Is it proper for younger ones to gamble?

[yazher]

When we were high school students we were not allowed to enter the Internet Cafe while the class still going on no matter what suits we were wearing despite such restrictions, we still found a way to play because of our addictions. Put that in those kids' situation while they don't have anybody to prevent them from playing while they still wearing their uniforms, it's like a playground for them and nothing can change them with that kind of scenario and the worst part is, the next time you see them, they're not gonna be just two of them rather they bring a whole bunch of student who are gambling addict too hype their bad habits.

[Blitzboy]

Its a major issue for our children. I've seen the industry's good and terrible, and this is bad. Kids gambling? Thats disastrous. They cant tolerate that risk since their brains are still developing. It ruins their schooling and future

Watching teens gamble in school uniforms? Thats poor regulations and an indication of our directionlessness. We need strict child protection laws. Period. Any parent knows you want your kids to create a future, not gamble away. Just simple sense. Set the next generation up to win, not lose. Teachers, parents, we must collaborate. I know gambling is fun for some, but our kids? A firm no

[GxSTxV]

It depends on how old they are, usually people under the age of 18 are restricted from gambling but that depends on the country they come from.

Gambling is an activity that is taken as a bad habit just like drinking alcohol or smoking, they could be fun but they got a lot of negative sides. Just like it is forbidden for kids to encounter these bad habits, I think that it is also bad for younger ones to participate in gambling because when someone is in a younger age they could behave irresponsibility and impulsively which makes them take stupid decisions.
Gambling is an activity where the gambler should consider a lot of decisions and rules before doing it, that is why it is better for a mature person to do it.
Maybe if those young ones are more mature than their age, they could make some good money out of it and use it wisely.

[irhact]

I am never in favor that young people to gamble.The restriction in physical casinos should be clear,not allowed to gamble unless 21 of age because when you are young you don't have a clear idea or a clear vision of what to do in your life.When you are over 21 you are still young but you are a bit more grown up,more smart and now most likely your ideas are more clear also and that is why I am always in favor of such restriction.

  I dont think kids should be exposed to some certain things at some age, and gambling is one of them, if a kid get addicted at a very tender age, you could imagine what that kids could become if when they turn adults and start making their own money, a lot of people have mentioned that gambling could exposed kids to steal and I agree with that also since they do not have a source of income to fund themselves.

 They could start taking money without their parents concept to fund gambling, most of them would think it's a sure way of making money and before you know it they've become addicted to it. But I think parents need to caution their kids, let them know the consequences of involving themselves into it, let them know how risky it is an how bad it could affect their education, let them know it is against the law for them to gamble at a certain age.

[shivansps]

Because nowadays the younger ones take gambling more seriously then school. Yesterday i got back home early so I decided to step out and go to a betting shop to catch some fun while gambling, I saw two teenagers gambling with their school uniforms on them.

I asked someone besides me why did they allow this boy's to come in with their uniforms and gamble, he said did they put any restrictions that younger ones are not allowed to gamble. I said but it's not normal, I replied him what if this are your kids would you be happy seeing them gambling with their uniforms on them. So what do you guys think about this situation at hand now.

I think that if these people saw their children gambling in this place, they would quickly change the rules. It is not for nothing that children around the world are not allowed to gamble, because they cannot yet make competent decisions and cannot be held responsible for their actions. I don’t know in which country this is happening, but I think that this is not normal and it will not lead to anything good. Here a lot depends on the laws of that country and what these laws say about the participation of children in gambling, if the country allows it, then it will be difficult to prohibit it.
It’s hard to look at adults who have problems with gambling addiction, what can we say about children?! This is the highest degree of immorality.

[Ojima-ojo]

It depends on how old they are, usually people under the age of 18 are restricted from gambling but that depends on the country they come from.

Gambling is an activity that is taken as a bad habit just like drinking alcohol or smoking, they could be fun but they got a lot of negative sides. Just like it is forbidden for kids to encounter these bad habits, I think that it is also bad for younger ones to participate in gambling because when someone is in a younger age they could behave irresponsibility and impulsively which makes them take stupid decisions.
Gambling is an activity where the gambler should consider a lot of decisions and rules before doing it, that is why it is better for a mature person to do it.
Maybe if those young ones are more mature than their age, they could make some good money out of it and use it wisely.

Most countries around the world unless in few will the age restriction work because in most places you still fine handful of under age gambling both in the offline and the online casinos.


The 18 plus roll is subject to some few countries who even try to ban gambling completely, this is the high way to tackles the Gambling addiction that can arise from under age gambling.

[maydna]

That is the fact that happens today whereas many kids under 18+ visits offline or online casino. They don't thinks that gambling is not for them and yes, that is not normal for their ages. But although we warn them, they still visits that casino and playing gambling with their friends. They seems doesn't thinks that playing gambling needs to have many things to avoids the addiction. Their parents must educates them to stay away from gambling and not trying to playing gambling games with their friends. They can't resist the tempts from gambling if they decides to playing gambling and will comes back to play the games and that can cause many problems in their ages.

[Su-asa]

In this situation, the responsable who let these children enter that place must be blamed. Not only is gambling forbidden to the children, but the risks go beyond that and reach their lives. They are not in the right place to spend time and play.
I think the matter is not in your hands or in my hands. Many things have changed, and the attraction of young people to gambling is noticeable these days, as you said. I personally started gambling at a young age, and this is what I do not advise young people to do, but the matter remains in the hands of the parents in raising awareness and advice in the first place, and then Society. In our time, everyone can gamble with  fake identity  , especially on sites and online casinos, and they do not realize that the risks are great. Some may even steal from home or engage in crime... So this is absolutely wrong

Absolutely.
However IMO I think that every gamble hall should be able to have a security on the entrance of their shop/store so that not everyone can be able to go into the gambling hall. The work of the securities should be to walkout anyone that's not up to age of gambling and those that are mentally unstable. The reasons why they shouldn't allow children to enter into the gambling hall is because they are not up to age and they can't afford to lose anything in gamble and they don't have to the sense of making decisions. And the mental unstable people should not gamble because they are mentally unstable and can cause harm when they lose money.

[stomachgrowls]

That is the fact that happens today whereas many kids under 18+ visits offline or online casino. They don't thinks that gambling is not for them and yes, that is not normal for their ages. But although we warn them, they still visits that casino and playing gambling with their friends. They seems doesn't thinks that playing gambling needs to have many things to avoids the addiction. Their parents must educates them to stay away from gambling and not trying to playing gambling games with their friends. They can't resist the tempts from gambling if they decides to playing gambling and will comes back to play the games and that can cause many problems in their ages.

Due to easy access or simply talking about internet and  the things that could really be able to deal up with then its not really that shocking that those youngster would really be having that kind of involvement towards
gambling considering that it would really be that so easy on trying out to access up these places without being that caught. If we do speak about physical places then it wont really be that much of a common scenario on this one.Although there might be some instances that these fellas could really be seen into the vicinity whether they had been allowed or something like that but its not really that right at all no matter what the angle that we would really be trying to look upon. We do know the risks involved when it comes on dealing up with gambling in having that not right on age because you cant really be able to bare up with the risks involved
until you would be finding yourself that devastated.

[boltz]

Young people shouldn't touch betting because when they see a way to earn money with minimal effort, they will not focus study and socialize, but they will focus to spend all of their time just for gambling. They think if they have spend all of their time and effort for gambling, they will become a professional gambler and will high likely to earn. But, the reality most gamblers are in loss.

So true! We need to protect younger generation from betting and gambling but with every generation getting poorer and poorer , most of them are looking towards gambling like a life saver and that is a huge problem that no one wants to admit. Here in Romania , we finally introduce a law that erased all gambling shops from rural zones because those kids were stacking into a booking house daily , skipping school and just betting their pocket money that parents gave them for road travel or simply for a quick snack...

[Dewi Aries]

In this situation, the responsable who let these children enter that place must be blamed. Not only is gambling forbidden to the children, but the risks go beyond that and reach their lives. They are not in the right place to spend time and play.
I think the matter is not in your hands or in my hands. Many things have changed, and the attraction of young people to gambling is noticeable these days, as you said. I personally started gambling at a young age, and this is what I do not advise young people to do, but the matter remains in the hands of the parents in raising awareness and advice in the first place, and then Society. In our time, everyone can gamble with  fake identity  , especially on sites and online casinos, and they do not realize that the risks are great. Some may even steal from home or engage in crime... So this is absolutely wrong

Absolutely.
However IMO I think that every gamble hall should be able to have a security on the entrance of their shop/store so that not everyone can be able to go into the gambling hall. The work of the securities should be to walkout anyone that's not up to age of gambling and those that are mentally unstable. The reasons why they shouldn't allow children to enter into the gambling hall is because they are not up to age and they can't afford to lose anything in gamble and they don't have to the sense of making decisions. And the mental unstable people should not gamble because they are mentally unstable and can cause harm when they lose money.

Yes I think your method can be useful to be applied in physical casinos, but I think this method will not really work if we talk about the type of online casino which is now increasingly popular and reaching more and more people because most people especially young people prefer to spend most of their time playing the internet and I found a news that informs that there is a significant increase in terms of statistics that in the last one year the population of gamblers has increased dramatically which most of them are young people and this is quite alarming news in my country.

On the other hand I understand that casinos can implement stricter systems such as implementing KYC so that minors cannot be involved in any type of online gambling, but honestly I see only a few online casinos that implement systems like this (especially in my country) which in turn makes anyone (including minors) free to engage in any type of online gambling with easy registration, and I think this makes sense because logically gambling is a business for casinos, They will not care about the safety of minors, the point is that casinos only want more people involved in their gambling sites regardless of whether they are minors or adults, because after all the more people involved the greater the casino profits, and I think one of the actions that can be taken to prevent a child from getting involved in gambling is back to their parents, or that means parents must be able to supervise their children to avoid gambling.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Younger ones can gamble but there must be age limit consideration before allowing for such, gambling is something that involves the use of money to do, we cannot expect a child who is still independent to be fully engaged in gambling, what will first come to mind is on how he managed to see fund to use for that purpose, but when a child is above eighteen years old, we can consider him to be more matured and at the stage of trying to get his independency from his parents to gamble after which he must have been involved in other things that source income to his pocket.

[Ever-young]

Because nowadays the younger ones take gambling more seriously then school. Yesterday i got back home early so I decided to step out and go to a betting shop to catch some fun while gambling, I saw two teenagers gambling with their school uniforms on them.

I asked someone besides me why did they allow this boy's to come in with their uniforms and gamble, he said did they put any restrictions that younger ones are not allowed to gamble. I said but it's not normal, I replied him what if this are your kids would you be happy seeing them gambling with their uniforms on them. So what do you guys think about this situation at hand now.

Yes, it's really abnormal for kids to gamble especially if they are not yet up to 18 or 20, because it will really affect their mental state of mind and I don't know if it's because of how the economic is, that is why younger ones gambling, but that shouldn't be an excuse for them to gamble at a younger age because it will really create an impact in them that can lead to gambling addiction, financial problems, losing focus on their academics and other negative outcomes. So in order to avoid such case, parents or guardians should also be vigilant and monitor their children way about or activities and the kinds of friends they make or have around them, also tell them the dangers and effect gambling will do in their especially if they an addict. So with all these awareness, we can help out younger ones.

[Jegileman]

Because nowadays the younger ones take gambling more seriously then school. Yesterday i got back home early so I decided to step out and go to a betting shop to catch some fun while gambling, I saw two teenagers gambling with their school uniforms on them.

I asked someone besides me why did they allow this boy's to come in with their uniforms and gamble, he said did they put any restrictions that younger ones are not allowed to gamble. I said but it's not normal, I replied him what if this are your kids would you be happy seeing them gambling with their uniforms on them. So what do you guys think about this situation at hand now.

In a country where there’s no rule on age limit to gamble or a bet platform that does not restrict any age group from betting, you’ll see more teenagers engaging in betting which is not good. A student that is under the care of their parents and have their needs taking care of shouldn’t be find in such places. When they are open to big money at this young age and lavish the way they like, the day they don’t have money again they’ll end up joining bad gangs just to have that money or even steal from home.

As the shop owner, he shouldn’t have allowed underage to play bet in his shop, but since they are no rules to penalise such people and they’re after the money they’ll get, they won’t bother allowing more teenagers come to bet in their shop. Can even to the extent of telling those kids to invite more if their friends because as a student, they hardly go out of money because they’ll need them in school for upkeep or other purposes which they can always ask their parents for.

[Juse14]

Although age is just a number, and is not a guarantee that those aged 18 years and over have maturity in thinking and acting. However, gambling is still not a good place for those who are underage and still in school.

Financially, they are still dependent on their parents, and they themselves are unable to earn money or income. Meanwhile, in terms of gambling, it has quite a large financial risk. And the thing he is worried about is, when they enter the world of gambling and betting, because of their young age and limited experience and understanding, it seems that they are quite vulnerable to gambling addiction. And what's worse, when someone feels addicted to gambling, they will do anything to be able to gamble. Because they have not been able to earn money by working, they are very worried about being able to fulfill their desire to continue gambling, these teenagers have become short-sighted and have lied to their parents several times in order to get money to gamble. and another possibility, this could encourage the teenager to commit even more serious acts, such as stealing

[blockman]

That is the fact that happens today whereas many kids under 18+ visits offline or online casino. They don't thinks that gambling is not for them and yes, that is not normal for their ages.

Here in my country, there are too many influencers advertising casinos and even with the age of 18 under are being exposed to online gambling. They don't think about those audience that they're impacting with the ads that they promote casino. It's easy money for them and that's why they don't care at all but, there are still a lot of good influencers that don't advertise casinos because they know how impactful and influential they are with their audience even if they don't do it.

[MainIbem]

Here in my country, there are too many influencers advertising casinos and even with the age of 18 under are being exposed to online gambling. They don't think about those audience that they're impacting with the ads that they promote casino. It's easy money for them and that's why they don't care at all but, there are still a lot of good influencers that don't advertise casinos because they know how impactful and influential they are with their audience even if they don't do it.

We all know that the social media platforms are mostly use by business owners, influencer etc for advertisement and since gambling platforms are business owned by people then advertising their businesses there is not a bad idea, due to the fact that the social media is crowded with lots of people every business owner see that as the best option for advertisement, moreover I do see some influencers indicate on the advertisement with a write up +18 rated to discourage people below such age from doing it. So I don't blame most of them if kids out of greed or love for quick money decide to go into gambling knowing fully well it's rated +18. Well I think parents are in the right position to caution children below 18 from going into the media cause lately, asides gambling there are many 18 rates stuff that could corrupt their mindset stuff like Pornography and the rest .

[Mia Chloe]

Firstly I think that younger ones Gambling is very wrong. The age restriction for Gambling is more like a safe guard to prevent unnecessary and irresponsible Gambling habits of an individual and hence the Gambling restriction of 18+. A lot of teenagers are not able to make proper decisions for themselves hence if they are given the opportunity to gamble they will end up abusing it and even harming themselves. One common issue is that in some countries they are unable to properly enforce the 18+ Gambling rule hence alot of these teenagers in such countries are able to do such things illegally.

[blockman]

Here in my country, there are too many influencers advertising casinos and even with the age of 18 under are being exposed to online gambling. They don't think about those audience that they're impacting with the ads that they promote casino. It's easy money for them and that's why they don't care at all but, there are still a lot of good influencers that don't advertise casinos because they know how impactful and influential they are with their audience even if they don't do it.

We all know that the social media platforms are mostly use by business owners, influencer etc for advertisement and since gambling platforms are business owned by people then advertising their businesses there is not a bad idea, due to the fact that the social media is crowded with lots of people every business owner see that as the best option for advertisement, moreover I do see some influencers indicate on the advertisement with a write up +18 rated to discourage people below such age from doing it. So I don't blame most of them if kids out of greed or love for quick money decide to go into gambling knowing fully well it's rated +18. Well I think parents are in the right position to caution children below 18 from going into the media cause lately, asides gambling there are many 18 rates stuff that could corrupt their mindset stuff like Pornography and the rest .

Gone are the days when most social media platforms are only for socializing. This time, it's for an actual marketplace where everyone can meet from business to business and other industries. Well, it's part of their business model to have revenue and that's through the ads.
There's one thing that's being cooked in our lawmakers that they're about to ban the advertisement of gambling through social media platforms because a lot of people are seeing it not just the kids but also the adults that can't control themselves and gets addicted to it.

[serjent05]

When we were high school students we were not allowed to enter the Internet Cafe while the class still going on no matter what suits we were wearing despite such restrictions, we still found a way to play because of our addictions. Put that in those kids' situation while they don't have anybody to prevent them from playing while they still wearing their uniforms, it's like a playground for them and nothing can change them with that kind of scenario and the worst part is, the next time you see them, they're not gonna be just two of them rather they bring a whole bunch of student who are gambling addict too hype their bad habits.

But these does not mean that it is proper for a minor to gamble.  I believe it is a global rule that a person should be at least 18 years old to be able to engage in gambling legally.  In any country, anything that is illegal is not proper so applying that logic, regardless of the minor's addiction or how freely they can engage in gambling activities, it is not appropriate/proper for them or let them engage in a gambling activity.

Gone are the days when most social media platforms are only for socializing. This time, it's for an actual marketplace where everyone can meet from business to business and other industries. Well, it's part of their business model to have revenue and that's through the ads.
There's one thing that's being cooked in our lawmakers that they're about to ban the advertisement of gambling through social media platforms because a lot of people are seeing it not just the kids but also the adults that can't control themselves and gets addicted to it.

It can't be avoided, social media platforms are made to make a profit so any advertisement as long as it is not illegal can be shown on the platform.  The "meeting place of people"  is just a strategy to lure the masses into using their apps and actually planned so that they can launch the business model in their mind.