Does having children have an influence on gambling habits?

[yahoo62278]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

If you have children and you are spending your bill money, food money, or anything else that should be used for your family then IMO you're a moron and a waste of human life. 1st responsibility should be to your family, then if you have the extra, you can gamble a little.

[Crypto Library]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Of course responsibility increases after having children, in that case if someone is irresponsible then he will gamble beyond his afford zone. But I don't think there's anything wrong with gambling after having kids within your afford. But here one thing must be taken care that gambling should be limited till enjoyment so that it never reaches addiction which can bring trouble for your family.

I do not know about gambling. But in trading, most traders are losing also just like gambling. Most traders that are married that were trading quit trading or reduce the money they are using to trade. I guess that is how gambling would be. But some people will just be different and be addicted, just like trading also and continue to gamble.

Buddy I think you are mixing up trading and gambling I don't think those are the same things this to our totally different from each other. And yes what you have said is right that most of the trader face loss because they are not the professional in trading most of the people don't know how to do technical analysis or they don't even the basic fundamental knowledge so in this case those trader face loss you can also say those who don't do analysis and investing trading they are like same as gambler

[sompitonov]

It certainly does, but again, it happens differently depending on the psychology of the person. I think there are examples when upbringing is very difficult for someone, constant lack of sleep, children’s crying, all this usually divides the life of parents into BEFORE and AFTER. Generally speaking, I think that for some this can lead to mild depression, the consequences of which can affect their involvement in gambling as an activity in which a person seems to be hiding from the outside world and children. The player can go crazy there simply by losing money and showing various emotions. But there are also players who, having children, on the contrary, behave extremely responsibly, so much so that they will never get involved in gambling until the children reach an old age and become independent. Here I also see the danger in the fact that the player can indulge in sudden permissiveness and accumulated emotions that he has not shown for many long years and give free rein to his feelings.

[ethereumhunter]

Yes, parents can changes their gambling habits and will gives priorities to their children and family because they knows that's the important things in their life. They will not try to playing gambling too often and will reduces their habits because of their family and children. Some parents will stops their gambling activity because they don't want to losing money from gambling and they knows that the money is better for their family and not deserves to be used for playing gambling. But we knows that some parents will still playing gambling and still trying to allocates some money to their habits. But they also allocates the other money for their children and family.

[Natsuu]

Having kids definitely shakes up your gaming routine. Tight budgets and less free time come with the parenting package. You might find yourself playing less or on a budget-friendly console and losing a game hits differently when you're the one in charge of a family. The guilt of spending time gaming instead of handling parental duties can make losses sting a bit more plus gaming expenses might take a back seat to more pressing family needs. It's all about finding that balance between being a gamer and a responsible parent where losses in games are weighed against the larger backdrop of family life

[Eternad]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Yeah right if you are a responsible parents but there’s still some people that leave the responsibility of their child to wife while the husband can do whatever he want as long as he can provide money for his family. This question will vary based on the family arrangement and financial capability of a person because someone rich can still gamble like normal even if he has a child to support since his salary is sufficient to cover everything.

It’s up to the person priorities but normally people on a normal family will slow down on gambling and focus on his family since expenses grow along with the children growth so it’s only normal to stop gambling expenses and focus to family.

[bitzizzix]

You have to change your gambling when you get married and have children because that has to be your priority financially, and I felt the change I had to accept.
Before I got married and had children, I gambled endlessly with my time and money because I had nothing to take care of, and after having a family and children I had to change my gambling habits.
I used to gamble almost every day without worrying about spending money, and now I only gamble on weekends for just a few dollars and that too if I have the urge to gamble. Because I put my family's needs first, especially my children, when they want something and I have to be able to make it happen.

[Rabata]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

I don't think there are any people who would be able to handle normal gambling life if such a responsibility impose on them. Of course, when a gambler is entrusted with managing his family, the type of gambling pattern also changes. I know a gambler who used to indulge in gambling before his marriage but had to go out in search of regular work when his family grew. He can't gamble even if he wants to. Moreover, even if he lost earlier, he would not have had any problem, but now he has to regularly provide money for the family. He has to spend that money for any family work. When I questioned him about this, he replied that he had more responsibilities outside of gambling. He also has to fulfil that responsibility.

[arjunmujay]

if we have been addicted to gambling. Of course it will be difficult to stop playing. To get around this, usually many people only use a small portion of their income to gamble. and others for family needs. So in this way, the family's needs are still met and our gambling addiction is still overcome, even though it's not like it used to be. but at least you can still be satisfied and be able to gamble.

[Gozie51]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities.

Sure. The more you expound your family through childbirth, the more the financial commitment and responsibilities.

Sometimes you're on a tight budget.

Not sometimes but almost all the time. Taking care of family is takes more from the parents. The children doesn't understand any other thing apart from their needs which must be met if you want a happy home and enjoy your kids and wife. If you don't meet those needs be sure you will have a nagging wife with colouration of disrespect  

Can being a parent change our playing habits?

Certainly so because having a family is a big responsibility that drains someone out financially especially if you are not financially buoyant and even it is a strain on average family. Therefore, to combine gambling expenses with having a family is quite challenging. If you are a family person, a lose is more painful than a single man who only takes care of his own need as one person . So it makes the responsible family man to either slow down his betting budget, certain risks may be minimised unlike those still single.

Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Surely. A single man can easily work away in loses without much sad feeling but because a family man has more responsibility, he would almost express regrets after the lose. In some cases you will hear some in offline gambling shop secretly saying to themselves that they would have used that money to buy diaper for the baby at home but they only wanted to try their luck and now that they have lost the money, that they are stranded. There are different regrets expressed by family men when they lose bets because of the huge family commitments.

[Davidvictorson]

I don't have children, but I have a cousin who was pretty much into parlay and sport betting during his single years. Once he got engaged and had two children, he completely quit betting on both football and basketball (his favorite sports to wager money on). So I believe there is indeed an effect about having children and one's gambling habits, the order of priorities simply changes and most of responsible people understand now they must take care of human lives by their own.
If I ever end up having children on my own, I will probably step down on gambling and some video game habits. Though, there is still a long path ahead for me.

This is a story that should be emulated. For anyone looking for the motivation to take this step, he it is.

In my own opinion, I want to believe that there are people who have put an end date to their gambling. No, these people are not gambling addicts. They make a pact with themselves that they would completely quit gambling or reduce their rate of gambling when , they get married, secure an employment, reach at certain age bracket, when they attain a certain social status, that they'll quit. And true to their words, they do it.

As for getting married and having kids, the value a person places on them determines their priority.

[Maus0728]

That depends, having a kid will either make or break someone, what I mean by that is when you're already a gambler (for the sake of the example) and you've got a kid, either the kid will stress you out which will lead you to find avenues of recreation to have some break from that life of taking care of that kid which stresses you out or if it's the thing that will lead you to change your habits, say you're constantly gambling at a weekly basis but when you've got a kid, you've told yourself that you would be better for your kid and so your habit became a monthly until you don't even gamble in a month anymore.

What you feel with losses and wins are more intense too when you've got a kid because that money that you've lost could've went to somewhere that would benefit the kid, same with the win but the case with win is some people might not even consider giving something to their kid or contribute to their needs, some wins of these gamblers most likely will go back to playing another round.

So in a way, having a kid definitely makes you change your habits and if you think otherwise, that having a kid doesn't change your habits, that can only mean that you're going to be a bad parent because you don't know how to compromise or develop as a person for someone that you're supposed to love, nurture, and make them as a better person than you although the last part about you can still do it to your kid, they can become a better person than you because you've already set the bar too low for them when it comes to improvement as a person.

[CryptSafe]

OP although I am not parenting currently but I can tell from the things I have seen parents go through in bringing up children. We all are from a home and we can attest what our parents go through while we were growing up as kids. Imagine you as a parent looking for alternative means of survival to meet up with family needs and you decide to gamble just to earn money from it and unfortunately you lose all your bet and looking at the comparative advantage of it being used in the house to you losing it to gamble, how does that feels?

The money that could have been useful or helpful in the house now lost to gambling which you never know what the end results could be buy under assumption you played the game but looking at it the other way round, that money could have sustained your family  maybe paying for some bills or adding more food stuffs to the house.

Not only that,  as the children are growing up, they learn whatever they see their parents doing and as such if they continue seeing their parents gambling, it keeps record in their memory and they would definitely pick it up and as they grow, they begin to practice it because but as parents would definitely not want their child to do that, they would definitely limit their gambling lifestyle and adjust so that their children do not copy that.

[Pi-network314159]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

For sure who has responsibilities would find it difficult to gamble expecially if you are married with kids. Each time you think of gambling you think of your responsibilities feeling that what if this game didn't work out as thought, how will I fell knowing true well that your family need the money more than any other thing. In summary, a married man has more possibilities of being in a tight budget than the single man,who is not married because the mindset of a married man is different from the thinking of others.

[Fiatless]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Getting married and having children changes the financial condition of a man. If you still earn the same as when you are single,  you might have to readjust your gambling budget. You will have to prioritize your children expenses than gambling. And when you have a tight budget,  gambling will have to be dropped or reduced because the family must survive. Any gambler that uses money for family upkeep for gambling is irresponsible.

I am not a parent but I lived on this planet long enough to witness people who have a family and gambling problems. losing money you cannot afford to lose can be debilitating to your family's financial security. so yeah, if you have a family and you are on a tight budget, your gambling habits SHOULD change, your kids and your family's well-being is your priority, and gambling can wait.

This is one of the major causes of divorce in my area. Young families are having issues because the father believes that gambling is an alternative source of income. It will be better if they seek a high-paying job or other sources of income if they want to continue with their gambling budget.

[piebeyb]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

I only have one child and it feels like a heavy responsibility to pay for my child so I don't waste extra money on gambling, that's why I limit my budget and my gambling time so I can share time with family like my wife and children, if asked Regarding changing habits, it doesn't seem to be the case because I still gamble as usual, the same as before I got married, so it also depends on each person, for me there doesn't seem to be any change whether I have a child or not, it's not much different.

I don't think too much about losses because I don't gamble to make money but just to have fun, even though sometimes I feel like I'm losing and losing for me is part of a game and gambling that I agreed to beforehand, sometimes people find it strange that they want to gamble but only want to win but they are afraid of losing and losing, even though in fact they should be able to limit their budget, not avoid losing, because every gambler will experience defeat and loss, the point is, it depends on the budget and the money used, at least use money that is ready to be lost. Don't overdo it just because you want to win big  

[coin-investor]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

If the parent is a responsible parent then he will stop or minimize playing, responsible parents should prioritize the needs of their family before their vice, they can only gamble if he has spare money, but if on a tight budget all the money should go to food for the tables and for paying bills.
The start of having a broken family is when the father prioritizes gambling then the needs of the family, if you have a big family and your salary or profit coming from your business is not big enough to support your gambling sessions then it's better to minimize it.

In my case we have five in our family so I minimize my spending on gambling, I gamble almost daily but my allocation is not big enough that I can still cover paying our bills and having food on the table, a man should prioritize what's important in his life and family is the one that should matter for us in this world.

[348Judah]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

Ofcourse it should because you're now tied to a lot of responsibilities, which one are you going to prioritize over the other, or will one say because of his love and addiction for gambling, he will become irresponsible for his children by choosing gambling over them as his first priority, we have to know how we will be able to manage the two without one being affected by any reason, but the children should come first in place, they cannot be hungry and we are using the money with us to gamble, except for those that have no financial challenges in raising their children, but still yet, children are more important because they needed our attention sometimes.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

When you have one or more children, you have heavy responsibilities. Sometimes you're on a tight budget. Can being a parent change our playing habits? Are losses even harder to bear when you're in charge of a family? What are your experiences in this area?

All you have said is positive in the life of a family man who is into gambling, for a fact, i myself have a family, a wife and three kids, and should I say that for like three getting to four months now, I've not played a single game on any casino, due to important family issues I am trying to sort out, which amongst them is my children school fees, which is very high at the moment due to high inflation of things in my country, my house rent which will be due by the beginning of April, and just yesterday, my landlord contacted me telling me he as double the amount again, which mean, I am paying double of the amount I paid last year, this and many more miscallicious expenses have made me not have any extra or what I choose to call left over money to spend on gambling.

So yeah, having a family, children and all that does influence one's habit when it comes to gambling, I used to risk up to a hundred dollars on gambling every two weeks or lesser, and sometimes., I loss all of this money and still move on like nothing happened, but this day, I can't even afford losing $5 in a week and it will show in my finances, because right now, every penny have become really important.

[Solosanz]

It depends.

If you're a billionaire, how it can cause a problem?

If you're just an Average Joe especially people who live from paycheck to paycheck, obviously having a children will influence anything including your gambling habits. Some people might quit gambling because they realize if the monthly needs increased, while some people would become a gambling addict because they're frustrated to earn more money.