Does having children have an influence on gambling habits?

[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

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[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.

[TopTort777]

They still, it will serve to them as a reminder that they're no longer a single guy and they have responsibilities and obligations to cater. That's why for single and married gamblers, they need to remember the situation that they're on right now and their life is no longer their life because of the life choice that they make. Speaking of the married gamblers, they know that marrying someone is going to shoulder them another life and that's why they need to prioritize that than themselves.

It sounds like before becoming a parent, every gambler is not a responsible person No doubt that my life has changed after becoming a father. First years of being a parent I have dedicated most of free time to a kid. But having or not having children does not mean that this is a line when you have to be responsible and not responsible gambler, and have other obligations and supporting family. It not like that before marriage and kids I led carefree life, and all of sudden, after leaving doors of maternity hospital, a switch turns in me and I become a completely different person. What has changed, are gambling sessions (become shorter) and their regularity.

[kotajikikox]

this is about obligation and when you have children there are lots of obligations that needs to be in and that will effect the regular gamblers life when he was still single and when he is married and has a family.
in the past that he can lose all his day job pay in gambling ? this time nope they will not because instead of losing they need to keep those money for Milk and foods .
and for me this will come how good that person is , if he did no change even when having family then he is not a deserving parent .

[zuzie]

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.

That's right, many gamblers are willing to spend their money to bet in the gambling games they play because they don't have good self-control and when they have experienced a lot of losses, they will try to get up and recover. Their condition is very difficult and requires struggle and process. it will take a long time to recover from this condition.
And what you say may be true. The gambler is thinking whether he also needs to use money from his family's needs to gamble because he no longer has spare money to gamble, so the only way is to use money from his family's needs.
And from this bad common sense, it is certain that the gambler will harm himself and his family, and his wrong actions can harm everyone around him.

[dansus021]

Gambling is not for the poor people.

Well Kinda agree with this tho everyone can gamble but in this position of family I would consider to pay everything for the family needs first rather make gambling first

It's good that his wife knows that her husband is a gambler and I hope she also knows the risk of the gambling. In case, someday, her husband loses a big amount in gambling there will be no surprises for the wife as she already knew that her husband was risky money and it could turn out that he could earn a jackpot and if not, he could also lose all his money. Its better for both partners, husband and wife, to know each other activities and they both should have mutual trust between them.

Yeah I know the wife knows that his husband plays gamble and he set a monthly budget so he can't play more than that and he actually one of the members stake.com signature campaign. When family is build up we also need build a trust and I agree with you

[Loveday422]

Sure gamble is one of the biggest challenges many Nigerians are facing today,what ever you are doing today you need to apply it with sense because when it happens nobody can assist you even if you have assistant they will laugh at you,why am saying this as a family man you should know you have much responsibilities to take care of your home and reduce bet
A man got married he wasn't taken care of his wife and kid because all his money are being use for beting and in many Nigeria hospital they doesn't treat patents without money and his wife  was sick this man run around to get small money to deposit before treatment,no one accept to give him due to his gambling life style finally this young promising young girl of 28 died just like that and aboundoned her child ,let this be a leason to us ,we shouldn't trust bet 100% percent,you can play small if at all you want to play ,play bet with sense and also remember you have responsibilities and try as much as you can to save , because when it happens, nobody will come for you ,your children we be your power when you are old ,so try as much as you can to put them in school don't use all your money for bet
Stop the harbit of beting so your family can grow .

[Reatim]

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?

They would most likely want to change for the better since they have to provide and be there for their kids. But honestly it still depends on the person. If even after becoming a father and he still doesn’t learn how to be more mature and careful then maybe he just isn’t a responsible person in general and nothing not even a family can change that.

[rodskee]

for me the only important thing here is that how that gambler change her habit once
they have their own child because of the obligations and the responsibilities that they  might
be missing once they continue dealing with gambling.

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

indeed , try not to expose the kids in our gambling activities.

[bitterguy28]

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?

They would most likely want to change for the better since they have to provide and be there for their kids. But honestly it still depends on the person. If even after becoming a father and he still doesn’t learn how to be more mature and careful then maybe he just isn’t a responsible person in general and nothing not even a family can change that.

and you are right on that because i have known some gamblers in the past when they are single but after that when they turn to have a baby? started changing world and have lessen if did not steps out completely of the gambling.
and in that situation I agreed and salute to that man until now that he change his life for his family.

[GIF-JOBS]

I have no experience in this matter because I am not married yet. Moreover, gambling is a precarious thing, you have a family and you live on a tight budget, now if you gamble and lose your money, you will face a huge problem. Also the expensive expenses behind the children are best not to hurt them in any way. If you quit gambling after having children.