A Nigerian Father Rejects Son's Gambling Win

[acroman08]

So that makes me to think how people look or see or think of gambling. Is gambling a bad thing to do?

it's not, but people will have their own views about gambling.

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

personally, I think he is wrong. he is trying to waste money that they could use. I don't know their financial situation but $83k is a huge amount of money and it would be a dumb idea to follow what the father is suggesting. they are also living in a developing country, this money could literally change their family's lives.

Father must have money and can provide for his family. He Wouldn't act that way if they don't have enough. Or maybe the father is really a disciplinarian and wanted the boy to stop gambling as well.

or the dad is a religious man and believes that money that comes from gambling is a sin. I've seen and heard people voice out their dislike towards gambling because of their religion.

[Finestream]

I can’t say his father was right nor wrong in his decision. I guess the father is just very strict when it comes to rules and standards and have always seen gambling as a bad habit from the start. And maybe he’s not in badly need for money so he can easily reject even if it has the ability to bring a lot of changes in their family. I just hope he’ll realized that gambling is not that bad after all.

[Wakate]

A boy won #38,000,000 ($82340.19) with just #400 ($0.87) and when the boy brought home his win, the biological father of the boy rejected the money because it was gotten from gambling. So that makes me to think how people look or see or think of gambling. Is gambling a bad thing to do? As for me gambling is not a bad something but the individual can be bad and also the way you present yourself in the society can also tell people about your personality.

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

Maybe the father can still have a rethink and bring the money to me. I would not reject the boy at all...adopting him immediately would be my next decision 😂. This story is just too funny to me and here we have consistent gamblers trying hard to earn from betting by winning big profits like this one and here is a man that has a son that was lucky enough to make this kind of winning. If the parent of the boy still insist of him returning the money then, he can rather give the money to the family members or people that needed the fund than allowing the boy to retune the money.

[Huppercase]

A boy won #38,000,000 ($82340.19) with just #400 ($0.87) and when the boy brought home his win, the biological father of the boy rejected the money because it was gotten from gambling. So that makes me to think how people look or see or think of gambling. Is gambling a bad thing to do? As for me gambling is not a bad something but the individual can be bad and also the way you present yourself in the society can also tell people about your personality.

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

There is more to this story, no father will ever reject what there son got for them. It is either the father is been Religious or the famliy bond was never there since they one. You know the muslims forbid people that indulge in gamling, if indeed the father is a muslim or Islam by religion, the father reason is justify because he didn't want to go against his religion is nothing to be question, as long as the son is not stop from spending his money, the father decisions need to be progected, and it could be that the father is not move by materialistic things, we have people like that, I understand the father action.

[goldkingcoiner]

A boy won #38,000,000 ($82340.19) with just #400 ($0.87) and when the boy brought home his win, the biological father of the boy rejected the money because it was gotten from gambling. So that makes me to think how people look or see or think of gambling. Is gambling a bad thing to do? As for me gambling is not a bad something but the individual can be bad and also the way you present yourself in the society can also tell people about your personality.

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

What kind of idiotic, ideologically-driven poor excuse of a father acts like this? He should have shown his son support while explaining to him the dangers of gambling. He should have given his son to understand that this win was a rare 1-in-lifetime event. So that the kid would not end up chasing his gambling win from his past days.

Money might not be the most important thing in life but that father definitely did not teach his child a valuable lesson. Rather I think that the son will now learn that gambling can be very rewarding and it is best to keep secrets from his father. Thats not a good lesson.

I wonder what a licensed psychologist would have to say about this matter, though...

[Fivestar4everMVP]

We never can really understand the motive driving the man though, maybe he does not believe that money made from gambling is pure money, maybe his faith outrightly condemns gambling, but whatever the man's reason be, the fact remains that that boy is a very lucky dude, he should probably move away from home for the main time, possibly quit gambling and especially a big business, maybe by doing this, he can gain his father's love ones again.

[rahmad2nd]

I can’t say his father was right nor wrong in his decision. I guess the father is just very strict when it comes to rules and standards and have always seen gambling as a bad habit from the start. And maybe he’s not in badly need for money so he can easily reject even if it has the ability to bring a lot of changes in their family. I just hope he’ll realized that gambling is not that bad after all.

So far, what we've been told in this case is just assumptions and speculation. in fact, we don't know why the father refused his son's prize money. maybe, not because of the money from the gambling. but more precisely as you said that the father did not really need money so he refused gifts from the child. but the stigma of rejection, can portray the bad side of gambling.

So far, no hypothesis is really close to the truth. cause we have no other sources than short stories of what the OP posted in this thread. automatically this story reaps various responses from the community, whether it's leading to a belief that involves religion, or various other reasons as expressed by friends in this thread. but what is certain, in fact, whatever the reason behind the refusal. everything is the full right and decision of the father, he has a will of his own, regardless of anything that is a question for all of us for this refusal.

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How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

Maybe his father was a religious person in whose religion gambling is illegal, and he was not wrong to refuse the money his son gave him. The child should also understand that his father, even though he is a poor person, still upholds the moral principles set by his religion and his son should respect his father's decision to refuse the money he gives. Because not all poor people in this world want to receive money from illicit proceeds, even though they need money, and maybe their father is one of those people and to be honest, I really salute his father for sticking to the teachings of his religion by not receiving any money from gambling.

As much as the father appears to be religious and believes gambling is sinful, I think he finds it to be incredibly humorous. However, everyone has a right to their own opinion, so if the man does not want the money that is OK. Despite the fact that it is challenging to win and that after winning, you ask me to return the money. Except if you become hooked to it, gambling is not something I view as wrong once you become addicted, it may wreck you. And if the child is an adult, I believe he should be given the freedom to decide for himself whether or not he wants the money, rather than the father imposing such a choice on his behave.

[Bananington]

What kind of idiotic, ideologically-driven poor excuse of a father acts like this? He should have shown his son support while explaining to him the dangers of gambling. He should have given his son to understand that this win was a rare 1-in-lifetime event. So that the kid would not end up chasing his gambling win from his past days.

It becomes the father's loss if the son decides to keep the money he has won, and that is the most likely decision that he would take. The father who would have had some share of the money will now be left out of it when the son decides to keep it and that will also come in-between their father and son relationship. The father will say his son disobeyed him. If it is the Man's principle not to gamble, he should know that his son is not like him. He can tell his son that he wants nothing from the money, not wanting the Son who will be a man soon to return the money.

[TheGreatPython]

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

This isn't about whether the father is right or not. This is about the father trying to save the future of his son. A male child who is living with his parents and is into gambling may still be less than eighteen and that is underaged betting. Imagine if this boy starts gambling at this age what belongs of him and his future. He should be out there learning a skill or acquiring some education that will improve his odds at succeeding in life and not the meagre money he has won from sports betting.

If the dad didn't do that, then he would have passed a message to his son that it okay to gamble and waste his time at a betshop when he knows that he should be out there chasing his dreams. Great parenting  if you ask me.

That's probably right and it looks totally the correct move from a father figure to his son in order to school him about how bad gambling can be and that no matter how much one might have won at a time, it can still ruin one's life if the frequent interactions with a casino turn into an addiction when he grows up, that will probably be a nightmare for his father to see his son in that situation.

Parents will always do the best for their children and they won't change their minds only for money since money might buy everything and give them a better life but being parents, the happiness is to see their children grow responsible and become something in their lives.

[LDL]

Since his father has ordered his son to pay back the gambling money in full, this view suggests that his father will not spend the profits earned from gambling on his family activities. In this case gambling is totally prohibited from religious point of view and income from gambling is identified as black money from corruption point of view. So his father ordered his son to return the ill-gotten gambling money to the gambling authorities.

[Doan9269]

I can’t say his father was right nor wrong in his decision. I guess the father is just very strict when it comes to rules and standards and have always seen gambling as a bad habit from the start. And maybe he’s not in badly need for money so he can easily reject even if it has the ability to bring a lot of changes in their family. I just hope he’ll realized that gambling is not that bad after all.

We can't actually go against our parents wish, maybe the child has not being behaving well before time that makes him lacks a good rapport with the father and the father never rely a trust in him because of his way of life, how could you expect him to accept such from the child when he's not even sure if he truly win the money through gambling or stole it together with friends he hangs around with, which makes me think that it could be possible for the father to accept the money if he had rely his trust on his as one that takes his life serious.

[dothebeats]

The father has principles, that's what I can see from here, and it's actually a good thing because he can educate his son whenever he wants to, and he's not coming from a place of hypocrisy but rather principles and beliefs. The son has all the right in the world to do what he thinks is best for the money. Personally, I wouldn't return it to the betting company but rather I will use that money to setup my small business and profit from there. The father might still see that as something that he's not going to approve as it's still using the money from the gambling proceeds but in this day and age, principles can only get you so far and you still have to do things in order to survive.

Kudos to the father for having principles, but the man who won the money should decide for himself on whether or not he's going to use the money or not.

[Rigon]

A boy won #38,000,000 ($82340.19) with just #400 ($0.87) and when the boy brought home his win, the biological father of the boy rejected the money because it was gotten from gambling. So that makes me to think how people look or see or think of gambling. Is gambling a bad thing to do? As for me gambling is not a bad something but the individual can be bad and also the way you present yourself in the society can also tell people about your personality.

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

Whatever father does is surely good for a child. A father never wants his child's bad intentions he always wants his child's good. Gambling is viewed differently in different countries. But in the country I live in, gambling is seen as cursed. All the people I have seen from childhood who participated in gambling have lived very badly. They could never spend their days in peace with their families. It is better for a person to stay away from gambling as much as possible. Because gambling can destroy people completely. Here this boy's father rejected him by not accepting his gambling money. His father may be a pious person he doesn't like all these things at all. I think his father gave him a fitting reply. If the boy stops gambling because of his father's strict prohibition, I think he can live happily ever after with his winnings.

[xSkylarx]

I can’t say his father was right nor wrong in his decision. I guess the father is just very strict when it comes to rules and standards and have always seen gambling as a bad habit from the start. And maybe he’s not in badly need for money so he can easily reject even if it has the ability to bring a lot of changes in their family. I just hope he’ll realized that gambling is not that bad after all.

We can't actually go against our parents wish, maybe the child has not being behaving well before time that makes him lacks a good rapport with the father and the father never rely a trust in him because of his way of life, how could you expect him to accept such from the child when he's not even sure if he truly win the money through gambling or stole it together with friends he hangs around with, which makes me think that it could be possible for the father to accept the money if he had rely his trust on his as one that takes his life serious.

That is also the possibility that the father don't trust his child as he thinks that it came from illegal things and not on gambling , but again we cant conclude on anything as we only have few things on it and there are no clue on why it is and how the child won it , the final thoughts on this really is his father doesn't want it and not all wants money that coming from gambling ,even in our selves we accept it but to him he doesn't want it.

[Oshosondy]

That is also the possibility that the father don't trust his child as he thinks that it came from illegal things and not on gambling

It can be traced. I mean the betting sites, the amount won and how he won the high amount of money can be traced. If it is online, it can be traced. If it is offline, using betting agent, it can also be traced. So I do not think his father rejected the money becusee he did not trust the child. Even if he has a kind of child that do steal from him, the bet won can change the whole thing.

What I thought about the matter is what I have said before, that his father may not take religion as a joke at all, and can be one of the extremists type of people. I have noticed that some Muslim fathers can do this as they are ready to oppose what their religion against.

[fullhdpixel]

I am not sure about this story. There are too many loose ends. First of all, if the boy is minor then he can't receive the winnings. He is under 18 years of age and that is against the terms and conditions (he claims to be 19-years old, but that is debatable). In such case, the game will be declared as invalid and the winning will be nullified. So even if his father accepts the win, they are not going to get anything. And secondly, is it even possible to have a 100,000x bet? I have seen bets up to 1,000x, but anything more than that exists only in folklore.

And the picture looks fake too, or maybe it was not the actual pic of the characters in the story? The age of the boy is not mentioned but if it's true that he is under age. It will still depend on the gambling company because some might allow minor and not all countries has the same legal age.

In crypto or online gambling, people on any age are mostly free to gamble. Maybe this is where the boy gamble? Like it or not, the money is already received by the boy and he already tell his father about it but the response that he got is not really pleasant. A 100k multiplier is possible. There is even 1 million or more multiplier. I think you are still a newbie in gambling to not know it.

[Raflesia]

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

It depends on the actual perspective.
There is nothing wrong with gambling money in this case, but indeed for some people something like this will definitely cause controversy, especially for those related to spirituality and belief.
In some conditions, in my area, this kind of thing still happens a lot because parents believe that money from gambling, which is actually not allowed, according to them, has no benefits, which actually creates a condition where we get bad luck in the end.
It may happen to the father though in this case he may need it but he has a degree of discipline for gambling money because he may not gamble either.
Regardless of right or wrong, everyone has their own views on this matter and indeed we also cannot justify or blame the father's determination to refuse the money because he has his own commitments.

There are people who would really stick into their principle on which no matter how small or big the amount that they do get from gambling but if it does really involved on things which you do really prohibit or something that you cant deal off with then for sure you would really be having those impressions.It is really just that impossible though that someone could really just simply reject specially we are talking some significant amounts of money on here.This does proves out that there are really still people who cant be bought and just sticking into their principles on what they do believe on.

It can still happen and the proof is for this father because indeed he still refuses even though it really can support their life but he insists on holding back that desire and actually in my opinion it deserves appreciation. because indeed principles like this can be said to be quite rare at the moment and I cannot have strong principles like this for now.

Yes, this is really matter of someones choice whether they would really be exchanging those things by money or not.It is really just that sad for that boy since he couldnt be able to enter into their house
with those money with him. I doubt that it would really be given back into that betting company but of course there would be no options left for that boy to do but actually he could just simply keep those
money in secret and would be telling that he had given it back to make things look right at least and the he had already the savings.  

After all, it already belongs to the child, regardless of what the father refused, it is the right of the child, now it depends on him, because of course he is also an adult and it's time for him to think from now on for his future. I think with this condition it would be a little naive for the kid to give back to the company for the victory he achieved. His father just refused the money, doesn't mean he forbade the child to have it, right?

[serjent05]

How do you see the father?

This kind of story looks like a made-up story since I read many instances like this online just to bring a real world case scenario of gambling to people virtue.

Yeah, the story sounds like the story in the drama series where the protagonist experiences extraordinary luck and then the people behind him do not believe.

I think the Father decision on this case might be based on religion or philosophy since I have a pastor that declined our church member money offering that came from a lottery win. Maybe the father on the story is holding in to something that makes gambling profit bad.

I think the father has enough money to feed himself and that the guy and his father has a misunderstanding and the father does not want any of the son's winnings due to pride.  I do not think that there is such a person that will deny a fortune due to personal belief let alone it is coming from his son's effort (betting is an effort you know)

Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

On practicality, A money is a money so he should accept the money especially if they are poor since the son only risk very small amount just to get it. But in father perspective or if you are viewing this with same ideology then I think the decision is right since it’s based on what’s your life guidelines to determine good and bad.

It is his right to reject his son's money, wether it is ethical or not depends on the belief of a person.  For me it is morally right to reject anything from an activity the a person believe as evil.

[Fatunad]

That is also the possibility that the father don't trust his child as he thinks that it came from illegal things and not on gambling

It can be traced. I mean the betting sites, the amount won and how he won the high amount of money can be traced. If it is online, it can be traced. If it is offline, using betting agent, it can also be traced. So I do not think his father rejected the money becusee he did not trust the child. Even if he has a kind of child that do steal from him, the bet won can change the whole thing.

What I thought about the matter is what I have said before, that his father may not take religion as a joke at all, and can be one of the extremists type of people. I have noticed that some Muslim fathers can do this as they are ready to oppose what their religion against.

And this would really be hard decision for his son to make whether he would choses to give back those winnings or would really be keeping it by himself considering that it isnt small and would really be a secret and would gradually be spending it since his father couldnt really accept that it do came from gambling.There are really people who are that extremist or really that purely devoted into their religion on which committing against the principle is something that they couldnt do. It might sound foolish but there are people who could really be able to stick on what they do believe and what they do really want to follow.
There's nothing we can do with that and this is would be actually be depending into his son on how he would be handling this one out. So the best thing is to keep it secret and
let those amounts be stored on whatever ways he would be intending to do so.