Concerns grow over online gambling among teens

[cabron]

"It's time for schools to focus on the root cause of online teen gambling by implementing gambling prevention education in all high schools. Health class curricula across the nation cover the typical risks for teens such as smoking, drinking, vaping, etc yet gambling education is nowhere to be found in our schools. "

This is what Colby Cotrone said when interviewed by NBC News about the article he published in NYpost about the online gambling trend among teens causing concern because, in the school halls, they can already overhear teens checking odds and their parlays like it's the most casual thing to do in the campus. This is due to the gambling apps easily downloaded by anyone.

When Marc Potenza the Director of the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research was asked whether they were seeing young patients calling for help, he said there is an increase of 90% in young males with sports gambling problems. Either the patient himself or the parents calling for them. https://youtu.be/pCDbvDDLpFg?t=313

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

[Davidvictorson]

The gambling industry is growing into more a trillion dollar industry and there are more people who are gambling now than ever before and it is increasing. Sadly on the underaged gambling is also on the rise and if it is not checked it becomes a epidemic that may be difficult for countries and government to control. Right now, it is still at the starting stage and the government needs to act fast. I know they are doing a lot of TV, radio, internet campaigns against under-gambling but they need to take it a bit further by going into schools, and yes inputting preventing gambling education in schools. They need to have counselors talk to students about the dangers of gambling addiction and having an open door policy for students to be able to freely talk about their struggles with gambling and then offering them help three of charge.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

Implementing gambling prevention education in schools, to me is never the best solution when it comes to gambling and other vices such as smoking & alcohol, but rather teaching these teens about the advantage and disadvantages of gambling is the best solution ever, because you never can tell, a child who was prevented, can travel to a certain area, and turn to an addict, simply because he/she wasn't told the basic advantage or disadvantages of his action. Hence, if we make education about gambling a priority, and how it affects the society both positively and negatively, I'm sure there are teens who are also likely pick a side with the knowledge acquired.

Secondly, if massive jobs are created, most teens you see today gambling won't gamble, as more than 50% of the teen you see today, gamble for survival. (I.e For basic amenities such as food, shelter and clothing)

[teamsherry]

That's the bad side of online gambling, you can't really control the users you get, even with the under 18 rule, teenagers can just lie and still get access to gambleing features, I think they have to get more strict and find better ways to keep teenagers off gambling sites, maybe by taking some birth certificate as part of their kyc verification, I think that would reduce the amount if teenagers in online casino.

[Rruchi man]

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

It is a bureaucratic process for the school curriculum to be reviewed and the whole thing may take a lot of time if any subject like gambling prevention is going to be implemented into school education.

Do not wait for the school to teach your children the things that you could teach them from home, sometimes your children will learn better from you than they learn from their your teachers because they see you as a better example than a teacher that they don't know.

Trying to prevent your children from knowing about gambling at all will not help because you do not follow them around and there are lots of gambling advertisements everywhere even from their peers, as a parent or a guardian it should be your responsibility to expose them to it at home and intimate them on the dangers and why it is necessary for them to become adults first before they start gambling.

[Assface16678]

That's the bad side of online gambling, you can't really control the users you get, even with the under 18 rule, teenagers can just lie and still get access to gambleing features, I think they have to get more strict and find better ways to keep teenagers off gambling sites, maybe by taking some birth certificate as part of their kyc verification, I think that would reduce the amount if teenagers in online casino.

Exactly, the internet now is too powerful, and even young people can navigate the internet well and can bypass a lot of things, and one of them is online gambling. It's true that many younger people are being exposed to gambling because right now the internet or social media are open to this, and we know a lot of young people are already on social media. No matter what guidance a parent will give, they can't look out for or guide their children's 24/7, so there's still a moment where a child could explore for itself and be in a bad influence.

That's why KYC is very important now for an online casino because in that way a platform could determine what age their customer is. I know it can also be bypassed, but I think there should be more adjustment or another layer of validation before a user could actually sign up and play on a gambling platform.

[Oshosondy]

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

If gambling prevention education is done for below 18s, it will even help those above 18s that were taught the lesson during their under 18 ages. I will like to see this kind of thing but I do not think it would be possible.

The best education children can have is from home. Parents should start teaching their children gambling prevention education. So that if the children wants to gamble later when they are grown ups, they will know they should use small amount of money which would have been part of the education.

[Gozie51]

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

There is a reason that children are excused from certain crime until they are up to certain age and that is because of their capacity to reason, to know good from bad and that is the intentional act unlike the adult that the ignorance of the law is not excuse. So it is excusable for kids to gamble in ignorance and when they use money from their parents to do that, they are still not going to be blamed, and so who will be blamed if the kids turn to gambling, that is the parents. The parents are to be blamed when their children take to gambling especially at a certain age. Children don't just grow up to gambling, no. They grow into seeing their fathers doing it. Therefore, it is very important that children are guided, if the father avoid gambling in the presense of the children, then they are already limited from knowing that from the home. Further guide is the school and friends. And some parents don't give a damn what the children are doing with their android phone which has already made gambling easier for them.

[AprilioMP]

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing about implementing gambling prevention education in schools, but in my opinion the most likely action is implementing a rule of not having a smartphone before the age of 18 which is better to prevent perceived hostility towards online gambling.

Preventing gambling is the same as blocking income from taxes because the gambling industry has set an age limit for players who can play.
By implementing the rule that students cannot have smartphones, children's psychology is much more developed with natural experiments.

[ryzaadit]

IMO, it's because the easy advertiser can be published by the casino.

Like, mostly we all know these kids know about gambling is not because of watching (TV), or seeing sponsors on bars, billboards or t-shirts. Mostly they're getting the information about gambling from streamer/youtube. Gambling casino are easily to advertiser their site with them, and we all know the audience mostly 70-80% are under age. Due everyone access via online, it's make gambling more easy on online rather than in landbase casino.

If authority want to take these case really seriously, they need to step in for any kind of sponsor in stream site/youtube and something like that.

[bakasabo]

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

Parents teach their kids from very beginning that everything cost money in this world. Parents teach kids about investing, at least how to do purchases in store. And the kids say that they were not aware what they were doing when they placed a money bet? I dont believe in that. I dont expel the fact that the gambling problem exist, but such excuse as "we did not know what we were doing" is lame.

[Hewlet]

Generally speaking, th whole school curriculum needs to be changed or improved upon to meet with what's the reality of the present day society.

Topics like gambling, financial literacy, marriage and relationship, updated carrier options and other relevant issues that really butresss on what's prevalent at the society now needs to get into the curriculum and taught in a such a way that they don't just paint the bad side of these concept but put in effort to create a neutral ground such that theses kids don't feel as though they are being deprived access to these kind of things without telling them the reason why it's not advisable to go into active gambling as a teenager.

Believe it or not, an average 10 year old boy now knows how betting works and is very conversant with all the clubs and when they have spare resource, they go all out into betting all their money out. And these are the people that end up becoming seriously addicted to gambling when they eventually grows up. Catching our kids young require that they be educated to learning the right thing at the right time and in the right way and gambling education is a must topic that needs to be taught in our school or else we end up having young adult or will have the mentality that they can always get a big win through gambling and then thier life will change forever thereby lazying around gambling all day.

[Baofeng]

The gambling industry is growing into more a trillion dollar industry and there are more people who are gambling now than ever before and it is increasing. Sadly on the underaged gambling is also on the rise and if it is not checked it becomes a epidemic that may be difficult for countries and government to control. Right now, it is still at the starting stage and the government needs to act fast. I know they are doing a lot of TV, radio, internet campaigns against under-gambling but they need to take it a bit further by going into schools, and yes inputting preventing gambling education in schools. They need to have counselors talk to students about the dangers of gambling addiction and having an open door policy for students to be able to freely talk about their struggles with gambling and then offering them help three of charge.

I do agree, and it used be a billion dollar industry, but gambling now whether online and offline are a billion dollar industry. Perhaps it has something to do with the pandemic when everyone is at one doing nothing or got bored and then we see the rise of online platform.

Anyhow, yeah, even here in our neighborhood I have seen a lot of teenagers going into online gambling. And just a couple of days ago I know someone who won big, but then again in the next couple of days he losses everything and now can't focus on his studies because he has tasted that huge money and wanted to repeat the same experience. And it's really a bad influence to the underage or youth and we really need parents to be very mindful of their kids so that they won't be addicted to it.

[junder]

Exactly, the internet now is too powerful, and even young people can navigate the internet well and can bypass a lot of things, and one of them is online gambling. It's true that many younger people are being exposed to gambling because right now the internet or social media are open to this, and we know a lot of young people are already on social media. No matter what guidance a parent will give, they can't look out for or guide their children's 24/7, so there's still a moment where a child could explore for itself and be in a bad influence.

That's why KYC is very important now for an online casino because in that way a platform could determine what age their customer is. I know it can also be bypassed, but I think there should be more adjustment or another layer of validation before a user could actually sign up and play on a gambling platform.

Indeed, the development of technology now makes everything easier, including gambling. now that online gambling has made it easier for everyone to get to know it, because many people spend their daily lives on the internet and social media and the gambling industry also takes advantage of this by placing as many advertisements as possible on the internet so it is not surprising that many people are familiar with online gambling and do online gambling, especially for those who are teenagers or adults, of course they will occasionally see gambling advertisements on social media because the majority of young people use social media in their daily lives, even for studying, sometimes they use the internet and social media.

It's true what you say about parents who cannot guide and supervise their children all day long, but parents' upbringing and guidance is of course necessary, even though there are times when they will determine their relationships, parents' upbringing also influences them, if parents educate and guide them properly. good and right, maybe his child will be able to differentiate between good and bad things. As long as I gamble online on various platforms, I have never registered on a gambling platform and written down my age, but is there a platform like that?

[Jawhead999]

Isn't education about gambling prevention or gambling addiction has been exist since long time? I remember there was few non profit organization conduct a seminar when I was a kid.

By implementing the rule that students cannot have smartphones, children's psychology is much more developed with natural experiments.

This has been implemented, but students won't be in school for 24 hours, they can stop playing their phones in school, but they can freely play it when they're in home. If you complain why the parents let they to play phones in home instead of restrict them, you need to know if their parents are busy. His dad need to work all the time, while his mom need to take care the house and anything everyday.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

"It's time for schools to focus on the root cause of online teen gambling by implementing gambling prevention education in all high schools. Health class curricula across the nation cover the typical risks for teens such as smoking, drinking, vaping, etc yet gambling education is nowhere to be found in our schools. "

This is what [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDbvDDLpFg]Colby Cotrone said when interviewed by NBC News about the article he published in NYpost about the online gambling trend among teens causing concern because, in the school halls, they can already overhear teens checking odds and their parlays like it's the most casual thing to do in the campus. This is due to the gambling apps easily downloaded by anyone.

When Marc Potenza the Director of the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research was asked whether they were seeing young patients calling for help, he said there is an increase of 90% in young males with sports gambling problems. Either the patient himself or the parents calling for them. https://youtu.be/pCDbvDDLpFg?t=313

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

I did be surprised if anyone said he or she did not see this coming, judging from the way that inflation have more than tripped the cost of every thing in that world, which also generally include in the cost of living which have more than tripped over the years.
Clearly, some parents can no longer provide for their kids any more like they used to, so this kids and teens have to find the easiest way to provide or fend for themselves, and this is why alot of them are turning to gambling as a way of making money for themselves while in school.

Personally, I do not think introducing a gambling education will be productive in reducing the number of teens that are already into gambling, and stopping those coming in, I think rather, that introducing gambling education will be counter-productive in the sense that, it may end up acting as a gambling advertisement to the young ones who are yet to get into it, we all know that teen of nowadays want to explore, and are most likely to do that which they are advised not to do.

The only solution I think is for the government to work very closely with both online and offline casinos to impose stricter rules and punishment for any teen who is not up to the specified age, that is caught gambling, this I think will be more effective in reducing and curbing the number of underaged teenage gamblers.

[danherbias07]

I agree that it should be implemented.
The growth of the gambling industry is too fast. Advertisements of gambling applications are plastered all over different sports either while the game is going or in commercials. Then, there's the advertisements on the internet so everywhere they look they will see these ads and at one point they will click it because they are too curious about it.

There's the wrong thing, it becomes money first before "fun as a fan". It should be the other way around. Because if we always think about the money first, we tend to get revenge and then chase the losses by doubling the amount next time we bet unlike those having fun as a fan first, they might just bet the same amount over and over again because they are just looking for that additional spice while watching their favorite sport.

[Oasisman]

Isn't education about gambling prevention or gambling addiction has been exist since long time? I remember there was few non profit organization conduct a seminar when I was a kid.

I have also remembered something like this during my high school year. Though it was not part of the curriculum, If I remember it correctly it was a twice a year kind of student seminar called career development. It discusses how to become successful with choosing ones career and how avoid being addicted with bad vices and that includes gambling.
Well, in todays generation, if students got involve in an online gambling, then I think the schools and educators should get a separate education that focuses the effects of gambling and the regulators should do their part as well, otherwise these numbers would surprisingly spike multiple times in the next coming years because of its easy accessibility.

[AprilioMP]

By implementing the rule that students cannot have smartphones, children's psychology is much more developed with natural experiments.

This has been implemented, but students won't be in school for 24 hours, they can stop playing their phones in school, but they can freely play it when they're in home. If you complain why the parents let they to play phones in home instead of restrict them, you need to know if their parents are busy. His dad need to work all the time, while his mom need to take care the house and anything everyday.

I don't complain about the busyness of parents who spend time working for the sake of family life which includes the needs of children.
From me, perhaps there is no solution that can be conveyed here regarding this matter other than preparing yourself when one day you become a parent because initially I thought that the implementation of the rule that children under the age of 18 cannot have a smartphone had not yet been implemented.
My initial conclusion after reading your post means I can't say whether I agree or not because I'm stuck with ideas.

[_act_]

Isn't education about gambling prevention or gambling addiction has been exist since long time? I remember there was few non profit organization conduct a seminar when I was a kid.

Gambling education could have been existing since a long time ago but not common or not existing in some countries. I can say that there is nothing like gambling education in Asia and Africa. I do not think it is common in North America, Europe and South America and Australia. We only even saw this today but which could be ineffective. What we noticed more is that gambling is becoming more common among teen and the under aged are not given a better education on gambling.