Gambling awareness for adolescents

[Fundamentals Of]

This is a good thing. It is good that there is such a charity in the UK that is spreading awareness about gambling and how it could impact people's lives. It is also very strategic that the targeted age is adolescence. These are the youth who are about to leave childhood and face adulthood. It would be very important that they are already formed properly before taking responsibilities for themselves and their personal lives. Young people should know about gambling implications before becoming gamblers themselves. 

[qwertyup23]

Of course, every concept against Gambling is very good, but not sure how effective it is as we have seen the gambling addiction numbers is still way high in every country. Not just for ordinary gamblers, but we have seen a lot of sport athletes dabbing themselves in gambling and how much people around them advise to control themselves it's going to be very difficult. Hopefully though, with this kind of programs, young adults could be successfully swayed against the potential ill effects of gambling.

I do think it is better to have some sort of initiative rather than just leaving it unnoticed. The fact that UK government has recognized the potential risks and harm of gambling says a lot about its impact on the health and livelihood of the youth on their country. With this kind of program, while it may not completely prevent gambling addiction, it provides an extra layer of security against it.

Nowadays, lots of programs have been created against gambling addiction. There are also programs which promote gambling awareness especially to the youth in which their curiosity might spark their interest on it.

[bitzizzix]

Everything that is aimed at awareness and good things in my opinion is a very noble concern because their initiative realizes that gambling is not good for them, and effective or not at least can minimize gambling addicts.
and I'm sure such ideas will evolve over time and will improve what needs to be added and new ways to improve their plans to be effective and successful and I really support it and for the future of young people.

[traderethereum]

It is a good initiative from them to increase the awareness from the young generation about the danger of gambling.
Maybe it is too early to say that but at least, it can give the young generation can share/discuss/tell their story to the right community that can help them to solve their problem in gambling.
That program can also help to solve the other addicting problem that happens in the young generation so they can get the solution and not keep it for themselves.
If it succeeds, the other city or country will try to reduplicate or study more details about that to help the young generation.
In the long-term, hopefully, it can reduce the number of people who are addicted to gambling, especially to the young generation.

[btc78]

UK charity Gambling with Lives has created what it describes as “a ground-breaking new youth education programme”.
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What do you think about this initiative??
https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13127/gambling-with-lives-launches-new-gambling-education-programme

UK is really serious in dealing with gambling in their region , they are facing the gambling area with dedication and now even for youngsters they are getting ready earlier .
While other region is even pushing gambling the younger the players is , because those days are the stage that gamblers can become addicted and this will be the advantage and profiting for the site.

[danherbias07]

I like it. If it cannot be prevented thru force then just educate them. It's a different era of kids now and you don't want them being a rebels just because you didn't agree with them. I think just the proper lesson will make them think twice about gambling in an early stage of their life.
Traditional discipline is not working anymore because gambling sites are accessible thru their smartphones and a lot of gambling sites just ask if you are 18+ you will just have to pick YES and you are in.
Perhaps there should also be an education for parents on how they could handle this situations in a peaceful manner.

[YOSHIE]

What do you think about this initiative??
https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13127/gambling-with-lives-launches-new-gambling-education-programme

I read about the educational programs that certain schools in Ireland are doing, for young people.

I can only draw one conclusion as said by: @James Grimes.

But education is not enough

This is a very important point to determine whether the program is successful or not, the meaning of the word above is broad.


For me for this program to run well there are factors that must be considered.
1. The parent factor, this is the main and most important role, schools and parents must work together in raising awareness of gambling for young people.
2. Factors of promiscuity, environment, friends and economy, at school alone are not enough to realize them about the risks of gambling, where children with promiscuity by wanting to have more money, they will make instant income for their income in promiscuity, what's more now online gambling has mushroomed on the internet.
3. The basic factor, if young people have studied gambling what else they have played and made a win, then the desire will appear again outside of school and want to repeat it and try it again.

If these factors are still in the minds of young people, it is very difficult to implement a gambling awareness program for them, the solution is to prevent these factors regularly and filter the internet for those young people.

I think it's a little difficult to do a gambling awareness education program for young people, in terms of development, promiscuity, friends, environment, especially for a developing country like Northern Ireland.

[ralle14]

Showing the downsides of gambling is good given that it could quickly escalate and affect someone's life, its something that should be taken seriously because once you're in that situation it's very difficult to break the habit.

As what yoshi mentioned this awareness might not fully be effective in stopping future gamblers but imo it's better to do something rather than nothing at all even though it won't help every adolescent it's still a good stepping stone to learn how disruptive gambling addiction could be in someone's life.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

The family is largely to blame for the involvement of children adolescents and young people in gambling. If teenagers are not aware of this time their next life will be more destructive raise awareness they need to be educated highlight the bad aspects of it and urge the use of family and social education to protect adolescents and young people, as well as the social movement to stop gambling.

Totally agree, they should be the one responsible for creating a contributing member of the society. And they're the one's that molds the kid in their formative years. Also, we need to fix the education system because it's not catering everyone since it's a one size fits all style of teaching.

[Oasisman]

As far as the effectiveness of this gambling education is concerned will always depends on the person/teacher's way of introducing what gambling is and how he's going to pave his way on things to discuss that discourages the students to get involved on irresponsible gambling in the future. Though the aim is to educate, but it's always inevitable for an adult not to get hooked up with gambling once he had an enjoyable experience. So, their might be a little bit words of discouragement to gamble.
The best possible way to tackle this is to educate the young students how to manage their finances first, and how to save for the future, then everything will follow suit when they knew how important it is to save and be responsible for all the expenses made in a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Media sources adopt a stance where they portray gambling as containing risk. While stock markets, asset trading, FOREX, business investments and similar things are portrayed to be "safe" containing no risk.

It might be more fair to educate youth as to everything in life containing various degrees of risk. Which people must learn to cope with. Rather than illustrate an inaccurate picture of risk being found only in gambling.

The 2008 economic crisis showed how risk is present in normalized jobs, financial markets and the economy which are supposed to be "safe" and "secure".

This quiet war being waged against gambling doesn't make a ton of sense to me. The poor and homeless have far bigger issues than gambling. Substance and drug abuse are rampant. It simply doesn't make sense for gambling to attacked the way it is IMO.

Lol. You are right.

To me, educating young people to warn them of the dangers of gambling reminds me of educating them to warn them of the dangers of drugs. It was a program that had little, if any, effect. Perhaps a general approach to the risks of life would be better, as Hydrogen comments.

The problem today is the new technologies, which allow impulsive young people to play at the click of a button from anywhere (this could be applied to gambling as well as forex etc).

[Saint-loup]

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What do you think about this initiative??
https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13127/gambling-with-lives-launches-new-gambling-education-programme

and covers basics about gambling, including understanding odds, risk and the “house edge”.

If like says its name, it really educates young people to gambling then it can't be a bad thing. But if it's just a sanctimonious program rehashing gambling is bad, gambling is the devil like a religious speech, then it will only bring hate without efficiency.

[Baofeng]

I hope other countries will follow this.
Always remember that "Prevention is always better than cure". Especially in gambling, we all know how risky it is and what is the effect of it for those people who don't have control, it will rekt your life.
With discouraging gambling to people, it will help them to avoid and not try gambling for sure, good move.

Yeah, I think even in our country we have this kind of program, but not sure how effective it is though. The pandemic has somewhat increase in record numbers the gamblers around the world. For example, we have this "online sabong", that is making a lot of young people getting into gambling. And it's a dilemma for our government, because according to the President, he allow it because they needed money to sustain them in this pandemic. Anyway, wish that this initiative could really be emulate by other nations.

[zanezane]

The family is largely to blame for the involvement of children adolescents and young people in gambling. If teenagers are not aware of this time their next life will be more destructive raise awareness they need to be educated highlight the bad aspects of it and urge the use of family and social education to protect adolescents and young people, as well as the social movement to stop gambling.

They can't be aware of this if even their parents don't even care about them, as you've said, the family is largely to be blamed in this scenario because they are the one responsible for the child in their formative and teenage years.

[michellee]

The UK government should give appreciations for the step from the UK charity with Lives that cares for the young generations, especially for them who know to gamble and playing gambling many times or have an addiction to gambling. It will give more supports to that charity institution or other institution to give more help to solve the gambling addiction. We know that the young generation is susceptible to something that they do not fully understand and with that help, that can give them knowledge about gambling. At least, this can help them to cure the addiction and if need to go to rehabilitation, they can ask for that from the charity or go to the government to ask for help.

[alegotardo]

What do you think about this initiative??

I think every effort by governments to prevent people from falling into gambling is welcome.
We have seen this sector grow exponentially and, along with it, advertising in every corner of the internet and also in stadiums and streets.
It's good that the government knows how to use taxes from this sector wisely for prevention campaigns like this.

I also hope that it bears good results and isn't just another expenditure of public money.

[OgNasty]

What do you think about this initiative??
https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13127/gambling-with-lives-launches-new-gambling-education-programme

I think it's a horrible initiative that will likely lead to those being exposed to it falling victim to higher than average gambling addiction rates.  Who knows though, they could be doing it from a much more educated perspective and in a way that will lead to responsible gambling for entertainment.  Still, you can't help but feel like children should be sheltered a bit from the vices of the world until they're old enough to be able to handle the responsibility. 

[mu_enrico]

I still think that school should only teach science and stuff, and problems like sex, drug, gambling, etc. (about morality) are still in the parents' domain. However, especially for gambling, it uses math and can be explained in math class, and the addiction (endorphins et al., can also be explained in biology/chemistry classes) so not really necessary to burden students with more topic. Most of the time, this kind of material, like sex education only be used as a joke/meme, remember? Hence, I don't think it can make a big difference.

[Kittygalore]

I still think that school should only teach science and stuff, and problems like sex, drug, gambling, etc. (about morality) are still in the parents' domain. However, especially for gambling, it uses math and can be explained in math class, and the addiction (endorphins et al., can also be explained in biology/chemistry classes) so not really necessary to burden students with more topic. Most of the time, this kind of material, like sex education only be used as a joke/meme, remember? Hence, I don't think it can make a big difference.

It's much more helpful if it's taught both sides, look at sex education, it can help that people understand sexuality and get curious and that's where the parents come in and tell them what they need to know about sex and how it's no t going to be good for their future if they don't do it the right way and without thinking straight. Same with gambling, I think that a diversified opinion will help the kid grow his/her critical thinking skill so that they can make or formulate their own decisions as they grow older.

[DoublerHunter]

I still think that school should only teach science and stuff, and problems like sex, drug, gambling, etc. (about morality) are still in the parents' domain. However, especially for gambling, it uses math and can be explained in math class, and the addiction (endorphins et al., can also be explained in biology/chemistry classes) so not really necessary to burden students with more topic. Most of the time, this kind of material, like sex education only be used as a joke/meme, remember? Hence, I don't think it can make a big difference.

It's much more helpful if it's taught both sides, look at sex education, it can help that people understand sexuality and get curious and that's where the parents come in and tell them what they need to know about sex and how it's no t going to be good for their future if they don't do it the right way and without thinking straight. Same with gambling, I think that a diversified opinion will help the kid grow his/her critical thinking skill so that they can make or formulate their own decisions as they grow older.

^ I think that you are right, this can help to educate young people who did not know the consequences of gambling, not to be exposed but it is an awareness, a knowledge towards gambling of what it is, not talking about money that they can earn but the risk if they will join without a stable income. But in the end, is their choice and their responsibility not to be addicted to any kind of this possible addictive activity. In school, we have an Economics subject which teaches us and educates us about family control, avoid drug addiction and relatively there is no difference in gambling awareness.