Concerns grow over online gambling among teens

[wiss19]

The root of the problem is not schools. Do children spend all their time at school? No, and do they learn all these things from the school? No, they don't. So, I don't see how gambling prevention education can help lessen teen gambling when they have all the time and space to do their gambling activities after school.

The root of the problem is the upbringing, and also the advent of online gambling, of course. The advertisements shown everywhere do play a role in this but they aren't the basic reason for teens to get into gambling. If their parents and elders try, they can keep them away from such things.

Everything starts from home, if children are taught what they should be taught, they will only follow those things. The guy who wrote that article is young as well, why is he not into gambling but finds it disturbing or to be a problem for teens to gamble? It's all about awareness and it starts from the upbringing.

[sompitonov]

Of course, a lot depends on the parents, including upbringing and attitude towards gambling. If teenagers constantly see their father playing, then they will probably want to try it too. And even if he forbids them, they will find time and place for what he did not disturb them and will completely plunge into the world of excitement. Another difficulty is that it can be difficult for a teenager to explain and understand how dependent one can be; he can only do so through his own sad experience. Therefore, I sometimes wonder whether he will even be able to understand where this dependence begins, because even an adult cannot determine this very often.

Though their are lots of things that could hinder a child from being responsible which includes peer pressure, bad society, lack of quality upbringing and many others but it all falls back to the parents of that child, when a child is spoilt the society would say the parents didn't raise them properly and when it's the other way round all praises goes to the parent, therefore parents have a big role to play in raising their children.

 Children learn very fast especially at teenage age and a that age they'll want to explore and try out things whether good or bad, it's normal it human nature to tend to know especially at that age, that's why it's the duty of parents to provide proper guidance for their children, parents ought to drag them closer not only gibe them quality education in schools but also educate them at home concerning certain things and their consequences.

Some things that were explained to me at home probably saved me from dangerous things, including gambling, which I consider dangerous for teenagers. They do not yet fully perceive how dependent they can be on this and where the boundaries are. In general, when my children become teenagers, I will begin to explain many things to them, but this also needs to be done in a gentle way so as not to get the opposite effect from it.

Of course, a lot depends on the parents, including upbringing and attitude towards gambling. If teenagers constantly see their father playing, then they will probably want to try it too. And even if he forbids them, they will find time and place for what he did not disturb them and will completely plunge into the world of excitement.

Parents play the major role, but it is not only parents who are involved in bringing up a child. If you are close to a teen, they may learn some habits from you that their parents do not have, so you who is also not a parent, need to be careful so not to teach these children these habits unknowingly. If you gamble in front of teens, even though you are not their parents, you are indirectly teaching them to do it, and if they look up to you as a father-like figure, someone they can learn from, they will be influenced to try it.

Yes, this is true, and those who are not parents cannot understand that their bad habits are being copied. Sometimes even the parents themselves cannot understand where teenagers learned some inappropriate things. In addition, now they can learn various things using YouTube or the Internet. To be honest, I can’t even imagine how to control this, but I know that there are all sorts of applications to install and see what sites a teenager visits. Still, it is important to do this, because if this is not controlled, one day we will discover that he stole money from us for the game or something worse.

[danherbias07]

The root of the problem is not schools. Do children spend all their time at school? No, and do they learn all these things from the school? No, they don't. So, I don't see how gambling prevention education can help lessen teen gambling when they have all the time and space to do their gambling activities after school.

The root of the problem is the upbringing, and also the advent of online gambling, of course. The advertisements shown everywhere do play a role in this but they aren't the basic reason for teens to get into gambling. If their parents and elders try, they can keep them away from such things.

Everything starts from home, if children are taught what they should be taught, they will only follow those things. The guy who wrote that article is young as well, why is he not into gambling but finds it disturbing or to be a problem for teens to gamble? It's all about awareness and it starts from the upbringing.

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.
I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

[irhact]

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.
I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

I disagree with you at some point, growing up as a kid there are time I'll want to go astray and join other kids to misbehave but when I remember the kind of family am from, I'll take corrections immediately what I'm trying to say is that there are some core values you'll inculcate in your children and they'll always take corrections and won't be carried away by peer pressure.

 I still insist that parents have the major role to play in bringing up their kids, kids are like plants if you train them well they'll grow to flourish but when it goes the other way they'll get spoilt, so teaching your kids and letting them know the consequences of doing wrong is very important, if you don't do that other kids would help you spoil them and mislead them to wrong acts.

[Taskford]

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.
I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

I disagree with you at some point, growing up as a kid there are time I'll want to go astray and join other kids to misbehave but when I remember the kind of family am from, I'll take corrections immediately what I'm trying to say is that there are some core values you'll inculcate in your children and they'll always take corrections and won't be carried away by peer pressure.

 I still insist that parents have the major role to play in bringing up their kids, kids are like plants if you train them well they'll grow to flourish but when it goes the other way they'll get spoilt, so teaching your kids and letting them know the consequences of doing wrong is very important, if you don't do that other kids would help you spoil them and mislead them to wrong acts.

Hard to insist what we like them to do since there are instances that our child will resist especially if we are so strict regarding on doing those things that we like since there are chance that they won't obey us and will become rebellious. That's why sometimes I let my those young people to experience those things and make them realize that they would be on bad position if they gamble more especially if they experience losses since for sure they would realize that there's nothing to get for expecting a lot on gambling. Its just we just need to guide them all the time and we make sure to be available always when they need us especially on having a discussion on things that they don't understand.

[Zigabel]

Minors have a high tendency to indulge in gambling. As the gambling industry grows, in the same way the number of minors gamblers also increasing. Now this situation is almost out of control. Controlling it is also not an easy task. But if the casino sites make it mandatory to verify the KYC of each of their users, then minors can be brought back from this situation. But casino establishments never give importance to such restrictions. There are some institutions they require KYC from their clients but if one wants they can conduct their gambling without KYC. But if all the sites here follow the same rules then the users will be forced to do KYC and it is possible to control minors from such activities.

Makin KYC mandatory isn't actually a measure to getting the minors away from the casino because they are definitely still going to lie about their age and for that i don't think they have got another way of verifying how true that is actually but i know for sure that these minors will always increase their age so they can be allowed by the casino to gamble, until there is a measure to verify age then it may become possible to stop minors but until there's a proper means for age verification it will still be very difficult getting to be able to stop the minors totally but then KYC will help to check the identity of most gamblers.

Getting actual control over gamblers from been able to access the casino especially when the are not up to the age of gambling is actually not an easy task except there will be a separate way of proof for age for every gambler that will want to to be registered on the casino that will reduce the rate at which minors will have access to the casino, i know some will still want to forge the documents but it will only be possible with some so this policy will only reduce the rate at which minors try to gamble but its not going to totally stop it actually.

[Gozie51]

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.

Nothing is wrong with sex education. If a child gets to a certain age of puberty then the parents should take it upon themselves to teach that child what is happening on their body and not to be left alone by themselves or be taught by the "wrong" people. Of course, there is a reason they say it is a wise person that learns from someone's mistake.

I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

Well your analogy about sex education and gambling education is far different to be compared. Sex education is very important because it involves natural growth and compulsory growth and development on the human body of which the young adult need to know all is well but just another stage in life (at least this is an advantage human has above lower animals to vabally teach sex education to the young in the family).

So coming to this part of your gambling analogy, I think it is apt, your idea of not teaching children how to gamble until you notice them on it or they ask to know is quite proper. But it depends on the age that they are before they could start making such enquiry and again they will easily know what gambling is if the father is doing it right in their presence because children learn fast on what they see. Most children these days can operate the android phone even beyond one's expectation, so it is easy access to operate on gambling apps on the android phone if left for the children

[Mahanton]

I half agree with this because I don't really know if it will be good for the kids or not.
The same problem with teaching sex education. I don't know if that is a good thing too or not. Simply because I think kids will learn that normally and not by anyone trying to educate them. Gambling on the other hand is a bit different. If we are already making them aware of it, then it can be a problem soon.
I mean, I would not teach my children about it, as much as possible, I want them to be innocent about it when they grow up so that they won't even try it.
Giving them the idea could be the worst thing we will do or it could be good. I think it's still if they will remain clueless about it. But once they bump into it, I'd be ready to give some advise.

I disagree with you at some point, growing up as a kid there are time I'll want to go astray and join other kids to misbehave but when I remember the kind of family am from, I'll take corrections immediately what I'm trying to say is that there are some core values you'll inculcate in your children and they'll always take corrections and won't be carried away by peer pressure.

 I still insist that parents have the major role to play in bringing up their kids, kids are like plants if you train them well they'll grow to flourish but when it goes the other way they'll get spoilt, so teaching your kids and letting them know the consequences of doing wrong is very important, if you don't do that other kids would help you spoil them and mislead them to wrong acts.

This is why parenting is really that very crucial on which on the moment that you have that encountered a thing on which your parents had taught you about to avoid or to keep away from it then you would definitely be mainly thinking that you should avoid but of course it would really be that still depending on what kind or type of personality you do have since not all people would really be that having on the same mindset on which there are one who are really that too hard headed and there are ones who do stick with the rules on which been taught or given or made them realize then they would really be following and there are ones who would really be making out such involvement just because they've been that curious on what it is.We do know that once that curiosity would be kicking in then you would be tending to test it out. Some might be able to stop after that and there are ones who do get addicted in the end.

Gambling industry is really that becoming that big year by year on which it would really be that safe to say that it would really be that including those teens or those young people to get engaged with gambling.
There are really just that there are ones who arent that being that not being caught because gambling nowadays would really be that so easy and not being caught specially here on crypto space.
This would really be something that an individual problem into a certain family because there are indeed that who do experience because one of the family members that having such problem.
So it would really be case to case basis.

[Marykeller]

I believe we can start first from home to combat teens from gambling. Once we can get it from there, the high rate of gambling among teens will be minimized.

In families, parents play a major in the upbringing of their child's character and intellect before their teacher or the school authorities help out. If parents start to teach their children gambling prevention at an early stage as Oshosondy mentioned. We won't be seeing teens longing to gamble for money whereby they are to focus on their studies more than any other thing they could think of.

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.

[lizarder]

I believe we can start first from home to combat teens from gambling. Once we can get it from there, the high rate of gambling among teens will be minimized.

In families, parents play a major in the upbringing of their child's character and intellect before their teacher or the school authorities help out. If parents start to teach their children gambling prevention at an early stage as Oshosondy mentioned. We won't be seeing teens longing to gamble for money whereby they are to focus on their studies more than any other thing they could think of

I agree with the pattern of educating parents at home so that children have the ability to recognize the irresponsible nature of gambling and they can avoid addiction when they grow up as teenagers. Gambling is difficult to eradicate because now access is so easy to find on social media, but the role of parents in directing children not to get involved in gambling addiction is very important. To make things easier, give your children other workers who are more useful and like them so they don't try to find out about gambling.

Schools cannot control children because they only have time during school hours, whereas parents can carefully control their children and have much more time. Children should be able to focus more on studying and not be involved in gambling when they are still relatively young.

[ethereumhunter]

I believe we can start first from home to combat teens from gambling. Once we can get it from there, the high rate of gambling among teens will be minimized.

In families, parents play a major in the upbringing of their child's character and intellect before their teacher or the school authorities help out. If parents start to teach their children gambling prevention at an early stage as Oshosondy mentioned. We won't be seeing teens longing to gamble for money whereby they are to focus on their studies more than any other thing they could think of.

If we wants to do something to those who playing gambling, including teens, we must do carefully because if we use the hard way, they will not accept it easily and will thinks that we interfere their business (they often says like that). We can use different approaches to them such as we trying to gets close to them and find out what they do and trying to gives advices to them. If we can closer to them with good and without trying to tells them with a loudly, we may have chance to knows what their reasons to playing gambling and we can gets close to them. They may accept our advices and will trying to reduce or even stops their gambling activity, especially if we can shows them many examples how gambling can ruins their lives.

Parents play the main role for their children so parents must be their good friends and not just their parents so their children can share many things to their parents. It will makes a closer relationships between parents and children so children will knows where their border and will not trying to breaks it.

[panjul07]

I agree with the pattern of educating parents at home so that children have the ability to recognize the irresponsible nature of gambling and they can avoid addiction when they grow up as teenagers. Gambling is difficult to eradicate because now access is so easy to find on social media, but the role of parents in directing children not to get involved in gambling addiction is very important. To make things easier, give your children other workers who are more useful and like them so they don't try to find out about gambling.

Schools cannot control children because they only have time during school hours, whereas parents can carefully control their children and have much more time. Children should be able to focus more on studying and not be involved in gambling when they are still relatively young.

Having both gambling education from school and from parents will be better, at least if the students do not really get the lesson at school then they may get it from their parents and vice versa.
In these modern era, we cant say that parents have more time to educate their children because of many things.
When the parents are so busy with their work then they will have less time to talk with their children, on the other side, children are now also having their own activities outside school.
I will be agreeing if there is a special gambling education and/or other education about morality because for me school is not only place to learn about  science, math, language, etc but it should be a place to learn how to be good person as well.

[Crypt0Gore]

Come to think of this, it is a big problem if young people are not taught about gambling, I so agree with this idea of lecturing teens about gambling in schools but at the same time some teens don't get into gambling because of their environment, no one is doing it and they don't need to, if gambling lectures are brought to school it will be more eye-opening to everyone in these schools.

One the reasons why gamblers get addicted all started with how they start gambling from they one, they have no idea what they are about to do and they get lucky, it then becomes a part of them.

The world is turning into a more tasking place to be, it feels like the dead are the lucky ones, money is now a problem for everyone, including kids in schools, I wonder how many will focus on their educations if a part of them is worried about surviving, and since some gamblers are still getting lucky it makes these teen feel like they are the next on the line to make some good amount of money from gambling.

If you are a parent with teens at home, you should consider talking about gambling to them, you may never know who is into gambling already and hiding it from you all this while, don't wait until they are been thought in school, this is just an advice, it may never be implemented.

[YOSHIE]

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?

@Colby Cotrone, research and say the right things, many of us see teenagers or adults who don't know and realize what they are doing, if asked what you are playing.
They answered, I don't know, seeing people gambling there, I want to do it too.

Concerns about teenagers should be monitored, many teenagers nowadays do things on the basis of following along, without paying attention and understanding the risks they are doing, including installing online gambling sites, With the current era of advanced technology, we are aware that everything is easy to access with Android, without considering all forms of risks that occur, we just hope that in the future, especially teenagers, there will be the basics of a special curriculum in schools about how dangerous gambling is for them.

[Wakate]

I believe we can start first from home to combat teens from gambling. Once we can get it from there, the high rate of gambling among teens will be minimized.

In families, parents play a major in the upbringing of their child's character and intellect before their teacher or the school authorities help out. If parents start to teach their children gambling prevention at an early stage as Oshosondy mentioned. We won't be seeing teens longing to gamble for money whereby they are to focus on their studies more than any other thing they could think of.

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.

The rate of online gambling by teens is quite alarming and the government need to do something about it. This might be very difficult to prevent because their are so many online casinos that do not require kyc and teens would see that as an advantage to avoid kyc casinos.

 Many people are finding online gambling platform a suitable place to bet living the physical casinos so people would not know that they are into gambling. We could make money in gambling if we know how to play the right games that are going to be profitable for us. Many teens do not care about if they are winning or not but only care about there curiosity to win huge spending funds that should be wise for something else to gamble.

[Stable090]

There are some institutions they require KYC from their clients but if one wants they can conduct their gambling without KYC. But if all the sites here follow the same rules then the users will be forced to do KYC and it is possible to control minors from such activities.

Making Kyc mandatory might not completely solve the problem, I know making Kyc mandatory by a gambling site might be helpful, but that won’t stop teens from gambling completely. Most of them will end up looking for ways in which they are going to use other people's identities for KYC,  some might even use their parents identification cards to complete KYC on gambling sites just to be able to gamble. If you are desperate to gamble, you can do anything to get access to gambling sites. It’s better right from home you should discourage your children from gambling and make sure you monitor their activities.

[Gheka]

The root of the problem is not schools. Do children spend all their time at school? No, and do they learn all these things from the school? No, they don't. So, I don't see how gambling prevention education can help lessen teen gambling when they have all the time and space to do their gambling activities after school.

The root of the problem is the upbringing, and also the advent of online gambling, of course. The advertisements shown everywhere do play a role in this but they aren't the basic reason for teens to get into gambling. If their parents and elders try, they can keep them away from such things.

Everything starts from home, if children are taught what they should be taught, they will only follow those things. The guy who wrote that article is young as well, why is he not into gambling but finds it disturbing or to be a problem for teens to gamble? It's all about awareness and it starts from the upbringing.

More precisely, education only plays a relatively small role most of the time, children may study in the morning and afternoon but they still have a lot of leisure time to communicate with the media and society, and honestly, this era is the golden age of advertising, it's hard to keep a safe distance between teenagers and gambling. What the family and society need to receive is the formation of consciousness and becoming a mirror of reflection, fully reflects a good world as well as still retains the fun of gambling, despite the increase in gambling among teenagers, it is still in the safe zone to deal with easily

[cabron]

The root of the problem is not schools. Do children spend all their time at school? No, and do they learn all these things from the school? No, they don't. So, I don't see how gambling prevention education can help lessen teen gambling when they have all the time and space to do their gambling activities after school.

The root of the problem is the upbringing, and also the advent of online gambling, of course. The advertisements shown everywhere do play a role in this but they aren't the basic reason for teens to get into gambling. If their parents and elders try, they can keep them away from such things.

Everything starts from home, if children are taught what they should be taught, they will only follow those things. The guy who wrote that article is young as well, why is he not into gambling but finds it disturbing or to be a problem for teens to gamble? It's all about awareness and it starts from the upbringing.

More precisely, education only plays a relatively small role most of the time, children may study in the morning and afternoon but they still have a lot of leisure time to communicate with the media and society, and honestly, this era is the golden age of advertising, it's hard to keep a safe distance between teenagers and gambling. What the family and society need to receive is the formation of consciousness and becoming a mirror of reflection, fully reflects a good world as well as still retains the fun of gambling, despite the increase in gambling among teenagers, it is still in the safe zone to deal with easily

And this is why there is a suggestion about monitoring who could download the apps. These AI adverts are just smart to target individuals who are introduced to gambling. Kids who are fans of sports are encouraged to participate in gambling because of these adverts and the apps are enabling them.

Regulating these adverts however will require digital IDs which are also not approved by anyone. I myself doesn't want digital IDs. Which I think there really is the need for parents to keep educating their kids if possible, checking which apps should be on thier phones.

[Silberman]

And this is why there is a suggestion about monitoring who could download the apps. These AI adverts are just smart to target individuals who are introduced to gambling. Kids who are fans of sports are encouraged to participate in gambling because of these adverts and the apps are enabling them.

Regulating these adverts however will require digital IDs which are also not approved by anyone. I myself doesn't want digital IDs. Which I think there really is the need for parents to keep educating their kids if possible, checking which apps should be on thier phones.

More regulation is not needed for this problem, as teens could easily find a way around them, after all it is not as if online gambling is all what it exist, since they could just gamble among their friends and there is no way to block them with online solutions if they do that, so what it needs to be done is to start prevention campaigns that show them that gambling at such an early age is not good for them and it is illegal, besides with that money most likely being given to them by their parents and not really belonging to them, they have no right at all to gamble that money away anyway.

[Fortify]

"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?

This goes along with poor financial education in general, although I can only hope has improved in the last decade. You should never try to "prevent" anything when it comes to teaching, as making it look exclusive or restricted will appeal to younger audiences, potentially making them want to chase it more. A better approach would be to just make sure they have all the facts and education, so before they even enter a casino, they know they are going to lose money at most games inside. Describing the math and odds involved in a relatable way is key to helping them understand.