Age restriction in gambling

[doctor877]

Can someone comfirm this age restriction from malawi.? Personally I think people should have known what's right from what's wrong and be able to stand alone before they are introduced to gambling. Age 16-18 is a good bench mark.

[pakhitheboss]

Can someone comfirm this age restriction from malawi.? Personally I think people should have known what's right from what's wrong and be able to stand alone before they are introduced to gambling. Age 16-18 is a good bench mark.

I am also surprised to see Malawi's legal age for gambling.

LOL 5 years, they are still feeding on their mother's milk but they are legal enough to gamble. I am sure the lawmakers in Malawi were high on something while discussing about the age limit for gambling.

[iamsheikhadil]

They should just change it to 18 or something. Or the age when they are able to vote. Because I think if they are able to vote and make a decision to choose their future politically they should be able to do it by choosing their future financially as well

[yanto@1977]

Basically, gambling is just game but when include money that's dangerous for every age. We can't describe gambling with age because many gambling site doesn't need KYC and now use crypto for alternative payment, more easier than use currency. I'm not deny your post but I think we should try giving explanation and education that gambling is not safe for everyone, stay away and use your money to take care your future.

[Debonaire217]

By the way, I find this thread very useful because on our forum, we don't really know the ages of the people playing.

So, adding some information on this thread, the minimum gambling age of the country Philippines is 21, I could say that because I reside on that country and I think that rule isn't really been followed. Lets take for example, underage people is allowed to play sweepstakes and scratch game which could be considered gambling. And by means of international gambling, there is no restrictions that some countries could provide.

In terms of our technology right now, gambling exists beyond the limits, that is because, most of the gambling sites aren't really performing a strict KYC to determine the age of the players.

[Yatsan]

Here in Philippines age restriction is 21 just like in the post but, it's only applicable on casinos. Many 21 and below and below here that can gamble to street and even at "perya" where it's a street reception for gambling and you can see a lot of kids there that are betting. Gambling here in Philippines is very popular and there's a mild sanctions for those people that are doing illegal gambling, Just in the street whether it's night or day you can see a lot of people there that are gambling or betting for a street cock fight. Age 21 is for casino only, and only few people here are gambling to casinos considering that it's available anywhere.

[Kurokonobasuke]

As a trader, I knewed that the allowing age to enter a gambling is eighteen years old (18) so that I didn't even expected that there are some countries are have restrictions to allowed a one's gamble. Beyond reading this, there's a thing that gets my full attention. It is the country of Malawi I was shocked that this country allows to join in gambling at the age of five(5) years old, because when I was five years old I didn't really mastered how to solve a simple operational problem. So that I didn't agreed on five years old allowing range of age in gambling.

[Rengga Jati]

I think that rule isn't really been followed.

The rule is more likely as a suggestion or the reference for the gamblers and gambling sites. Whether they will obey or break it, depends on their understanding and awareness. I don't see that the government will take them to the prisons when they break it. So, it is surely possible to break by some bad men. But I hope you don't!  

most of the gambling sites aren't really performing a strict KYC to determine the age of the players.

True. They may not really care about who plays their gambling games. They must be happy to have new players, it will take advantage to them. The KYC process looks like a formality only on some gambling sites. To be honest, I'm not surprised in it yet the gambling owners should focus on the profits (money), not to the quality (capability) of the players.

[TheGreatPython]

When I saw 5 years old is allowed, I tried searching where this country is. And Malawi is in Southern Africa.  

Thanks for the information and actually their currency is called as Malawian Kwacha and 1 USD gets you 732 MW which shows us how terrible the condition must be in that country and I really feel for the people there.

The country had suffered poverty over the years, Country hardly recovered depression and still the exploitation of the large estate owners. Maybe at early stage people are resorting to gambling but its still quite not right to have it approved by law to allow 5 year old to gamble.

Maybe even the law is bound to make such decisions to get enough profit to run their government but I indeed agree that allowing a 5-year old kid to gamble is just like allowing him to take drugs and I don't know this country will recover in future because their condition is dire financially and they are not making wise decisions either.

[In the silence]

That age restriction from malawi may affect the nations economy by being children able to gamble early in their years.
Maybe that is one of the reason why the nations growth is slow.

[bitcoin31]

Here in Philippines age restriction is 21 just like in the post but, it's only applicable on casinos. Many 21 and below and below here that can gamble to street and even at "perya" where it's a street reception for gambling and you can see a lot of kids there that are betting. Gambling here in Philippines is very popular and there's a mild sanctions for those people that are doing illegal gambling, Just in the street whether it's night or day you can see a lot of people there that are gambling or betting for a street cock fight. Age 21 is for casino only, and only few people here are gambling to casinos considering that it's available anywhere.

Yes only gambling casino is not allowed to the person who under 21 to play gambling. But for the other kinds of gambling in the Philippines many people allowed a minor to play and that is not good because instead of studying other teenager wantd to play gambling I believe those teenager their parents did not guide their child carefully so they become addict not only in gambling but also drinking alcolhol and drugs.

[Question123]

For me the real age that person can allowed to play gambling is 18 and up because that age our mind is fully developed and we can decide what we want.

But for under 18 I think  the government needs to force the gambling place to give order to them that under that age is not allowed to enter and play gambling . Because other casino and who work in casino sometimes they allowed them .

[Distinctin]

That age restriction from malawi may affect the nations economy by being children able to gamble early in their years.
Maybe that is one of the reason why the nations growth is slow.

Malawi just like have $19 million total population, and at age starting to 5, they can gamble, so it's like 70% or more population are eligible to gamble.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/malawi-population/

This country is ridiculous, I bet this country belongs to the underdeveloped countries.

[yazher]

Age 5? is the bad thing for the young one to learn how to waste his money and most of the time when He became addicted he will learn to still some money on his parent's pants. This is some bad regulation here, they need to adjust it because at that age he is not capable to earn his own money, he may end up losing all of his allowances at a very young age.

[Janation]

Did you ever noticed that any gambling site asked you to verify the age limit at the time of registration itself?

They don't bother really.

I am not saying that all gambling sites are like that but there are a lot of gambling sites that don't have a KYC so young gamblers could easily get in. If they will be having strict policies in registrations to gamblers, those people who don't want to be taken off their anonymity will be finding other gambling sites and that is what they don't want to happen. At the end of the day, these young gamblers will find a way to gamble in that site or other sites so better now dwell on something that you can't really stop.

[mersal]

Did you ever noticed that any gambling site asked you to verify the age limit at the time of registration itself?

They don't bother really.

I am not saying that all gambling sites are like that but there are a lot of gambling sites that don't have a KYC so young gamblers could easily get in. If they will be having strict policies in registrations to gamblers, those people who don't want to be taken off their anonymity will be finding other gambling sites and that is what they don't want to happen. At the end of the day, these young gamblers will find a way to gamble in that site or other sites so better now dwell on something that you can't really stop.

Yes because its just a form of business so all they want to make profits and they also wants the users to agree above the age restrictions so users at their own discretion if they are entering into sites and play bets there.More kids have got enough knowledge to handle these situation and they won't have much money to gamble so it won't bother them too much...

[Latviand]

I am not aware at first that there are age restrictions varying across different countriws and some of them are below the 'standard' of the majority, but despite of this, we should respect those countries that allows 'minors' of other countries to play. But still, I am against allowing people, especially students, who are not having a job to gamble. Why? Because that is not their money in the first place giving them no reason to play.

Age 5? is the bad thing for the young one to learn how to waste his money and most of the time when He became addicted he will learn to still some money on his parent's pants. This is some bad regulation here, they need to adjust it because at that age he is not capable to earn his own money, he may end up losing all of his allowances at a very young age.

It is really a strange thing. At that age, I am just playing toys and I am not even that of a master when it comes to numbers but if that's the reality then it is awful. How would a child in such age, learned to gamble? Also, what would they do in gambling? They would more likely bet as they want to without analysis of what could be the outcome, giving ghem no rights to play to be honest. An age of 21 above, in my opinion, wohld be more valid because gambling is not a 'free' activity where one could just be chilled.

[coinlocket$]

Here in Italy also you need 18 years to be able to play for gambling, online/live.

I think this should be increased at least to 21 but you know since licenses are provided by governments and govs eat from gambling it will never happen, it may go lower in the future to increase the earning.

[kawetsriyanto]

That age restriction from malawi may affect the nations economy by being children able to gamble early in their years.

I, myself, dunno if it really affects the economic sector in the country. You need to take a little research to prove it. At least, you need to google and gather some data related to Malawi's gamble restriction and their economic growth. Who knows that the 5 years old children only play simple gambling games with nothing to do with money or profits. 

For me the real age that person can allowed to play gambling is 18 and up because that age our mind is fully developed and we can decide what we want.

That's true, mate. Someone with 18 years old is considered already quite mature. At this age, someone already has enough insight to determine what he should do. He also may have already got a job and can live independently.

[South Park]

It is quite surprising that a country has set such a low age restriction when it comes to gambling since in many countries you cannot gamble until you are legally an adult, personally I think age restrictions are a good idea, I like gambling and I do it from time to time but we need to be very responsible about it and a kid does not have enough maturity to know that what he is doing may have a negative effect on himself and his future if he does not control himself.

Its just right to have those low age restriction yet we know on how accessible we are when it comes to gambling specially now on a high tech era which we can easily visit out those sites
even on young age as long we are already aware on its existence.Its just right even on low age and its true that young minds shouldnt really be get involved into these things
on early yet there are lots of things that should be think or prioritize first when you are still growing rather than engaging to these.

Now it is almost impossible to avoid that kids get access to those sites if they want because even if you were to install a parental control software on their computers and smart phones they can still get access through the many devices that they are in contact and that do not have that protection, so it seems the best thing we can do is to warn them about the dangers of gambling at such an early age and hope they listen to you and do not gamble until they are old enough to understand what they are doing.