity you would really be testing out things neither those are bad or not.

Everything which you do dealt up too much will always have some negative effects.Gambling isnt bad but when you do play too much or spend up much
and thats where problem begins.

If any hobby (in this case, gambling) does not harm you financially, then any degree of involvement in it, including fanaticism, is normal. Someone spends all their time on computer games, someone on table tennis - if they live happily at the same time, this is normal. And the older I get, the more I believe that any activity that tickles your nerves and brings back the taste for life is good  :)

Gambling at a very young age is very bad and it's never accepted by every society at large. In my country, before you think of gambling you must be above 18years. Anything less than the age is a big No and it won't be allowed.
How dare a kid to partake in gambling when his elders are there already. He dare not to avoid shouting or beating upon

There's a country that has a very young age for giving consent to their children to be open in gambling. In Malawi, this article[1], says that age 5 and above are considered legal to gamble.

[1] https://www.bestonlinecasino.com/blog/gambling-age-around-the-world.html

It does not matter if the hobby is in gambling while our finances are still safe so for me it is appropriate, meaning that we can still overcome addictions even though we often play as a hobby.
For now, after the pandemic 1 year, we have been at home often, of course, our daily lives are definitely in front of the computer to spend time, it is not impossible in the future they can also play gambling but not often but can be used as fun when finances are normal .

When dealing with gambling on active manner then it can be called addiction or shall we say can be considered as a hobby and as been said that as long we arent
hurting our finances then it can be still considered good or does signify that you are really much aware on what you doing.Age bracket wont really that matter
but the best age for this one is on the time you are fully matured on understanding everything not only limited to gambling but on other things as well.

Depends how you view perfect because health wise its not best to have teenagers gambling but obviously gambling is one way business wants to target the disposable revenue of young adults.    Even the plain banking industry tries to target demographics they think will grow as a sector which definitely means extending credit and other services as soon as possible.
  Ideally people should be 21 when gambling and fully aware its a leisure activity that doesn't mean riches occur despite wins its an item to spend on not expect to be profitable.   Realistically people dont ever gamble rationally entirely but they should be given the chance to consider it properly.

We ever discussed it, mate. Trust me, it is a very bad regulation to allow children at age 5 to play gambling. They still don't know what they are playing, they think it is a fun game only. But if it continues, they can be addicted to the game. Finally, they will be gambling addicts at a very young age. This shouldn't be followed by other countries.

Mate, your country got it all wrong here. Gambling age from 5? There’s a saying that goes like this "what you’ll become as an adult is a reflection in your youthful life". There are legal gambling ages and psychologists won’t recommend age 5 as a good gambling age. Sometimes Teenagers don’t always think about long-term consequences, and they sometimes want to do things that put their lives  and wellbeing at risk.

I can't even take this seriously. Do they also offer instructions for the 5 year old kids on how to sign up and get ready to gamble? :D Credit cards also no problem at age 5? Just call your bank and order the Amex!

This is possible if the authority doesn't mind about it and they will make it looks like it's something in their culture or customs that only exist in their country but the truth it's not. They took advantage of the current situation like for example in some of the villages in our country a long time ago when the festival came, they allowed such kind of act to happen where minors can place a bet without any guardian looking at them and this became normal even after the said festival. Thankfully they've stopped it because it doesn't make sense at all anyway. there's no such thing where those young minds will be allowed to play like that.

No, I guess that is not wrong because I think in some countries, children caught gamble with their friends from small things with money involved. Yes, that is illegal to that children but that will not for them as they can gamble in a secret place without adult people knows where that place. Teenagers can not think much about the risk of gambling because they think that playing gambling with their friends is one thing that they can have fun with. They can use their time to gather with their friends and start gamble. That is the parent's job always to guard their children and always monitor what their child does.

You got life lessons and lessons about money which are incredibly valuable, while that is supposed to be one of the roles that parents need to take so you don't make the same mistakes that they did many parents today forget about those responsibilities and it is up to the kids to try to find out by themselves how to improve their lives, this is why we are seeing an increase in the amount of kids that gamble, which is something that should not have happened if their parents gave them those life lessons.

I think it depends upon the environment/upbringing of the person and his tenacity to play around with a highly speculative game. I've known some kids here in our country (Philippines) as young as 12-13 years old to gamble against adults, especially those who were born in the slum areas. They are usually children of gamblers as well, and they learn at an early age how to play against the psychology of an adult in a game in order to earn a bit of cash.

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Now I know who Gives Merit to that Shitpost , Have you read the Malawi rules? does that gambling rules applied for Online betting only? Watta heck ..

Well, that's illegal of course, and that's not a perfect age bracket for someone to gamble. For sure these kids are doing illegal stuff as well like stealing money from their parents or worse from another person.
I have seen children like these as well, and they are stubborn as hell. The least you can do is to report this to the authorities before anything worse will happen.

We might think it’s way too early to think about children and gambling. Nevertheless the legal age for gambling on the pokies or other gambling joints is 18 years. Early exposure to gambling at a very teenage age stage up some many problems, and these children might be at greater risk of developing even bigger gambling problems if he does a lot of gambling or has a big win early in life and maybe has a positive attitude towards gambling – for example, he thinks that winning a big lottery jackpot is common, or that his peers will think he’s cool if he gambles.

I disagree.

The mature age is the right age for someone to engage in gambling to know his responsibility and risk, because if a kid or a teenage would gamble, he'll be just to carefree to gamble all of the money he has and the money or his parents that he could steal if he doesn't have any money left on his pocket, worst case scenario is that he would steal money on other people, that's the disadvantage of kids when introduce in gambling in an early age.

The effect on adult could be minimal or not, but in a child? it will be always worst.

12-13 years of are is very young to start gambling in my opinion. In my country you need to be atleast 18. I remember when being 16 that I really wanted to go a casino, but even with my parents it wasn't possible. The only thing I could do was play scratch cards at home. With hindsight it was probably good that I couldn't go gambling because the risk of getting addicted is much higher in younger ages. If the young gamblers where supervised by their experienced parents than it might be okay.

12-13 years of age was too young to be engage in gambling, at this age a child shouldn't be involved in this kind of game, they must enjoy playing at the field, more on strenght kind of game. Actually I guess at the teenage years of a child or youth they can be taught about gambling but don't encourage them to join because it was so risky for them to enjoy gambling. I am worrying about the possible effects in emotional and mental aspect that a gambling may bring.

What else would you expect from a Hero Member account who has 'earned' a total of 8 merits (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=246367) so far?

The sad thing is that their parents are perpetuating their own mistakes on their children, even if it is a bit hypocrite they should tell their kids to do as they say and not as they do, they should try to get them out of gambling but those parents that are addicted to gambling probably do not care anymore about what the kid does or does not do, and in some cases they could even encourage that behaviour as the kids end up bringing money with them and more than anything that is what those that are addicted to gambling want.

Some case here in our country that parents who gamble was open to let their children watch them while they were playing. My mother was a card player too, she used to play cards everynoon time as a way to spend her time and I am here watching her playing, analyzing what the rules of the game was and how to play the cards. At early age of mine as I could remember I was 10-11 years old I already knew how to play cards, but what the good thing was my mother didn't really encourage me to reall engaged myself in gambling. Even though she was a card player she've been able to control herself and stop gambling, but what she didn't know that I have already learned how to gamble and now I am not really a gambler but some sort of enjoying gambling.

Well, that is a sad truth and it seems we have the same experience. However in my case though, my parents are not that much into gambling they only play when there's an occasion or something, and through their play, I was able to learn from it. At a very young age, I managed to play gambling with a small bet on it (my parent didn't encourage me gamble I just test it out on my own), for me it was fun and really interesting but just like my parent I only play when there's an occasion, perhaps I learned it from them. What I am glad about is that even though I was exposed to gambling at a very young age I was not able to fall into addiction, I just play gambling for purely fun not without the intent of winning, and if win that would be just a bonus.

That must be a good example of good parenting. When you are under age (hope in your country also 18 years is a legal age to gamble), that must be a wise decision not to allow you to get into gambling. Because, if you found good profits from gambling then you may plan to live your life out of gambling only but there cannot be any assurance your gambling will support you to live out of it. So prohibiting you when you were under age from gambling, must be a very good decision a parent could do IMO.

I agree that the consequences will be fatal to let under age children play gambling, because they have unstable emotions and are very easily
addicted. There is not only gambling can be addictive, children under age will be addicted to mobile phone games too if not restricted.
Therefore I support parents, which forbids their children to recognize gambling when they are under age. That way can save the child's future,
therefore, parents must be disciplined towards their children.

Gambling isn't unknown to you since your childhood and still you didn't become an addicted player because of this. As you can see children don't become addicted individuals futurely purely because they were familiarized with gambling. When the addiction comes later there are extra factors which aren't considered.
Children are curious and it's normal they want to learn the game rules and to play a little bit. I think that is normal and healthy, since there is adult guidance and the games don't involve real bets, instead only matches for leisure and educative purposes. It actually will help children to improve their self control skills for their future.

Parenting would really be having a great role from time to time when it comes on how would they gonna handle out their children in terms of awareness on particular things in life.

Its always been part of our responsibility to look after them and avoid them on things which would really give out the possibility for some unfortunate situations in life that might happen.

Its not right to let those young minds to get involved with gambling because same as you said that theyre not mature enough on being aware on what theyre dealing with.
Without proper guidance and reminders then they might really be turn out to be an addicted one on a very young age.

That's right and everything you mention has to be done in full control to supervise the children's growth, and it's not always that you have control around the clock to keep an eye on them.
And it is undeniable that anything can happen because of association, most of them can find out and get involved in gambling from association without the knowledge of their parents.
Just like me, when I first got involved, I got to know traditional and online gambling and it was all because of associations.

children under the age who played gambling will definitely be unproductive for their studies.  here in my country, we and the local government are very concerned about a large number of young gamblers, although access to legal casinos is not possible they make illegal gambling with thugs.  directions from parents are needed by children who are still under the age of 17+

It lies on the parents, who should raise the children in the right direction by pointing out to these younger generations the many risks attach to gambling and pointing to them the right age and the right thinking to gamble, you cannot stop them from gambling they will eventually gamble later or sooner in their life, but once they are disciplined and they know the risk, they will be ok.

The generation today is more of the risk-taker but don't look at how much risk that they should bear. The parents have an important role to guide their children and if a teenager or a kid gets into gambling at a young age.
There's only one idea that we will be having in our minds and that is because their parents didn't guide them well.

Gambling is addictive, and from that reason alone one shouldn't be letting their kids gamble just because they said so. You won't give crack or meth to your kids just because they wanted to do it do you? Allow them to gamble when they are at of legal age and is able to make their own money. That would be the best time to teach them how to spend and save money as well which would help take them a very long way.

If your kid is getting money then you cannot monitor what he is getting, be it meth or crack if your kid gets a steady flow of money even as personal funds from you i bet no parent can monitor what he is going to do with it. And that can be said about his online activities as well, if someone wants to gamble he wont be saying his parents that he wanted to gamble he might tell another story to get the money from his parents :P.

In most countries, gambling is part of their culture. I also grew up in a family of gamblers and my grand mother also has a small casino where she and her friend play cards all day there are at least 5 tables where people could play and most players were my neighbors and cousins. My grand mother thought me well to gamble if I am earning my own money to play with so I know how hard to earn through my own effort and how easy to lose money in gambling. They never encourage me to gamble but they are open minded to let me play whenever I want as long as I play responsobly. I am earning my own money now but gambling had never been part of my daily life and gladly I am not addicted to it. So, I guess gambling addiction can be avoided at early age with proper parental guidance and disclipine.

Minimal on adults? I doubt that. Adults or a teenager or a kid, no matter the age, as long as someone doesn't know how to properly manage their finance shouldn't be allowed to bet. Hence why my earlier opinions were about how the age was minimal. It's almost common sense that kids wouldn't really be allowed, since they're brains are still underdeveloped and the concept of finance management isn't something they themselves would know, but I suppose it isn't impossible for that to happen, just that in the end, they wouldn't use it to gamble since the circumstances for them to actually understand it should already reveal that they have problems with finance.

Your concern for children who start accessing illegal gambling is reasonable, because if we let it happen it could ruin the child's future. As we all
know children who are still under the age of 17 have immature minds, so it's very easy to get addicted to gambling. Therefore in all countries
there are restrictions regarding when it is allowed to play gambling, the problem is getting more complex after the digital era, as now many online
gambling have sprung up and finally can be accessed by children. In this case, it is hoped that even tighter parental supervision is expected.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with parents limiting children's access to internet use too.

You just made me remember how I did actually bet when I was a  child. It was with collectible cards of La Liga, we put these on a stack, and the ones that went there were negotiated carefully by us, absolute experts of 9 year of age at most. The game was very simple, you stacked the cards and you had to hit the stack with your hand and try to make the cards turn upside down. You got those cards that you managed to turn.

I guess there is not such a thing as an age bracket after all.

I am sure that every country has standardization about the age restrictions for gambling. And they may be different from each other. And even the country allows kids for gambling, it will also depend on how parents can control and manage their kids to be involved in gambling or not, at what age exactly.
I ever wrote about Age restriction in gambling here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230360.0

However, in my opinion, there must be several things to be considered when a kid going to play gambling. because gambling is full of risks, emotions, and also mental. If someone (at whatever age) is not ready for the risks, emotions, and also mentally to play gambling, it is better not to play because it may give more negative impacts on them. They may not be ready with the loss and risks, only play gambling based on emotions or hype, and also will do everything to still play gambling always. This may be harmful

Every country do have rules regarding to gambling, what age a citizen is allow legally to gamble. But to me, Gambling involved so many risk, and should be played only by people who are mature enough to manage risk.

I dont support under age gambling, because when a child of about 12 years start gambling, what future is that child creating for him/her self.Parent should be extra careful about their children, lecture them the side effects of gambling and the spirit to say no to it.

Now that I find is very insulting for the poor man. He has $200,000 when he was a teenager. Who the hell in the world has 200k dollars when he was a teen? I know many people who only have 2 dollars in their name when they were teens. So I don't believe that these people who invest have issues with their spending and saving, they are barely trying to survive in a world the is being customized for rich people. Prices are high, services are high, and poor people have no choice but to spend all their money to survive. That is why I teach my son every single skill and trick about money making at an early age. Even poor men needs to learn to do small business.

In fact poverty forces you to work at a young age the rich father told the story of how the poor father became rich by working hard as a teenager. If you have a good work experience many people make money as teenagers but in order to become suitable for gambling you have to learn the gambling sites well adolescents who are older have more knowledge about the market. Playing at the right age makes both investing and gambling profitable As a teenager you can start with a very small scale business idea and later turn it into a full fledged big business.

I'd still prefer to the age bracket where a person can fully understand the responsibility of gambling. Yes playing gambling has a responsibility, a responsibility for yourself to have a limitation of what and how much you can only afford to lose and to spend. Here in our country I can personally witnessed gamblers who gamble in their young age. I just felt that these young people shouldn't be involved seriously in gambling, but what else can we do to prevent them from gambling when they have already been involved for a long time.

Gambling is highly addictive, even for a adult. Age is just a factor, the important is a person knows the risk of gambling and can afford the risk, if a person can do this, then i think even his/her age under legal gambling age, he/she can gambling.

Not many adult people know the risk of gambling and even if they know that they are still playing gambling and risk their money. But if we talk about the ages, adults and young people can become addicted if they can not control themselves because gambling can tempt them to play the games. Without control, it will be difficult to stop gambling, but they will enjoy playing various gambling games.

According to the story of the most successful person in our country they all experienced poverty and hardship before they became really rich. I think there's no perfect age for gambling. Starting gambling at the young age makes the player to be pro at early age. The more the player to be exposed in the gamble, the more knowledge they can get. But before doing gamble it's really important that the person was stable financially. It's better idea to establish first business and when it grow then that's the perfect age for gambling. But ofc gamble responsibly.

There might be really those people who are working to gamble and ends up with nothing. But those people who were forced to work at a young age and they'll just put it on gambling.
Their parents should take care and guide them because if not, they're not good parents.

First, I don't believe that an age bracket is perfect for gambling because not been addicted to gambling depends on buzz control so a 65years old may not the strength to control his buzz while a 19yrs old will be able to control his buzz very well.

It's understandable that the teen boy that had $200,000 was not from a poor family but been is by choice man have to choose what he want and work towards it.
That's the reason why I don't believe poor people have no choice but to spend all their money to survive.

As a parent, we should really be mindful on how to raise up our children on the right path but there are really times that they are been exposed into things like this due to this current digital age

where accessing sites could really be easy or just a few clicks away thats why its better to teach out while theyre still young and do tell and being aware about gambling addiction.

We cant be a perfect parent though but at least we do our best to make our child walked into a right path but in the end of the day, they are the ones who would really make out their
own decision on their own.

I am sure no matter if that gambler is an adult or teenager, he will not become addicted instead of controlling his emotion if he gets win or loss if he can have good control in gambling. But gambling better played for an adult because they already mature and know about how they need to do in the current situations. An adult people can think wise than the teenager, although not all adult people can do that. But maybe gambling will be okay to play by people who already reach more than 20 years old.

I think before anyone can provide a honest answer to the question will have to first go back to the reason why the age bracket was introduced in gambling.
The age bracket was introduced because of the huge gambling addiction happening within the youth. Yes, some adults are worse than the youth when it comes to gambling addiction at least they were mature enough to be responsible for what came after their addiction.

I also often find articles related to adults who are addicted to gambling, because they fail to control their emotions. If there are still many adults
who fail to control their emotions when playing gambling, especially children who are emotionally unstable. Therefore, countries that legalize
gambling, usually have their own rules for the age limit allowed to play gambling. I agree with you that 20 years and over is a sufficient age
if we want to start gambling. Because usually when people are 20 years old their way of thinking and emotions is far different, therefore it is
safer if they want to try gambling.

younger generation mostly doesnt know how to handle extreme situations. but with adults, they have experience life in so many ways already, so it is assumed that they know how to handle themselves.
with simple financial probs, some youngsters will make undesirable decisions for themselves. because they are not ready to face the real world yet, they can commit extreme solutions for themselves like taking their own life like this  case  (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1325343/teenager-18-killed-himself-after-losing-more-than-5000-on-internet-betting-sites/).

The exposure of things like gambling through internet is inevitable but as parents, we have to make sure that we guide them well and we do it in the best that we can.
We can have an initiative like we're going to block all gambling related websites and other websites that we don't like them to see.

This is what im doing but i wont be surprised if i had missed out and they do able to access something that hadnt been blocked.With all the gambling sites existing in the market
its impossible for you to block each every one of them  thats why its better for you to teach or told them about gambling and what are the cons and the risk
on dealing with it if they dont know on what they should gonna do.

The problem if a gambler is not in legal age is, most likely he/she is still depending on his parents, using the given allowance for school or in other important expenses. I think the right age for someone to be a gambler is you're already independent, earning through your own hard work, and knows the responsibility. Its true that adults are mature enough to face the consequences of their action and can handle the situation without depending on anyone but sometimes thats not always the case.

I'd argue that some adults don't actually take responsibility for their addiction, the best examples would be families where abuse is quite rampant due to debts. It's either the father/mother side + the children are being physically abused due to the addiction of the other parent. Being an adult does not equate to being mature/responsible for their actions. Adults are always, ALWAYS worse than youth when it comes to actually take responsibility imo because they've ridden through time already, they know the pros and cons where as the youth is still afraid of consequences, hence why they always take responsibility to actually do something right.

I understand your point but it's a bit difficult. Most kids these days are doing summer jobs in my city. You either work as an intern a few weeks or just see why kind of jobs are possible in the neighborhood. For me this was my first earned money but I was only 14-17. If I think now that at this are I would have the chance to gamble with it I probably would have done so. But my understanding of risk and reward at that time was not there yet. There is a small chance I would have won money, but it's more likely that I would have gambled until I lost it all. We really need to be carful with letting minors gamble.

Its dangerous to allow someone so young, naive and inexperienced to gamble. "Underage" have no concept of money, financial and real word problems couple with the digital environment engulfs young minds and makes them susceptible to developing a serious gambling problem. There’s a saying that, "What you’d become as an adult is a reflection in your youth". Youngsters often struggle to properly deal with loses and always want to overcompensate themselves by throwing even bigger money on games of chance. By so doing, gambling encourages reckless and irresponsible behavior and inhibits the ability to properly assess risks and consequences. There should be policies put in place to prevent underage gambling and their effectiveness monitored. Physical and digital face(age) identification and detection machines should be put in place.

That's one of the problems, but the main problem with young people is that they are more impulsive than when they get older, so they are more prone to be driven by emotions and can end up very badly if they are allowed to gamble.

Apart from risk and reward, they should be taught statistics and statistics applied to gambling, but it seems to me that this will never be done. It is usually only taught to people studying a degree in mathematics.

Yes, that's expected. Even how we try hard, there will always be the tricks that the kids can do without our supervision. It could be from their curiosity and being resourceful because things are just a search and a click away and they'll eventually understand how to do things such as unblocking/blocking.

The best time is when the individual is ready regardless of his age, he already has a job that can support his gambling, he has control and responsibility how to gamble and stop to gamble.

But you cannot expect anyone to be having a job below 18 or 20 years of old in most countries. I mean instead of having criteria based on earning potential, it would be much better having age limit as one of the criteria for the restriction of getting into gambling. I'm not saying your idea is bad but that alone cannot help exactly for the reason of why we are having many restrictions for getting into gambling.

I would say gambling should be permitted only after 30 or 35 years of old. Because only beyond this age, people start realizing their social and family responsibilities. If you want gamblers to be responsible for their actions then age restrictions should be at possible higher end.

@lienfaye, you're about the child age bracket but the children of these days are impatient once they are 18yrs old they believe they are independent enough and for the adult, everyone is vulnerable at some point which why I believe anyone that wants to gamble needs to fully know what she/he is getting herself into.
@Wexnident, you're right age does not define the level of someone's maturity or been responsible for her/his action cause, in the end, it depends on the personal level of understanding but I argue the adult addiction to be worse than the youth.


@Mauser, that's the point because they are more vulnerable than the adult and if we are not careful about the minor gambling our society will be affected and most future will lose their dream along the road.


That's what it is.

Age restrictions does usually mind on lower age than higher age because mature people are really being mindful towards their actions.Yes they do have the financial capacity
and those priorities in life because we are most likely being having an own family in that time which means you do have much more important to deal with.
Unlike if you are just young where you dont mind much on particular things then you would most likely be careless towards your actions.
Even though this isnt really that much of precise because even older ones arent exempted when it comes to gambling addiction.

The worst thing that can happen to a human being is getting addicted to gambling. Gambling can frustrate grown-up human being life talk more like an underage kid. I wouldn't bear it seeing an underage playing gambling around me cos I know how terrible the effect might be in his or her life when he comes in age.

The best time to get involved in gambling is when you already have something doing than you don't have at all and you found yourself, gambling with fire

Getting involved with gambling doesnt basically mean that you would really be automatically get addicted to it but with minor age or doesnt really know on how this world works
then for sure you would really be finding these things to be a bit interested and doesnt mind off that much about the risk and when they are already getting some awareness
and already make gambling as a habit then most likely they would really be considered out to be addicted ones and thats not really a good thing to look on.
This is why its better to avoid while its still early and dealing with gambling is someone who had been aware on how things works and what are the effect when you do hooked up.

Yes, since they can easily become curious about this type of operation, they can easily become addicted to it, particularly if money is involved.

Of course, children have no concept of the value of money, and this is when gambling addiction begins. So, if you know any children who are gambling, you should intervene right away because if they continue to gamble, they will face potential failure.

The best time is when you are financially secure and have no financial issues.  ;)

Gambling at an age of 18-25 might be more risky to get addicted to gambling, but it has also upsides. First, you have less money as a student so it is more likely that you will lose money when trying out new games. As a new gambler we need to get familiar with all the different casinos games. If we start when already having a good income than we will likely gamble with more money. Second, we are learning better at a young age. It will be easier for us to learn new strategies. Third, we are less attached to others in life. Later it might be that our wife won't allow us to gamble.

Well, the only beauty that you can get when you are young and irresponsible would be this - you learn from your mistakes early and you will be able to overcome the craving for participating in gambling because you fear in losing. Yes, many youngters when they tried real world gambling and they lose, tend to shun gambling altogether or elevate their gambling cravings to something that could use so that they will not lose or if they lose, the money will not be that great.

Children are not aware of value of time as well. If you notice when gamblers are not bothering about the value of their time, efforts and money, they will waste all of them and that may lead to severe gambling addiction. On all of above, we should never give out any chances for our kids to gamble; it means we should keep our gambling as secret as possible until they grow up and learn the value of money and time.

In my traditions, elders are keeping their alcohol and gambling habits as confidential as anything else. Even they do gamble/drink just for the reason of socializing, they prefer it not into reach of their kids. In my opinion also, it is a good thing and we should keep this habits up always.

In the name of socializing more negative impact happens in real life. We need to be careful handling this issues. People need to be careful taking care of the kids from social living. We need to make the kids understand the true need of social living, but the after effects of wasting time and efforts on luck based things.

I was allowed by My parents after graduated in secondary , means at the age of 16 ...

But for me? i will allowed my children after they find their own Job and earning Money on their own.

Yeah it is important , The attitude and treatment for gambling .

because this will send us from addiction.

Yes, between the ages of 18 and 25, many young people start gambling. 

This is not a problem if the boy or girl has many other hobbies in life (sex, sports, travel, work, business, parties, etc.). 

However, many young people are introverts.  They have no friends, strong social connections and a bright interesting life.  For such young people, gambling is very dangerous.  Gambling addiction may develop.  It will be very difficult to get rid of this gambling addiction later. 

Gambling addiction is considered the most difficult to treat.

I understand the points being made here about minors and gambling and I fully agree with them. Maybe I expressed myself a bit wrong. Gambling should only be allowed after 18, not before. The risk of becoming addicted to gambling as a minor is definitely higher. After 18 we usually finished school and either go to university or start working. At that age we are allowed to vote and drive. This is also a good age in my opinion to try yourself with gambling. Getting taught about gambling by our parents is good but we need to make our own decision to fully understand. This if course means that the gambling shouldn't be excessive. We need to protect the people who are not yet ready to protect themselves.

it is not about the amount of money we can risk in gambling , But our knowledge and understanding in gambling in which very important .

Because even if you can spend millions of Dollar in gambling but you don't know how to handle your desire and contentment then you will end up addicted and loser all the time.

Recently read a story about similar incident. A guy from the Asian country moved to USA. He has never been into gambling earlier. He went to USA for educational purpose, but for fun and spend the holidays he started to go out to casinos with his friends. Those people who grew up in the USA know well about gambling and has got their limits. This guy went out of control within few weeks, because of the wins he made on the beginning through luck.

The winning didn't continue, and he wasn't able to come out of it. This has made him spend for weeks and at some situation he wasn't able to pay for his accomodation. Even after such scenario he can't control himself. Finally he reached home with the help of his friends. If he were there for few more months we don't know what could've happened to his life.

it is on our family guidance that will decide which age needs to engaged in gambling , because if i were to choose, i would rather not learn gambling ever since , because this only gives me a little bit of happiness but most of troubles and losses .
but like what says , past is past and we need to live today and tomorrow.

Indeed, the best way to determine at what age gambling can be introduced, it should be left up to the respective parents. Every parent must
understand their child better, so about when to introduce gambling should be the parent who determines. Even though gambling only gives
a little happiness, and gives more problems and disadvantages. But I have never regretted learning to play gambling,  and until now I have
no desire to stop playing gambling. I think the sensation of playing gambling can provide happiness that is difficult to explain,  even if I am
stressed about work, enough to play gambling for an hour, the stress I feel can disappear instantly.

Correct.

Also, having a job doesn't mean already that you could play gambling anytime you want, and claiming that you have control are not yet sure unless you started playing gambling, that's when you could say if you really have control or none. The right time to play gambling in my opinion is when you're financially stable, not when you're just a happy go lucky teenager or adult that got bored and played gambling.

Anyone on legal age even some minors now do gambling but It will be better if there's no one in the family involved in gambling since if there is one atleast who do that it will influence everyone in the family and we all know the effect of gambling if not properly trained or have no gut to understand the situation.

Even if anyone in your family is having gambling addiction or ever gambles they are not going to tell publicly that they are having any issues and mostly we do not spend too much money online but rather in real physical casinos where you have a drink or two and the colorful women that surrounds you will get you addicted in no time if you are not having the control.

Well I used to believe that the childs growth especially the way they grow, their habits and hobby choices are being affected mostly by his/her environment. Its just simply the blending of the childs attitude or outlook in life base on what kind of environment he/she has grown up that's why it is better that at their you age they shouldn't have someone in their family members that could teach them or someone they may get curious why are they gambling or  what else.

So for me the legal age was always the best age to get involved in gambling because first, he/she was matured enough to handle risks, loses and emotional breakdown that the gambling may bring.

I think that the age issue does not affect gambling much. There are many different forms of gambling available, a child can fully participate in gambling due to the influence of adults or not being properly taught. However, children should not be exposed to gambling because I believe it will adversely affect their future.

Age does affect a person's mentality towards gambling. If he/she was exposed very early on gambling then that will change their lives forever and will allow them to think that gambling is fine at their young age. We share the same belief that they shouldn't be introduced to gambling at a young age because there really are going to have the effects.

The earlier you do deal with gambling then the earlier you would really become addicted since you would really be growing together with that gambling habit of yours
on where you do believe that this activity would really be helpful for you to make money but once the reality would slap into your face then you will surely be realizing
that you do have those wrong thoughts but if this one will really be varying on someones awareness and mental alertness regarding on the situation.
Each person does have different take into certain things in like.

Personally speaking, I placed my first bet on a sport game when I was 14 (and I could not legally be allowed to play but the guy at the counter did not bother to ask for my ID and allowed me to people). It was such a great feeling back then: I felt I was doing something only adults are allowed to do but I would have preferred that somebody would have told me about what it really means to gamble. Good that I found it by myself soon  8)

I am only child in my family but fortunately i am not really addicted to gambling, but not with my father. He keep gambling everyday buy lottery and never stop, it really affects to my family. With that, when i have children i will try anything to give my children education about gambling. If we forced children to stop gambling they will feel curious and then try, i think i wouldn't let them even once.

That is one problem with this day and age, even if you try to limit access to gambling sites if kids really want to gamble it is going to be impossible for you to avoid this as they could always gamble in the house of one of their friends or rent a computer and do so that way, and now that we have cryptocurrencies and anyone can buy them then this is even more easy than before so parents need to explain to their kids why it is a bad idea that they gamble at such a young age.

Something that most of your age are longing to achieved, feeling boosted that you'll able to make your first bet and thinking that someone who are also in your age wanted to accmplished.

Good thing that until now you are still capable and not being addicted(hopefully) if you do have good self control then managing this activity ain't hard for you.

Case to case basis, some early gamblers ended up being addicted while some manage to take advantages as experienced taught them to be more responsible while playing/betting.

I personally think the age group around 26-50 is perfect for gambling, especially if you have a stable job and income. Which you expect from a late 20's person. The reason for it is that they do not get emotionally invested into gambling and mostly have other engagements, errands to do through the day so they do not get addicted. There are exceptions in there too, but thats what I think is probably a decent time to get into gambling. If you start off as a teen, you might learn a few tricks quickly but most of them will get heavily emotionally invested and financially too and lose focus on other things in life, trying to make a quick buck by gambling.

I don't think that the performance of a gambler depends on the age, unless he is not in good health. With age, experience increases and it comes handy at times. But younger people will have more agility. And another thing is that younger people tend to take more risk, while the same people will have lower risk taking appetite, once they move to middle ages. Now this can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the occasion. Sometimes a lower risk taking policy would save you from complete bankruptcy. Some other time, it may deny you a jackpot.

I can safely admit I have never had a gambling addiction but I would concede that it became a weekly habit: I started placing a betslip every week on Serie A games. Most of the time I split the bet with a few friends (imagine the average bet was less than 3€): I mean we used to love football so much that it was all part of the same thing.

As far as I know the minimum legal age for gambling is 18 years and over but it all depends on the conditions applied by the gambling commission of a country and usually some countries also apply different types of gambling categories for different ages, but in this case of course age violations often occur on online gambling because usually participants will find it easier to fake their identity to be able to access the gambling site and this is why gambling platforms should apply some strict rules in accepting registration of their new members.

Trust me they will do it with or without your knowledge:)

I watched my elders gamble and then later my older cousins,,, and was old enough anyway to buy lotteries later on but nobody ever knew when I started gambling online (I am old already so not a problem but my point is that many kids can easily gamble online and nobody will find out.

This is why casinos have a responsibility to find out.

The age issue can affect gambling as if a child playing gambling, they tend to play for more because they see playing gambling as a fun thing that they can do. But the problem is they will hard to control themselves, which can lead them to lose more money if no people or someone can stop them from playing gambling. We need to monitor our children and always take care of our children to not involve or try to play gambling. Maybe after they have control for themselves.

Probably 18 which is the considered adult age in many countries and since it is a more established number then I would say that it is the right age.  Some people might say that age isn't an issue but to be honest, it is a bunch of BS because your formative years is a really good time to do much more better things and those years have the habits that should be healthy rather than gambling.

Well, age is not alone that we need to consider before playing gambling, there's a lot of things like financial, emotional and mental health before proceeding or claiming that a certain people could play gambling once he reach the legal age. I mean he sure can play but he should start with no bettings, like a trial account first, for him to decide whether gambling is for him or not.

Nope wrong. In many countries 18 is just start of adulthood and not totally adult.

In Asian countries 18 years of Age is still living with their parents and still studying according to their parents expenses so how come that this can be considered as adult?

an adult is capable of having His own money and cans pend for Himself , but with this standard, this will end up spending their allowances for gambling in which a NO NO for me.

Yes, we do have different take on this thing and those young people that engages themselves early in gambling really has to be guided very well if not by their parents, whoever their guardian is. I've seen young people who really became addicted after years of getting into gambling and they cannot help themselves anymore but that addiction is putting them in the worst situation of life that they can ever be.

This is going to be incredibly difficult in this market where we know gamblers have a very strong preference to avoid casinos that force any kind of KYC on their customers, this is why no amount of measures are going to be enough to stop a kid or a young person that it is determined to gamble, it is better to deal with this the old-fashioned way and have a conversation with them and tell them why gambling at their age is not a good idea and it is something they could do only when they reach the necessary mental maturity to handle their losses.

We know that many young people do not have good control of many things so when they engage in gambling games, that can make them lose control and make them lose their money. If they found excitement in playing gambling games, they can stay playing the games for longer than usual and sooner or later, they can become addicted to gambling.

No matter what, young people need to be guided by mature people and they need to tell that do not to try to playing gambling because the risk will be too big for them. It is better not to play gambling to stay away from losing and addiction.

When it comes to decision making then young age would really be that mature enough on dealing up with things and we know that gambling isnt something that you can just deal
without proper awareness on how it do affects and how could you possibly tied up to addiction which is the most dangerous thing for someone to be hooked on.
Talking about perfect age then that would be the time on where someone does have the rightful thinking on which is right and which is wrong.
Any thing that you do tend to get involved should really be on moderation.

Young age will have a difficult time deciding if they are in gambling games because some of them can not think like the adult people and get deeper into gambling without realizing it. With young blood, they can get tempted in the gambling game and spend more money because they will be curious about the gambling games. I think it is hard to talk about the perfect age to playing gambling because that will relate to how to mature someone and how they can be wise in any situation and how they can act base on the current situations.

Correct, it is a known fact that our brain does not reach full maturity until our mid-twenties, obviously some people reach a state of mental maturity earlier but the majority of people take a lot of time, this is why we see that the majority of the most important mistakes that people are going to do during their lives are going to be done at an early age, after that the rate of mistakes will go down as you reach mental maturity and you see how your previous actions were very dumb and you avoid repeating them.