Is it proper for younger ones to gamble?

[nelson4lov]

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.

It's worse than you think. Those kids are not gonna quit even if someone talks to them about the damage it's doing to them  since they were already exposed to it earlier. It'd be hard to break off such habit now if they're already doing it with their uniforms on? That's really wild. They now have their balls deep in gambling. Whatever you learn in your teen days, is gonna stick with you in life for sure. That's why I fear for those kids especially if they randomly win, the dopamine hit will push them to bet more.

[Hispo]

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.

In those countries or societies it is simply not a priority for authorities to enforce laws on the casinos and the betting places, I guess. I believe that is one of the signals about how crime and law enforcement is doing in a country, but that is only a theory of mine.
In my experience, schools and educational organizations only care to punish their students if they are caught by someone in a charge or a figure of authority within the school, otherwise, pretty much nobody cares about students gambling or not.

I wonder whether it would be different in countries like The United States and those in the European Union, considering corruption is always present to some degree within all societies.

[Bravut]

If the kids are taking gambling more seriously than their school then they have to check out the parents if they're guiding them properly.

If you know someone personally OP that they've got kids or the kids themselves are more focused to gambling than their studies, report it to the school administrator and to their parents.

With too much usage of the internet is also helping these kids to get more of gambling and that's why, proper guidance and limit of their usage is a must which is the duty of the parents.

I agree with you. Lack of parental supervision is also one of the major factor causing the increasing rate of bad habit and practice in teenagers. If the parents play there role with a strong hand of discipline I doubt this will be the case at least the fear in the children will limit the extend to which they incorporate such habit.

If those teen now take gambling as a source of income how then are they gonna live in the years coming.

And again, parents are to blame. The thing is, yes, parental guidance is a big factor or responsibility of a parent so that their child's will not commit crimes or do bad influence and bad things that are not appropriate to their age, but we all know parental guidance or parents looking out for their child is not 24/7, meaning if the child is going for their child is not 24/7, meaning if the child is going to school then the child is out of the guidance of the parents. No matter how strict or how the parents guide their children, if the friends or the people surrounding them are a bad influence, then there's nothing a parent could do that.

In short, if the child is in the right mind, he or she will not let himself or herself be involved in something like gambling, which may result in bad happenings following that. The parents should not always be blamed; they can't monitor their children 24/7.

I agree that parents can’t monitor or be with there children all the time.
But we won’t neglect the fact that a child with a good moral upbringing will be hard to crack with influence as he/she will tend to move according to the subconscious training. A child with love and care from parent will also open up to there parent in terms of need or any problem, I don’t think such child will have the intention of gambling which might lead to stealing of money just to fulfill the addictive nature.
Parents don’t just train but also monitor the close friends, materials the children are exposed to, most of us didn’t gamble at that age or ever thought of it probably as a family man responsible for your won action you gave in for either reasons and disciplined on how you go about it.

[pinggoki]

It's not proper and it's a sign that you're a bad parent to let your child do the thing that you know will never be good for them. I don't really get the people that would say that it's proper because how can you justify it besides the awareness part? They can get that thing later in their life, anything that you child would be exposed to at a young age would leave a lasting impression to them and you don't really want that to happen because when it does it's going to be a big problem, what if you don't fully know your kid and then you came to know later on that they're going to be easily obsessed on that bad habits. I say that in this scenario, let the kid explore but you have to direct them to the parts of life that would leave a positive lasting impression to them rather than letting them explore aimlessly or even directing them to the bad stuff.

[ethereumhunter]

I agree that parents can’t monitor or be with there children all the time.
But we won’t neglect the fact that a child with a good moral upbringing will be hard to crack with influence as he/she will tend to move according to the subconscious training. A child with love and care from parent will also open up to there parent in terms of need or any problem, I don’t think such child will have the intention of gambling which might lead to stealing of money just to fulfill the addictive nature.
Parents don’t just train but also monitor the close friends, materials the children are exposed to, most of us didn’t gamble at that age or ever thought of it probably as a family man responsible for your won action you gave in for either reasons and disciplined on how you go about it.

It's difficult to monitors their children all of the time but parents still have a chance to educates their children to stay away from something that can harm their lives. If their children follows their parents suggestion, there's nothing to be worry because their children can take care of themselves and knows what they should do if their friends asks them to do something that suspicious. That's why parents must stay closer to their children and always asking what they do while they are not with their parents so parents knows what they do and make sure that their children is okay. But many parents can't do this because they are busy with their jobs and that makes their children lack of their parents love which can impact to their lives. They will trust their friends than their parents because their friends is always besides of them while they have a problems while their parents still busy.

[klidex]

underage people, for whatever reason, are not allowed to gamble, especially when they gamble in a gambling shop wearing their school clothes, the gambling shop should try to prohibit this and not allow them to gamble.  because at their age they should not gamble and be exposed to places like that.  i don't know why the owner of the gambling place allows children to gamble at their place, is he so mindless that he ignores morals and allows children to gamble at his place, and that's just quite sad.

Gambling shops should not only think about profits, they also need to think about the future of the younger generation. If they gamble at an age where they are not yet familiar with gambling, this will affect their future, especially if children think they would prefer to gamble and they become lazy about going to school because they required by difficult lessons of course it will affect future generations so it's good for offline gambling shops to think about that and they prohibit underage children from gambling. It would be better if offline shops implemented identities such as KTPs. Usually school children are very clever at getting around them. come wearing normal clothes so the gambling shop has the right to see the identity of the gambler first to see if they are suitable to gamble.

A few days ago in my country there was a stir with the news of high school students who gambled on slots and took out quite large loans of around $9000. I also didn't expect that a high school student would be so brave in taking out a loan just to gamble. His parents found out and his parents were forced to bear the responsibility for the child's actions if are not responsible, how will child be able to pay the loan? that amount of money if it is not his parents who will return it, causing his parents' business to go bankrupt, so from this incident it can be concluded that underage gambling is very risky. Especially since they cannot earn their own money which will only cause trouble for their parents.

[dezoel]

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.

There is nothing to ask about this, kids gambling in a betting shop isn't normal and anyone knows it. I don't know what the rules and regulations are in your country regarding this, but I don't think anyone below the age of 18 should be allowed anywhere near a casino. I used to think that online casinos are not doing very well because they are easily accessible by children, but if physical casinos are like that then I don't think we can question online ones.

Government and local authorities shouldn't allow this, and even if they do, the shop owner should have some ethics and shouldn't allow children to gamble only to get a few bucks extra as revenue. Even if gambling is legal in the country, this is wrong to another level, if no one stops kids from doing this, their parents need to be responsible at least.

[teamsherry]

Some countries already have strict rule with respect to young people involving in gambling as illegal, but sincerely i also agree with them cause young people might not have developed good self control to be able to keep themselves from getting addicted to gambling.

Have you seen what pornographic contents do to underage children, they result to maturation and that is bad and those habits take a lot of time to fix even in adult hood, so it's best they stay off it.

[Taskford]

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.

There is nothing to ask about this, kids gambling in a betting shop isn't normal and anyone knows it. I don't know what the rules and regulations are in your country regarding this, but I don't think anyone below the age of 18 should be allowed anywhere near a casino. I used to think that online casinos are not doing very well because they are easily accessible by children, but if physical casinos are like that then I don't think we can question online ones.

Government and local authorities shouldn't allow this, and even if they do, the shop owner should have some ethics and shouldn't allow children to gamble only to get a few bucks extra as revenue. Even if gambling is legal in the country, this is wrong to another level, if no one stops kids from doing this, their parents need to be responsible at least.

Its not normal sight to see since there must be something illegal happening if we can see those young individuals going to those betting shops and they can able to bet just like what other people on legal age do.
They should not supposed to go there since they are prone for a lot of risk since young guys don't have proper decision making and that could affect them so bad especially if they go addicted or commit a mistake then lost a lot of money with that.

That's why I agree on what government is imposing and became strict on the casino regarding on this issue since if it happens that the law is not so tight for those kids then everything will be in huge troubles since we can see a lot of children will get off the good track.

[Dewi Aries]

Some countries already have strict rule with respect to young people involving in gambling as illegal, but sincerely i also agree with them cause young people might not have developed good self control to be able to keep themselves from getting addicted to gambling.

Have you seen what pornographic contents do to underage children, they result to maturation and that is bad and those habits take a lot of time to fix even in adult hood, so it's best they stay off it.

For young people who are still underage such as under the age of 18 then yes usually casinos prohibit them from getting involved, which is one of the reasons why casinos apply KYC, namely to avoid some minors from getting involved, and other reasons yes as you said that someone who is still underage usually has an undirected, immature mindset and cannot make rational considerations for making decisions which indirectly usually their mindset leads them to the potential for greater disaster possibilities, plus they cannot control themselves.

If we talk about the impact, it is clear that if young people who are still underage are involved in gambling, it can threaten their future because they still have an unstable mindset and cannot make careful considerations in terms of each time they make a conclusion, but sometimes I quite often see some casinos that operate without involving the KYC system in it which makes anyone can be involved in gambling including minors, and I think for this problem, the rest is the duty of parents to be more vigilant in protecting their children from reaching gambling.

[Hirose UK]

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.

It's worse than you think. Those kids are not gonna quit even if someone talks to them about the damage it's doing to them  since they were already exposed to it earlier. It'd be hard to break off such habit now if they're already doing it with their uniforms on? That's really wild. They now have their balls deep in gambling. Whatever you learn in your teen days, is gonna stick with you in life for sure. That's why I fear for those kids especially if they randomly win, the dopamine hit will push them to bet more.

If we talk logically then it is clear that it is no longer appropriate for children to carry out gambling activities, because if it is just small game that is played with their friends in school can be considered as their entertainment.
Just imagine that they are still school children and whether they deliberately don't go to school or after school going to betting shop is not normal thing for school children to do, I sure if their parents found out they would definitely be very angry.
What is really unfortunate about something like this is the bad impact that could happen to them, such as gambling addiction, losing direction in learning, losing excessive money and the potential for things that go beyond the limit to the loss of child future.
They gamble without any control or proper basis so that they can easily get all the bad effects, betting places should have an age limit for being able to enter.
But basically things like this are happening lot now, even where I live there are several similar incidents, it will be very difficult to suppress or prevent incidents like this.

[Gheka]

It's not proper and it's a sign that you're a bad parent to let your child do the thing that you know will never be good for them. I don't really get the people that would say that it's proper because how can you justify it besides the awareness part? They can get that thing later in their life, anything that you child would be exposed to at a young age would leave a lasting impression to them and you don't really want that to happen because when it does it's going to be a big problem, what if you don't fully know your kid and then you came to know later on that they're going to be easily obsessed on that bad habits. I say that in this scenario, let the kid explore but you have to direct them to the parts of life that would leave a positive lasting impression to them rather than letting them explore aimlessly or even directing them to the bad stuff.

It is never wrong to protect children from negative and potentially imprinting marks on their consciousness, but there is always a reduction over time because what is known from childhood can mitigate the subsequent consequences, let the children are too mature and expose them, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, I also feel that exposing children a little early is not a problem, we can completely cut down on the evils as well as prevent them, letting them try gambling at a later time is just a lonely experience for them, we really don't have the strength in that moment to break their formed consciousness.

[Rabata]

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

Agree with the opinion, though it is normal to have negative effects of gambling, adults can control it, but if minors gamble during their education, on the one hand, they are wasting their money, on the other hand, they are becoming addicted and everyone knows about its effects. From now on, if parents do not take care of their children, those children will destroy them. However, only parents cannot remove these children from such activities, to bring them under control, government laws must also be applied. If all children gambling is discouraged then it can be brought under control.

[retreat]

What surprised me was that the owner of the gambling shop understood that minors were not allowed to gamble, but he still allowed these children to gamble at his place even in their school clothes. I understand that he is also in business and money is money, but there should be limits on who he accepts the money from, he should be aware that it is not appropriate for him to accept underage children to gamble at his place. Didn't he think about how the child's parents would react when they found out that their child was gambling in a place like that? They would definitely be very disappointed with this, because no parent would want their child to become a gambler at a young age.

[slapper]

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.

It's worse than you think. Those kids are not gonna quit even if someone talks to them about the damage it's doing to them  since they were already exposed to it earlier. It'd be hard to break off such habit now if they're already doing it with their uniforms on? That's really wild. They now have their balls deep in gambling. Whatever you learn in your teen days, is gonna stick with you in life for sure. That's why I fear for those kids especially if they randomly win, the dopamine hit will push them to bet more.

If we talk logically then it is clear that it is no longer appropriate for children to carry out gambling activities, because if it is just small game that is played with their friends in school can be considered as their entertainment.
Just imagine that they are still school children and whether they deliberately don't go to school or after school going to betting shop is not normal thing for school children to do, I sure if their parents found out they would definitely be very angry.
What is really unfortunate about something like this is the bad impact that could happen to them, such as gambling addiction, losing direction in learning, losing excessive money and the potential for things that go beyond the limit to the loss of child future.
They gamble without any control or proper basis so that they can easily get all the bad effects, betting places should have an age limit for being able to enter.
But basically things like this are happening lot now, even where I live there are several similar incidents, it will be very difficult to suppress or prevent incidents like this.

Now, the idea of using gambling to teach... There are risks, right? We know it gets hard to stop doing. However, telling our kids there is no gambling will not help them. It's like those stock market games you play in business school. We could make a gambling version of it. Show them how it works and how the odds are against you. This will take the shine off of the whole thing

Kids skipping school to go to betting shops? There's more to that than just gambling. They want a thrill or an easy way to get money. Maybe they're bored at school or feel bad at home. Those things need to be fixed. If you make school fun or help them with their home lives, THEN they won't want to go to those shops as a way to escape

[Accardo]

What surprised me was that the owner of the gambling shop understood that minors were not allowed to gamble, but he still allowed these children to gamble at his place even in their school clothes. I understand that he is also in business and money is money, but there should be limits on who he accepts the money from, he should be aware that it is not appropriate for him to accept underage children to gamble at his place. Didn't he think about how the child's parents would react when they found out that their child was gambling in a place like that? They would definitely be very disappointed with this, because no parent would want their child to become a gambler at a young age.

Individual differences matters in the attitude of gambling shop admins. Like you said some agents focus on money but forget the necessities of respecting the restrictions placed on young underaged players. Allowing such people to gamble in their shops will degenerate the respect some adult have for the shop. Adult players or high rollers wouldn't mind leaving the shop to a more moderated gambling shop. Those agents who don't enforce these restrictions by allowing school kids to use the gambling shop is causing harm to the society.

On the long run the gambling shop will lose out more customers that won't accept such idea; gambling in same room with kids. It's embarrassing gambling with some young folks. Sometimes the gamblers are blamed for showing their kids the gambling house, taking them along with them to the gaming shops. Henceforth, the young person would think it's normal to gamble there since his dad has once taken them to the shop. On the other thoughts the child's parent can be aggressive with the gambling shop for not bouncing out the young school boy from the gambling shop. The emotional downside it causes to the player will cause a lifelong bad effect on the player.

[JMBitcointernational]

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.

Op I am not in any way  supporting them for coming To the betting shop with their uniform To gamble But in the other way round there is no specific uniform for Gamblers And you can gamble with any cloth in as much as you are up To the statutory age required By your country to gamble . Life is quite difficult that even teenager's go after the money too to support their family and at same time take care of their daily needs too.

Moreso. Another thing you will have To put into consideration is his or her upbringing And the environment where he or she is raised bacuse the environment is one the major factors that influence children . If they grow in an environment where virtually all their mates are gamblers they will also be gamblers or in their school as well where all their peer groups are gamblers they will likely try their own possible way to practice gambling so as to have the same experience as their mates .

But in actuality it is not proper for a teanager  to gamble and at same time with school uniforms, but the society is already corrupt and the government who are supposed to regulate such circumstances are also corrupt so the whole system is just corrupt from the head .

[redsun114]

If the kids are taking gambling more seriously than their school then they have to check out the parents if they're guiding them properly.

If you know someone personally OP that they've got kids or the kids themselves are more focused to gambling than their studies, report it to the school administrator and to their parents.

With too much usage of the internet is also helping these kids to get more of gambling and that's why, proper guidance and limit of their usage is a must which is the duty of the parents.

I agree with you. Lack of parental supervision is also one of the major factor causing the increasing rate of bad habit and practice in teenagers. If the parents play there role with a strong hand of discipline I doubt this will be the case at least the fear in the children will limit the extend to which they incorporate such habit.

If those teen now take gambling as a source of income how then are they gonna live in the years coming.

I know this is crazy but I heard before that too much discipline given by the parents to their children is also one of the cause of their rebellion. Maybe the proper way to care them is that we won't be too strict and we won't spoil them too much. Just equal only.

Even on other things, we also have a saying that everything too much is not good anymore. Same goes with everything that is too less. Teens still have a young mind and all what they want is to have fun. If in case they earn something in gambling, they will only use it for playing again or buy other things they like. There is still nothing wrong to treat gambling as a source of income but as long as you are earning successfully with it. 

[Fivestar4everMVP]

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.

Government of different countries have restrictions on young and teenage gamblers. worldwide, there is a set age at which a teenager must reach or attain before he or she is allowed to gamble, for USA, I think the age is either between 19 and 21, while over here in Nigeria, the age is 18, every country of the world where gambling is legal and regulated has restriction on underaged gamblers.

But then on the other hand, what I've personally noticed is that, the law banning underaged teenagers from gambling is no longer enforced, government seem no longer interested or care about this laws being enforced, and casinos also no longer take the enforcement of this laws serious since they themselves are also looking for more and more customers, and they seem not to mind serving underaged teenagers as well, this is a very bad thing in our society today and it's something we all must discourage.

[DaNNy001]

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.

It's worse than you think. Those kids are not gonna quit even if someone talks to them about the damage it's doing to them  since they were already exposed to it earlier. It'd be hard to break off such habit now if they're already doing it with their uniforms on? That's really wild. They now have their balls deep in gambling. Whatever you learn in your teen days, is gonna stick with you in life for sure. That's why I fear for those kids especially if they randomly win, the dopamine hit will push them to bet more.

I bet that there are still some smart kids amongst them who would discover the dangers and threats gambling pose to their finance, even without anyone telling or advising them. It's improper for a kid to gamble under the restricted approve age by the government and the gamble itself,  it lets not assume all the kid who would gamble under the he age are dumb enough not know what they are getting themselves into. Though their minds are not yet mature enough to make good informed decision, but let's not forget that they are becoming smarter than what we use to be at our team age.