Should there be any age limit of Gambling?

[KTChampions]

The most percentage of people find gambling is too addictive and any kind to addiction can harm an immature brain heavily. As it is not possible to judge particularly whose brain is mature enough, an age limit is fixed.

This is a much more complex question than the question of "sufficient maturity of the mind." As we know, many adults suffer from this addiction (as well as from many other addictions), but they are fully adult capable people. What should we do with them if their actions do no harm to anyone other than themselves? In democratic countries, they have every right to harm themselves.

[Janation]

Maybe we could do a test if kids would like to be taken out of that general rule - like a maturity test if you really want to gamble with 16 or 17?

I think we don't need to do this. We must decide on a fixed age limit on gambling. Even it doesn't guarantee maturity but it is a common regulation around the world. To let 16 or 17 ages get a maturity test makes us like inconsistent with the regulation. So, in my opinion, it is better to make a fixed age limit on gambling, it will avoid confusion among people.

That will be a bad idea to test who is eligible for maturity in gambling. The purpose is clear and straight: To avoid the unnecessary stupid things which can be potentially done by underage group of people. The excitement and attitude to make easy money can bring the kids to this sphere but the final result will be as same as the older people with "gambling experience".

I think this problem is much more complicated than I expected since in online gambling some online casinos didn't have any age verification who were playing on their platform. But the fact that kids cannot make any legal transaction without verifying themselves but there are different other ways to get away with it. Unlike in traditional gambling where mostly kids can't enter the area if without the care of any adults. If a casino wanted to implement a strict rules here they can do it though, I just don't why most of them didn't have to.

As a gambler I don't want my information to be seen, I want to stay anonymous as possible.

A lot of online casinos have their own way of securing their sites and their users but when it comes to KYC and cryptocurrency gambling, I don't think I will like that. A lot of people here don't want KYC and I think you know why sites don't implement that.

 As I said, they can't filter their sites everytime so let's talk about their parents to cut off their connevtion to these sites since they can block sites to take care of their children.

[aioc]

The higher the age limit better it is but then government has 18 years of age limit in countries I know which is of legal tender age as per them. Also today with the internet age, there would be so many teenagers who would be into online gambling so much that age limit just exist for casinos and not for online gambling there is not minimum age as such.

That's true these children can sneak in to these online gambling sites and make a net, parents should be aware of these and take take the necessary actions or precautions, by checking the history of what there children are visiting online or monitoring their activities online.
Not only that they should also check the money they are giving to their children.

[LogitechMouse]

The most percentage of people find gambling is too addictive and any kind to addiction can harm an immature brain heavily. As it is not possible to judge particularly whose brain is mature enough, an age limit is fixed.

That is one of the reasons why I don't want to get addicted to gambling or any of my relative.

I know how harsh gambling is when it comes to the mental part and it can really affect ones brain if it is immature and it already affected many people both adult and young kids. Age limit can be implemented but in online gambling, this cannot be implemented as there is no KYC in the gambling sites.

As a gambler I don't want my information to be seen, I want to stay anonymous as possible.
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As I said, they can't filter their sites everytime so let's talk about their parents to cut off their connevtion to these sites since they can block sites to take care of their children.

If I'm using their services too, I don't want to share my information into somebody that I don't know like these gambling sites. I'd rather stay anonymous or just find another gambling site if they require KYC to their customers.
In the end, its the parents who will help these kids not to get addicted into gambling.

[nakamura12]

The age limit that a person can gamble legally must be 18 years old and above. When a person gamble it could cause a harm to you or to other person as well. Even a person who's age is above 18 years old could even cause problem to his/her family. Better not to gamble and get addicted and cause problem.

[coin-investor]

There should be only if they can impose it because id's can be fake and some kids look older in their appearance and some casinos can be bribed to accept money as long as they can play and they have money to play, I read in one thread here that there are kids that allow playing as young as 12 so we cannot say what is morally the right age to play.

[maydna]

The age limit that a person can gamble legally must be 18 years old and above. When a person gamble it could cause a harm to you or to other person as well. Even a person who's age is above 18 years old could even cause problem to his/her family. Better not to gamble and get addicted and cause problem.

I think 18 years old still have difficulty controlling their emotions, especially if they play gambling because they will easily become greed if they win the games. That can make them play more without thinking about stopping from the games for a while and leaving the places with the win money. I agree that better not to gamble and get addicted from an early age because if we are getting addicted, we will be difficult to solve the addicting if we don't have someone that cares with us.

[Shimmiry]

Does the age even hold a meaning? Should it be regulated ? Since Crypto gambling sites have to be super private and therefore regulating the age is a big factor.

Should steps be taken to take care that we don't being up a generation of addictive gamblers or it's all good ?

I don't think that limiting age is applicable in online gambling. Most of the users prefer anonymity and doesn't want to submit KYC, hence making it hard for the gambling platforms to control or know what their client's real age is. It would only applicable if it was on physical casinos, not in online ones. But then if there should be a limit, then I think yes as most kids nowadays doesn't matured enough to handle the risk and simply want satisfaction with the games they play especially in what they want as they gamble. And IMO, 21 must be the limit to somehow prevent the illegalities whenever they would be asked where their money came from.

[batang_bitcoin]

We will never know what these kids are doing if they are infront of the computer or outside our homes if we are not with them. Just like us, during our kid days, we are doing crazy things that we are not letting our parents know so this could be something that's really happening in some places.
And for that country that made it legal, it's their decision to do it as they know more what their society is tackling. We have no idea if the cases like this is rampant there or just made it for fairness or solution for it as an existing problem.

It's not true that parents can't control their children and know what they are doing. Today they are many tools to cut the access for some sites like gambling or porn sites. And parents are responsible for their children behaviour.
I'm not for the idea that gambling is legal for children and minors. Why wouldn't we then also allow them to smoke and drink alcohol?

It's applicable for those people that are aware of this and can think of disabling suc websites that the parents don't want to access. But for those parents that didn't know that there are tools like those, they will never think that it's possible unless they become curious and ask somebody who's more knowledgeable about them in blocking websites. Otherwise, they will be having the hard time to track their kids activity over the internet if the kids are better than the parents accessing the computer. Not every parent is techy and only wants to give their kids the best even computers or smartphones.

[FontSeli]

Another thought occurred to me that children under 18 years of age should first of all be controlled by their parents. Each of us should know what their children are doing on the Internet, and also need to explain what such games are fraught with. For children who do not yet have their own Bank accounts, it will be difficult to make a Deposit at the casino and they will not be able to play there.

well I know that but for ages under 18 will still try to make money anyhow, if they don't have a bank account to make a withdrawal they will use a bank from their parents, because I saw my own friend like that, he did gambling at the age of under 18 and do not have their own savings, only allowance is set aside from school to do gambling.

There are various software tools that can restrict children's access to online casinos and other undesirable sites. I set up my own block lists for my children. For those parents who do not know how to do this - there are completely ready-made solutions.

[ampere]

I think there is already an age limit set for gambling, if you look through several gambling websites; they always have this column that verifies that you are 18 and above years old before you can proceed to use their platform. What i think should come into play is the implementation of the age limit rule. In a decentralized internet world; a 12 year old boy can click on the column and claim to be 18 years of age and there won't be anyone to dispute it.

So the thing is, how can the gambling webpage see to it that the age limit to gamble and use their website is strictly followed ?

[BuNga_cute]

Even though all gambling sites use an age limit when registering, but if there is no KYC procedure it is very difficult to ensure
that people are register is really over 18 years old. Because not everyone has the awareness to obey these age limit rules. But
if the gambling site enforces KYC it will certainly reduce its users. Because everyone wants to have privacy.

[deisik]

So the thing is, how can the gambling webpage see to it that the age limit to gamble and use their website is strictly followed?

As I understand it, this minimum age is to avoid legal complications

The truth is, casinos don't care so much about your real age (whatever that might be) as about avoiding legal issues. So if you are 12 years old and agree that you are over 18, you or your parents (a caretaker or a legal guardian) cannot drag the casino to court on the basis of allowing people under age to gamble. Put differently, gambling operators are not going to take it any further unless they are forced by the law

[mersal]

Even though all gambling sites use an age limit when registering, but if there is no KYC procedure it is very difficult to ensure
that people are register is really over 18 years old. Because not everyone has the awareness to obey these age limit rules. But
if the gambling site enforces KYC it will certainly reduce its users. Because everyone wants to have privacy.

Not really, even it is easy to pass KYC restrictions by an under aged players with a fake documents so its little more work from the player side to gamble and if they really want they will go for it.But why gambling sites need to make things complicate all they are looking for is profit so they will just ask everyone who register there about their age limit is over the legal age and if they click agree then gambling sites have no legal issues to met.

[Barnabe]

I have heard that gambling addiction in children could cause several problems in adulthood (less intellectual development and/or little self-control in their lives).
If that is the case, gambling should only be allowed when the brain structure is mature enough not to be disturbed by it.

[BITCOIN4X]

I have heard that gambling addiction in children could cause several problems in adulthood (less intellectual development and/or little self-control in their lives).
If that is the case, gambling should only be allowed when the brain structure is mature enough not to be disturbed by it.

I think gambling should get an age limit especially for children under 15 year. Generally children get money from their parent because they cant get it themselves by working and if the money is misused then I think something is wrong with their thinking. For children who are growing up, gambling is not the right thing for them and if its my child then I will forbid it. There are time when they do it and when they are adult and can make their own money because they will determine their own way of life.

[AicecreaME]

There is one important question we have to ask:

What age does categorize a person to be mature enough to Gamble ?

-18?
-21?

To be honest, your question is very misleading or should I say confusing instead. When you said "to be matured enough to gamble", it's like you were saying that they are obligated to gamble when they reached the age you mentioned, so here's my opinion.

A person once he reached 18 or 21, he shouldn't have really playing gambling, I guess what you were trying to say is that he is allowed to be inform or educate what is gambling, so on and so forth. And that is when the right of freedom to choose will be claimed or do, whether he will play gambling out of curiosity or he won't cause testimony and real life stories about gamblers is enough for him to be scared and leave the gamblig world alone.

[Lordhermes]

In my country Nigeria, we have a fix age for every young adults to be qualified for everything. Most of time restrictions to some certain things are done from the age of 17 downward. The age limit of 18 and above are fully qualified to place a bet, gamble casinos of any type.
Now, we in an era of technology where underage has access to phones and laptops who can snickly play a lot of gambling in the internet, however,we can't can't really fix out the age limit with digital gamblers but with physical gamblers.

[GDragon]

So the thing is, how can the gambling webpage see to it that the age limit to gamble and use their website is strictly followed?

As I understand it, this minimum age is to avoid legal complications

The truth is, casinos don't care so much about your real age (whatever that might be) as about avoiding legal issues. So if you are 12 years old and agree that you are over 18, you or your parents (a caretaker or a legal guardian) cannot drag the casino to court on the basis of allowing people under age to gamble. Put differently, gambling operators are not going to take it any further unless they are forced by the law

This is what I've been telling too, they won't even bother putting it as a requirement if no one really requires them to. They just do it for the sake of complying legally to the terms they need for them to operate.

We are just the people who are concerned if some kid really fake their age to play on those online gambling sites. Those casino's won't waste their time double checking if their players are really qualified, as long as those players can play and be a gambler to their site, they won't really care.

[perfect999]

I strongly agree that there must be an age limit for playing gambling. Because gambling activities that can make someone addicted
and of course gambling also includes high-risk activities.

I agree too because at young age if someone is addicted to gambling they fail to focus on studies and they are basically trying to earn in the age that they are meant to learn.

Then the age of 21 is someone considered an adult and can think logically.

I don't like to say it but near my house there was a robbery and the person when caught was only 19 years old and he was too mature and wise enough, so I don't think 21 is the right number (maybe 17 or 18 is) because the kids of today grow rather quickly than some expect and a lot of criminals are left on bail because of being a minor but in reality they are mature enough and should be punished.