Does having children have an influence on gambling habits?

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

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?

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ because you will always have a second thought considering the family and your children bills before putting gambling your priority, even when you decided to gamble, the amount stipulated on your stake will be carefully monitored and limited because of the family needs ahead for any responsible gambler, you will have to maintain the lifestyle of both and manage each other without one being affected, you will gamble and yet still pays for your family bills because you can only afford gambling with the amount of money you are capable of using for gambling, except you want to be an irresponsible gambler.

[junder]

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ because you will always have a second thought considering the family and your children bills before putting gambling your priority, even when you decided to gamble, the amount stipulated on your stake will be carefully monitored and limited because of the family needs ahead for any responsible gambler, you will have to maintain the lifestyle of both and manage each other without one being affected, you will gamble and yet still pays for your family bills because you can only afford gambling with the amount of money you are capable of using for gambling, except you want to be an irresponsible gambler.

If indeed when we were single we liked to gamble without the burden of thinking about the losses or defeats that occurred and when we were married, let alone had children, in my opinion we should be able to reduce gambling activities which we usually do without hesitation. it's better maybe to stop the habit, but if when you're single you get used to it so you could say it's an addiction then it might be difficult to stop it, but at least we have to think about other souls who should be our responsibility to support them, prioritizing family is important instead of prioritizing habits that could be said to be less good.

If you still want to gamble then it is better to gamble with the money you have left over, also don't overdo it, for example, when basic needs have been met and there are no more things to pay for then there is money left over that can be used to gamble but you still have to remember boundaries, remember family. Be a smart gambler, when the gambling you do results in a profitable win, don't think too much, withdraw the winnings, don't continue, just be safe, that's better.

[masulum]

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ because you will always have a second thought considering the family and your children bills before putting gambling your priority, even when you decided to gamble, the amount stipulated on your stake will be carefully monitored and limited because of the family needs ahead for any responsible gambler, you will have to maintain the lifestyle of both and manage each other without one being affected, you will gamble and yet still pays for your family bills because you can only afford gambling with the amount of money you are capable of using for gambling, except you want to be an irresponsible gambler.

The bad associations around us having effect to our gambling and maybe most influence than child. I know, people who have friends with non-gamblers can also become gamblers. This depends on each individual's mindset and decisions. It's not the network and friends that are at fault not even if we are having a child, but us deciding to choose to be in the same life as those we consider as bad or as a gambler. maybe child can be influence to gamble if his child ask for something that can't be provide instantly by his parent, but this is not a major reason i think.

[Oilacris]

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ because you will always have a second thought considering the family and your children bills before putting gambling your priority, even when you decided to gamble, the amount stipulated on your stake will be carefully monitored and limited because of the family needs ahead for any responsible gambler, you will have to maintain the lifestyle of both and manage each other without one being affected, you will gamble and yet still pays for your family bills because you can only afford gambling with the amount of money you are capable of using for gambling, except you want to be an irresponsible gambler.

The bad associations around us having effect to our gambling and maybe most influence than child. I know, people who have friends with non-gamblers can also become gamblers. This depends on each individual's mindset and decisions. It's not the network and friends that are at fault not even if we are having a child, but us deciding to choose to be in the same life as those we consider as bad or as a gambler. maybe child can be influence to gamble if his child ask for something that can't be provide instantly by his parent, but this is not a major reason i think.

When it comes to possible influences then it could really be something that can happen and this is why it would really be that ideal that you should really making your children would really be that having that self awareness when it comes to gambling so that whenever they do able to encounter such situation then they are fully aware on what are the things that they should gonna do. They cant really just that make themselves having that kind of involvement since they do that it is something that bad to deal with, not generally bad but once you do make yourself having that kind of engagement
then this is where shit things do really start to happen. This is why it is really that something relevant or important if we do speak about parenting because it will really be making our children to be wary
on things on which are supposed to be avoided as much as possible. As a family man then having some gambling activity isnt something that would be ideal anymore, now that you do have
already a family to feed then it would be just that normal that would be making out such adjustments.

[Jody.Drummer]

Every parent has a big responsibility towards their children if they already have children. It's different when they are young and don't limit their gambling when they have children as a parent, you have to be good at managing finances so you don't experience financial problems. Sometimes gambling can cause problems for the family if they can't afford it manage your finances well so it's better to prioritize your children and wife and gambling is number two when we want to do it just for entertainment.

Gambling always involves money, or simply put you will only be able to gamble or engage in gambling when you have money because the name gambling is always about the activity of risking something valuable that you have and one of the most common is money, and obviously by having a gambling habit then inevitably you must be able to balance everything well, especially when you are married or already have children, which means you must be able to give full responsibility to your family by meeting all the needs of your family while on the other hand you also need to set aside money for your gambling habit.

In some cases usually in the end the gambling habit even causes problems in the family's financial balance which means that they are not able to control their gambling activities properly and instead tend to lead to a lot of excessive actions on gambling activities which in turn disrupt the family's financial balance, and yes it is true as you said that the most important thing is household affairs or that means prioritizing family needs over gambling, because after all gambling is an activity full of uncertainty and if you are too serious in treating gambling then it will only cause a lot of problems with your finances.

[Natsuu]

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?

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ

For what I am reflecting, after having a child and being with my woman, I become more conservative. I risk less, gamble less, and really thinking more about the money I am losing than the money I am about to get. This way I get less stress in gambling, I don't force my day to win. I even find it more rewarding because I get to have more time with my family and my work. Because I am only betting the money I am willing to lose and my woman allowed to played with , I am not stressing out if I get losing streak because I know I am not betting it all.

It is something like the less importance I give to gambling and more to my family, to more rewarding it is becoming for me..

[Accardo]

If you're a gambler and you can't disregard you gambling activities or your addiction, please don't have a child and control yourself. You're doing your potential kid a favor by being a responsible father because not all fathers can be a good father to their children. If you can't do any sacrifice to them like you can't gamble at least a few days in a week then please do yourself and kid a favor not to create a baby. We always tell this to the younger ones because they seem to be not good in taking responsibilities but this time, it chooses no age.

You've made a good response for gamblers who are not yet married, but players who got into gambling as married people, may not benefit from this advice. Because they'll be gambling while parenting their young offspring. The upbringing of children is quite stressful, like compulsive gambling. Kids can disturb the peace of the gambler while playing games, hence he wouldn't focus. He'd try to double-task these two stressful duties. The gambler will play blindly, due to this challenge, and could lose out money a lot. When that happens, who is to blame, the child in the mind of the gambler?

But a player who isn't married with kids will place his blame on the house. Some gamblers may not get hold of their emotions or anger when next they're gambling, and the child comes to distract them. They could develop a mood swing and upset the child. However, your advice is also crucial if the player out of his love for his kids, quits gambling compulsively and plays once in a while. And invest his time in building the cognitive brains of the kids. In the future, he'd be glad he did it. Instead of battling with the kid's upbringing alongside gambling.

[zuzie]

Yes, what you said is true, not all gamblers are able to control themselves in gambling if they are classified as serious addicts because treatment is very difficult, especially if they are told to stop.
And if a gambling addict already has a family, it is not certain that he will stop completely and abandon this activity. Sometimes an addict can try as hard as possible to carry out his activities even though he has lost a lot of money there, he will stop if he gets the possibility of a warning or punishment. he couldn't do it or accept it.

A gambler can be a serious addicted to gambling if they can't controls themselves playing gambling. That situation will becomes worst if they don't realize that they must reduce their gambling activity, especially if they have children. Having a children means they must have a responsibility to anything they do because they needs to be wise in whatever they do. They must care with their children so their focus in gambling can be distract because they must take care of their children. Having a children is the important thing for them and they must always take care and not playing gambling too often like before. Their responsibility increase to watch their children so they will not have a free time to playing gambling, especially if their children is still underage.

Totally agree, friend, it is because of the lack of self-control that gamblers can become addicted to gambling and we can see that addicts will become more aggressive when they see the opportunity that they might get, but it is not certain that they will get it easily, that's why they play excessively without limiting the money he will use for gambling.
And especially if the gambler already has children and a wife, if he is really unable to maintain good control related to gambling, then his family will definitely experience quite severe suffering, so it is truly a shame if a father or husband cannot limit and maintain control well because his children and wife will also feel extreme sadness over this carelessness.

[wxa7115]

If you're a gambler and you can't disregard you gambling activities or your addiction, please don't have a child and control yourself. You're doing your potential kid a favor by being a responsible father because not all fathers can be a good father to their children. If you can't do any sacrifice to them like you can't gamble at least a few days in a week then please do yourself and kid a favor not to create a baby. We always tell this to the younger ones because they seem to be not good in taking responsibilities but this time, it chooses no age.

Unfortunately the lack of discipline and self-control have repercussions on most aspects of the life of a person, so if they are irresponsible gamblers, it is doubtful they will think forward enough to prevent themselves from ever having a child.

Which is sad, as those kids will have to grow in an environment in which they will not have all what they need for their correct development, and this could cause them to repeat the same story and become just like their parents.

[ethereumhunter]

Totally agree, friend, it is because of the lack of self-control that gamblers can become addicted to gambling and we can see that addicts will become more aggressive when they see the opportunity that they might get, but it is not certain that they will get it easily, that's why they play excessively without limiting the money he will use for gambling.
And especially if the gambler already has children and a wife, if he is really unable to maintain good control related to gambling, then his family will definitely experience quite severe suffering, so it is truly a shame if a father or husband cannot limit and maintain control well because his children and wife will also feel extreme sadness over this carelessness.

Lack of self-control in gambling just makes someone used more money to playing gambling and that means, he will lose his money. He will difficult to recover his losses in gambling if he lose and difficult to win in gambling. He will gets his emotion becomes high and becomes more aggressive because he feels that he can recover his lose. He will not thinks that if he lose his self-control, that can caused him playing gambling excessively and lose his money without have a chance to gets his money back. That will impact his financial in his family because he will used his family's money to playing gambling without thinks about his family needs. Once he lose his minds, that will be the time for him to lose much money and his family will gets the impact because of his carelessness.

[btc_angela]

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?

When you're married and have children, the level of how you can gambles will differ

For what I am reflecting, after having a child and being with my woman, I become more conservative. I risk less, gamble less, and really thinking more about the money I am losing than the money I am about to get. This way I get less stress in gambling, I don't force my day to win. I even find it more rewarding because I get to have more time with my family and my work. Because I am only betting the money I am willing to lose and my woman allowed to played with , I am not stressing out if I get losing streak because I know I am not betting it all.

It is something like the less importance I give to gambling and more to my family, to more rewarding it is becoming for me..

Definitely, all of us here who have children become more conservative at least in my case, but I will admit that there are years wherein I can't control my gambling and I fell into the addiction even if I have children.

Good for me around 2015, I snapped from my gambling addiction and then totally focus on my family. I still play though in the last couple of years and go on land base casinos, and online during the pandemic. But I will never go back to my previous life as my kids are growing now and I will have to focus on them like their education so that they will have a bright future.

[Unsoldier]

Yes, being a parent comes with a lot of responsibility. When you have a family and children, priorities change and financial decisions become more informed. In my experience, I have realised that gambling habits can be dangerous and unpredictable. If you have a family, my advice is to change your gambling habits in favour of more responsible financial decisions for the good of your family.

[TopTort777]

Yes, being a parent comes with a lot of responsibility. When you have a family and children, priorities change and financial decisions become more informed. In my experience, I have realised that gambling habits can be dangerous and unpredictable. If you have a family, my advice is to change your gambling habits in favour of more responsible financial decisions for the good of your family.

That is right, change gambling habit. Not abandon it. As I see many parents turn into homesters, housewives (even men) when a kid appears in a family. Having children does not mean dropping all previous hobbies or interests. Reconsider and rebalance time - yes. I dont like much when people use "I have a baby, I cant do that now". Children are important, but dedicating 100% of time on them also isnt right. People must have time for themselves also. And that time should not be "rest and sleep" only. Instead of dropping gambling completely because of a new little family member, better gamble more smart, risk less.

[danherbias07]

Every parent has a big responsibility towards their children if they already have children. It's different when they are young and don't limit their gambling when they have children as a parent, you have to be good at managing finances so you don't experience financial problems. Sometimes gambling can cause problems for the family if they can't afford it manage your finances well so it's better to prioritize your children and wife and gambling is number two when we want to do it just for entertainment.

And that's the best responsible thing to do rather than gamble it all away and have your kids hate you either now or in the future.
Don't mess around with the budget that is intended for food, electric and water bills, savings, mortgage, and more. Just pay them first and if ever there's something more that will be left after payment of all that, then use that to have a little bit of fun, if gambling is your hobby then do so. As long as that money has nothing to do with the money that is meant for the family.

Sure, having kids means having responsibilities. That means a father will have to sacrifice his hobbies, his bad habits, and other stuff that he used to do back when he was still single. Luckily, I've never made that mistake just yet and I know that my kids know they are my priority and I will never gamble away money that is meant for them.

[summonerrk]

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?

When I became a father, my life changed. I realized that now not only my well-being depends on me, but also the well-being of my family. That's why I've become much more careful in gambling. I realized that risking too much means jeopardizing not only my finances, but also the future of my loved ones. Now I prefer safer ways of entertaining and investing to ensure our family has a stable future.
My children are my main treasure, and now it's very scary to take risks, you can say it has greatly influenced my style of playing poker, for example.

[Jody.Drummer]

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?

When I became a father, my life changed. I realized that now not only my well-being depends on me, but also the well-being of my family. That's why I've become much more careful in gambling. I realized that risking too much means jeopardizing not only my finances, but also the future of my loved ones. Now I prefer safer ways of entertaining and investing to ensure our family has a stable future.
My children are my main treasure, and now it's very scary to take risks, you can say it has greatly influenced my style of playing poker, for example.

Yes, that's right, when you have entered the family phase or that means when you have entered a new life where you already have your own family, it is clear that the living dependents that you have to pay for will increase, where you not only pay for your living needs but you also have to pay for all the living needs of your small family such as your wife and children because you have become a father who has a big responsibility. And if in a situation like this you are still involved in gambling then obviously there is something that you should pay more attention to which is that you must really be able to manage, control and limit your gambling activities in various aspects such as for example in terms of time and especially budget allocation.

Do not be one-sided, or the point is not to prioritize gambling activities over family interests, but in some cases often gamblers who are married, especially those who are addicted, fall into and get carried away in excessive gambling so that in the end their family relationships are neglected. So the point is that you should really be able to be firm in terms of putting a lot of restrictions on your gambling activities so that everything can be balanced.

[leonair]

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?

When I became a father, my life changed. I realized that now not only my well-being depends on me, but also the well-being of my family. That's why I've become much more careful in gambling. I realized that risking too much means jeopardizing not only my finances, but also the future of my loved ones. Now I prefer safer ways of entertaining and investing to ensure our family has a stable future.
My children are my main treasure, and now it's very scary to take risks, you can say it has greatly influenced my style of playing poker, for example.

Yes, being a father means you are the head of a family. and some people will depend on you so if you are involved in any bad addictions they will have an effect on your family. Especially addictions like gambling will attract kids a lot and kids will get involved in it very quickly.  So when one becomes a father he should be careful and not harm the family for his own temporary happiness. So it is better to keep yourself under control and keep yourself safe from these things

[wiss19]

Once a man is married their should be adjustments on how he behaves in every aspect of lifestyle to not affect his marriage.
It is so wrong for a married man with family to think responsibility can be solve by playing gambling to gain profit. A family man having this mentality is adding more responsibility to himself because looking at gambling as a solution for responsibility is a way of losing more money to gambling. As a married man it is not right to depend so much in gambling because it can never solve problem when you need the gain in it,  instead gambling will make you to lose more. Gambling wins comes as a surprise, no need to have so much expectation of getting a profit all times.

A responsible person would never do that, you are not a responsible person if you have a family to take care of and you rely on gambling to provide you something so that you can fulfill your responsibilities. An adult who is mentally fine should know and understand that gambling cannot be a source of income because its results are based on luck and you can't be lucky all the time which means you will be losing money most of the time in gambling.

A responsible person would make sure they have a stable source of income because if they don't earn money, the family will suffer and they can't let that happen. Such people might gamble but they would do it only for fun and only with funds that they can afford to lose after they have taken care of everything else.

[Lanatsa]

If you're a gambler and you can't disregard you gambling activities or your addiction, please don't have a child and control yourself. You're doing your potential kid a favor by being a responsible father because not all fathers can be a good father to their children. If you can't do any sacrifice to them like you can't gamble at least a few days in a week then please do yourself and kid a favor not to create a baby. We always tell this to the younger ones because they seem to be not good in taking responsibilities but this time, it chooses no age.

Personally, I see no reason to refuse to have a child because of gambling or vice versa. Responsibility is something that is nurtured in oneself and a child is a very good driver to start changing one's life for the better.
I had a lot of bad habits before having a child and I believe I was able to get rid of them just with the addition of responsibility. I am sure that if I didn't have children I would have been more irresponsible not only with my finances, but also with my entertainment.

If you do not have free money for gambling after the birth of a child, then it is a reason to think about whether you earn enough.   

There would really be a big change if we do speak about those bad vices or habits that we do have in the past when we are still single or having no responsibilities on which it would really be that a common approach to have that you should really be giving those priorities into your family that you had built out. Being irresponsible does basically means that you arent that prepared on marriage life because once you do have a family then it would really be that a normal approach that you should really be someone to be that responsible into the actions that you are making. You cant really just that make yourself that stick into those vices or addiction as if there's nothing happened.

If you arent that prepared on leaving out those things then you shouldnt really be making yourself that raising up a family because it was never been the right way on creating or raising one.
You should really be that responsible as a father and never ever make yourself that skipping out their needs and priorities on which this is something that shows on how responsible
you are as a man or husband or father into your own family.

[Ever-young]

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?

When I became a father, my life changed. I realized that now not only my well-being depends on me, but also the well-being of my family. That's why I've become much more careful in gambling. I realized that risking too much means jeopardizing not only my finances, but also the future of my loved ones. Now I prefer safer ways of entertaining and investing to ensure our family has a stable future.
My children are my main treasure, and now it's very scary to take risks, you can say it has greatly influenced my style of playing poker, for example.

You're absolutely right. Gambling losses doesn't only affect the victim but also people around him. Some even go as far as incurring unreasonable amount of debts after exhausting the whole money in their account, and in some cases, they end up losing it all and start paying debts they didn't even utilise for any meaningful thing. And if it's a man with a family, the impact can be extremely hazardous because you'll not only be putting yourself in a critical position, just as you said, but also your family, this could often lead to starving or even worse, like rendering the family homeless. I've seen cases where people go to the extreme of using money meant for rent to gamble with intentions of multiplying the money.
This sometimes has the power to break people's homes and marriages.