Gambling by financial dependents.

[Weawant]

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

My advice would be you shouldn't force him to stop gambling or you'll regret how it'll turn out, he is eligible to gamble since he is 18years and that's the years many countries consider their citizens to be adult so your nephew is an adult and he should be allowed to gamble.

Since he's still a student, you guys should monitor him and try to stop him if he's over gambling or getting addicted. He shouldn't take gambling as a full time job as that doesn't always end well. You can monitor where he's getting the money from so he doesn't start stealing.

His gambling career is still early so he'll be enjoying it, you have to advice him so he doesn't get carried away by the profits and he should saved so he doesn't always depends on gambling profits to have money. Your nephew is becoming a man so he need his own income.

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[Docnaster]

It's absolutely unwise for a financial dependent to gamble and should be condemned by anyoone who's around such person. Over the years, I've seen very young people who are still surviving with the financial assistance of their parents or guardians use money that was meant for something very serious like school fees, money meant hospital bills and sometimes money that was given to them to go and buy food items using such money to gamble.
They end up losing the financial trust of their parents and guardians because of their very silly decisions to gamble with those money.

[South Park]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

My opinion is that he must stop, while he is above the minimum age to gamble, the money he is using for that is the money he is receiving from his mother, money that was obviously not for gambling and had other intentions behind it, now if he was working a part-time job and he was using the money that he has earned on his own my posture will be the opposite, as that would be money that he earned by himself and no one should have the right to tell him how to spend his money as long as it is legal for him to gamble.

[Oilacris]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

My opinion is that he must stop, while he is above the minimum age to gamble, the money he is using for that is the money he is receiving from his mother, money that was obviously not for gambling and had other intentions behind it, now if he was working a part-time job and he was using the money that he has earned on his own my posture will be the opposite, as that would be money that he earned by himself and no one should have the right to tell him how to spend his money as long as it is legal for him to gamble.

If his mother is really that serious on making his son quit gambling then better cut-off that source of funds or money that he has,
but of course it would be having those possible implications if she would tend to do so, this is why its really hard to make out decisions in here part.

1. Totally able to get rid of gambling activity due to lack or no money to play with
2. Would be doing illegal things and possibly be stealing into other people because they are really that
planning to play even more.

Just like been said that this what makes decisions even more harder and should really be taking up the consideration because it could really be only having that two possible outcome.
So i do agree on some points that it would really be just that better if you do have that serious talks in between your child and made him realize that everything should
really be in control and really be careful on dealing with gambling.

[serjent05]

It's absolutely unwise for a financial dependent to gamble and should be condemned by anyoone who's around such person. Over the years, I've seen very young people who are still surviving with the financial assistance of their parents or guardians use money that was meant for something very serious like school fees, money meant hospital bills and sometimes money that was given to them to go and buy food items using such money to gamble.
They end up losing the financial trust of their parents and guardians because of their very silly decisions to gamble with those money.

I highly agree, those financial dependent found gambling should be condemned and be thought of avoiding gambling activity.  If I am the parent, I will ground them cutting their allowances.  Since they have the audacity to gamble the money I work hard for, it only means that they are not lacking and maybe I have given them too much making them spend the extra on gambling.

After the duration of grounding and allowance cutting, I will talk to them seriously and tell them the reason of the punishment and make them see the importance of giving value to the money that is given to them.

[danherbias07]

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

My advice would be you shouldn't force him to stop gambling or you'll regret how it'll turn out, he is eligible to gamble since he is 18years and that's the years many countries consider their citizens to be adult so your nephew is an adult and he should be allowed to gamble.

Since he's still a student, you guys should monitor him and try to stop him if he's over gambling or getting addicted. He shouldn't take gambling as a full time job as that doesn't always end well. You can monitor where he's getting the money from so he doesn't start stealing.

His gambling career is still early so he'll be enjoying it, you have to advice him so he doesn't get carried away by the profits and he should saved so he doesn't always depends on gambling profits to have money. Your nephew is becoming a man so he need his own income.

That's the problem because according to OP the money that had been used by the kid is not from his own pocket or his job. He is still a dependent kid who uses the money of his parents for his own gambling activity? So, why not stop him? It would be better to be clear to him that he should be using his own money from his own blood and sweat work. That way he would feel that whenever he will lose he will regret the idea of doing it. But, as for now, he won't have those kinds of emotions because he knows he can get more money afterward.
He should learn his lessons on how the financial world works because if this keeps on it would be a bigger mess. The chances of him stealing are high because he lacks knowledge of the importance of money.

[tusandii]

It's absolutely unwise for a financial dependent to gamble and should be condemned by anyoone who's around such person. Over the years, I've seen very young people who are still surviving with the financial assistance of their parents or guardians use money that was meant for something very serious like school fees, money meant hospital bills and sometimes money that was given to them to go and buy food items using such money to gamble.
They end up losing the financial trust of their parents and guardians because of their very silly decisions to gamble with those money.

There are lots of young people who are also students who are fond of gambling and of course most of them only rely on money given by their parents to be used for gambling while their parents give the money to meet their needs as students or school pocket money.
It's a shame that those who should be the next generation actually like or worse become gambling addicts, indeed there are some children who can make their own money such as starting a business because where I live there are quite a lot of young people who are still in school starting to learn to do business to make money but if they are already familiar with gambling then I can ensure that it will be difficult for them to develop, especially to develop a business that is being pioneered.
There is no way that can be done to stop these youths and the ease of accessing gambling sites actually makes them feel as if they are being facilitated by existing technological developments.

Honestly, I am very concerned about incidents like this but there is not much we can do to stop them and only self-awareness can stop or control these gambling activities.
Maybe if there is socialization and also educational services for youth it can put more pressure on the increasing number of gamblers classified as teenagers or students who are currently mushrooming in every country.

[zuzie]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

Based on your story, I would argue that children are not necessarily responsible gamblers because we as mothers, for example, are not fully aware of what our children do on a day-to-day basis. conversely, today's youth are more likely to be close to their circle of friends, he might be able to trick his parents into playing gambling, if only parents knew that might be the only good way to advise and talk to children, because in my opinion someone who already likes or is addicted to gambling they will not think twice about spending their money, even if it was earned the right way or the wrong way. My advice is to teach the child well how to manage money properly so that in the future the child can make his own money with things that are useful and not self-defeating.

[mindrust]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

That's a very concerning situation. Young people can get addicted to anything very easily (alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling...) and they are stubborn as fuck too. Sometimes they are so unwise and dumb, they think they know everything and that's a recipe for a disaster. She should talk to her son first imo. She should explain why getting addicted to gambling is a bad thing and maybe, this teenager will understand her. There is a small chance but sometimes talking works. Maybe your nephew didn't steal yet but if the situation advances, you'll never know what will happen in the future.

[Wexnident]

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That's a very concerning situation. Young people can get addicted to anything very easily (alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling...) and they are stubborn as fuck too. Sometimes they are so unwise and dumb, they think they know everything and that's a recipe for a disaster. She should talk to her son first imo. She should explain why getting addicted to gambling is a bad thing and maybe, this teenager will understand her. There is a small chance but sometimes talking works. Maybe your nephew didn't steal yet but if the situation advances, you'll never know what will happen in the future.

Let's probably give them the benefit of the doubt, the kid might be pretty knowledgeable for his age, and it's "addiction" that's a bad thing, gambling? Not necessarily. The mother can even help in monitoring so that the kid can be kept properly under control. While it may seem like too controlling, hey what can they do, the kids, well, a kid. I myself started gambling at around 18? 19, and I didn't really have issues. Granted I never continued for like, 4 years (my entire college or so) and only came back to gambling after that.

[ethereumhunter]

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That's a very concerning situation. Young people can get addicted to anything very easily (alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling...) and they are stubborn as fuck too. Sometimes they are so unwise and dumb, they think they know everything and that's a recipe for a disaster. She should talk to her son first imo. She should explain why getting addicted to gambling is a bad thing and maybe, this teenager will understand her. There is a small chance but sometimes talking works. Maybe your nephew didn't steal yet but if the situation advances, you'll never know what will happen in the future.

Let's probably give them the benefit of the doubt, the kid might be pretty knowledgeable for his age, and it's "addiction" that's a bad thing, gambling? Not necessarily. The mother can even help in monitoring so that the kid can be kept properly under control. While it may seem like too controlling, hey what can they do, the kids, well, a kid. I myself started gambling at around 18? 19, and I didn't really have issues. Granted I never continued for like, 4 years (my entire college or so) and only came back to gambling after that.

With all their high curiosity, young people will try something they have never done, including gambling, alcohol, sex, and drugs. But that won't happen to young people who can control themselves, which they learned from a young age and have been given understanding by their parents so they won't do things they might not be allowed to do at their age. And when there are young people who have started gambling, this is worth asking, where did they get to know about gambling and since when did they start gambling.

His parents must convince him that gambling is not good for him mentally and financially and give him the understanding to have other activities to keep him busy. Usually, if young people already have a positive activity, they will try to keep doing these positive things and avoid negative things that can ruin their schedule.

[Jawhead999]

With all their high curiosity, young people will try something they have never done, including gambling, alcohol, sex, and drugs. But that won't happen to young people who can control themselves, which they learned from a young age and have been given understanding by their parents so they won't do things they might not be allowed to do at their age. And when there are young people who have started gambling, this is worth asking, where did they get to know about gambling and since when did they start gambling.

His parents must convince him that gambling is not good for him mentally and financially and give him the understanding to have other activities to keep him busy. Usually, if young people already have a positive activity, they will try to keep doing these positive things and avoid negative things that can ruin their schedule.

I don't understand how you can include gambling to be a part of alcohol, sex and drugs because all of them are bad for young people. Gambling isn't bad as long as that young people have money to afford to lose either it's from their saving, freelancing, or part time job.

Gambling is should used to be an entertainment, similar like how most of young people are playing video games because it's fun.

[Issa56]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

Then every action should be taken by the mother to stop the boy from gambling. If the boy continues and time comes when he has nothing with him again, then he might end up doing illegal things just to make money to continue gambling. The mother shouldn’t just keep quiet and be looking at him. I won’t be surprised if he ends up using his school fees to gamble. We have seen that kind of thread on the forum here before. The money misplaced by your relatives might not have been stolen by the boy, but since they know he's a gambler, they will think the money was stolen by him just to gamble. I don’t know if the boy is addicted to gambling or not, but addicted gamblers do crazy things just to get money to gamble.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble.

The boy might be telling the truth, he might not have stolen from his mom before, but what will happen in the future? He might not have started, but he might end up doing it in the future. Also, the boy might not be telling the truth, he might have been stealing from his mom, and he won’t want to confess, but all you have to do is talk to him about stopping gambling.

What will be your advice for this young boy?

Since the boy is still in school and he depends on the money he receives from family members for survival, he should stop gambling. Whenever he starts working and earning, he can start enjoying gambling, and we all know that it’s kind of easy for him to get addicted to gambling because he is still a child, especially if he is really desperate to make money.

[GigaBit]

It's absolutely unwise for a financial dependent to gamble and should be condemned by anyoone who's around such person. Over the years, I've seen very young people who are still surviving with the financial assistance of their parents or guardians use money that was meant for something very serious like school fees, money meant hospital bills and sometimes money that was given to them to go and buy food items using such money to gamble.
They end up losing the financial trust of their parents and guardians because of their very silly decisions to gamble with those money.

Honestly, I am very concerned about incidents like this but there is not much we can do to stop them and only self-awareness can stop or control these gambling activities.
Maybe if there is socialization and also educational services for youth it can put more pressure on the increasing number of gamblers classified as teenagers or students who are currently mushrooming in every country.

At this age a gambler cannot be identified unless he reveals the matter himself because a gambler is getting all kinds of benefits from sitting at home. If a gambler realizes on his own that he may be addicted or has pushed himself into a hostile environment from which he needs a way out, he will find a way to control himself there if he can explain addiction well to those gamblers. We should remember that no gambler can be forced to turn away. If they are adults then definitely they can come back by realizing these things.

[bangjoe]

I do not agree if the child is said to be a responsible gambler just because he gambles when he has money or has savings, in my opinion it is still excessive gambling in gambling, responsible gamblers are those who do it regularly in terms of money, and he only set aside a little money to gamble from the salary or income he gets from his job, plus he is still 18 years old, maybe he doesn't force him to gamble today when he doesn't have money, but we don't know a year later if he gambles illegally massive when the age of maturity is still unstable, his character will become a gambler in life.

[elevates]

I do not agree if the child is said to be a responsible gambler just because he gambles when he has money or has savings, in my opinion it is still excessive gambling in gambling, responsible gamblers are those who do it regularly in terms of money, and he only set aside a little money to gamble from the salary or income he gets from his job, plus he is still 18 years old, maybe he doesn't force him to gamble today when he doesn't have money, but we don't know a year later if he gambles illegally massive when the age of maturity is still unstable, his character will become a gambler in life.

You are right by just having a conversation you cannot ascertain that this child is a responsible gambler. Children are know to lie when caught and I believe this child is doing the same thing. If he continues to keep on lying like this he would end up in bad state. I think strict action is needed to discipline this child and for that you need to stop having conversation and ask questions. Being 18 year old does give him the right to gamble but he do need to understand that his mum is all he has and if becomes addicted to gambling it won't be easy to come out of it. Leaving his mum devasted and destroyed.

[slapper]

It's absolutely unwise for a financial dependent to gamble and should be condemned by anyoone who's around such person. Over the years, I've seen very young people who are still surviving with the financial assistance of their parents or guardians use money that was meant for something very serious like school fees, money meant hospital bills and sometimes money that was given to them to go and buy food items using such money to gamble.
They end up losing the financial trust of their parents and guardians because of their very silly decisions to gamble with those money.

There are lots of young people who are also students who are fond of gambling and of course most of them only rely on money given by their parents to be used for gambling while their parents give the money to meet their needs as students or school pocket money.
It's a shame that those who should be the next generation actually like or worse become gambling addicts, indeed there are some children who can make their own money such as starting a business because where I live there are quite a lot of young people who are still in school starting to learn to do business to make money but if they are already familiar with gambling then I can ensure that it will be difficult for them to develop, especially to develop a business that is being pioneered.
There is no way that can be done to stop these youths and the ease of accessing gambling sites actually makes them feel as if they are being facilitated by existing technological developments.

Honestly, I am very concerned about incidents like this but there is not much we can do to stop them and only self-awareness can stop or control these gambling activities.
Maybe if there is socialization and also educational services for youth it can put more pressure on the increasing number of gamblers classified as teenagers or students who are currently mushrooming in every country.

What you're describing is a disaster waiting to happen! Youth gambling? That's opposite sportspeople's discipline and dedication. Instead of practicing hard, putting in the hours, and striving for perfection, they're gambling?

They dump money for education and basic needs into the gambling pit? You're telling me people are creating businesses in this mess? If they have the gambling bug, those enterprises will collapse. Hard.

The internet makes it easy? Yes, it is! It made my success easy, though. All about choices. Let's be honest - if kids can't resist gambling, how will they handle real-world challenges? Socialization and education may help, but I'm not optimistic.

[gabbie2010]

A family member reported to me that her eighteen years old son has started gambling. She is not worried that he is gaming but her problem is that he is a student that solely depends on her for everything he needs. Her fear is also that her son might start stealing from her if he has no access to the money he needs to gamble. My relative has even started suspecting that some money she feels was misplaced might have been stolen by her son.

Personally I think the main priority of the son is to concentrate on his studies for now thus the mother has the main role of counseling him because of the dangers of being a gambling addict how it going to affect his academic performances it's good to hear that his mother is ready taking care her son financial obligations, I don't see how the son can balance gambling activities beside his studies, definitely he has to leave one for another one thus leave gambling to face his studies squarely.

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

I commend you for taking your time to question him about his gambling activities and based on your judgement he is a responsible gambler, however you should let him know that prioritizing gambling instead of his studies will have great consequences that is why his mother is worried, he should complete his course of studies first thereafter he will have enough time to gamble  as well working this wouldn't allow his mother to have any cause to worry about him.again.

[piebeyb]

I do not agree if the child is said to be a responsible gambler just because he gambles when he has money or has savings, in my opinion it is still excessive gambling in gambling, responsible gamblers are those who do it regularly in terms of money, and he only set aside a little money to gamble from the salary or income he gets from his job, plus he is still 18 years old, maybe he doesn't force him to gamble today when he doesn't have money, but we don't know a year later if he gambles illegally massive when the age of maturity is still unstable, his character will become a gambler in life.

Yes, for me someone who is still 18 is still not very mature, so it sounds strange if he has started gambling and making money, even though we know that gambling is not a place to make money, let alone get riches quickly, so I think he is too. you should focus on raising money to continue higher education to get a more decent job in the future.

I wonder why young people nowadays are so proud of getting money from gambling even though it is from their work money, even though I gamble also use my salary money set aside but at least I know that gambling is just for fun, worried that young people like that are carried away by the emotions of playing too deep to get out of control in the long term and eventually become an addict.

[naira]

I spoke to my nephew and he told me that he has never stolen from his mother to gamble. And he gambles with only his savings from his weekly stipend he receives from the family. And he won't gamble if he has no savings to do that. From my observation, he is a responsible gambler that is just enjoying the game and making a little money occasionally. The gambling age in my country is 18+, but his mother is insisting that he must stop. What will be your advice for this young boy?

The mentality of young people is still not convincing. Maybe for a while he was seen as being in charge of what was at stake in gambling. But you already know that cases of gambling addiction do not know old or young, even experienced gamblers will do unexpected things just to be able to gamble. We don't know without being able to witness the gambling activity firsthand because from there we can judge how aggressive and uncontrollable a person's emotions are while gambling. Regardless of his intentions at a young age, he should be more able to weigh association because usually this is contaminated with gambling from the surrounding environment.