Concerns grow over online gambling among teens

[HONDACD125]

Kids should not be let off that easy, after all it is their own life they are ruining, so just as they can use those devices to gamble at such an early age, they could also use them to make a quick internet search and see for themselves the effects gambling could have on their young and impressionable eyes, but they do not do it, so they share the responsibility even if their parents were careless, as they have a responsibility towards themselves to try to get the best outcomes they can get for their own sake.

A kid, if not matured yet, doesn't understand much even though they think they do. You will often see kids saying that they know what they are doing and they can manage but they are all just words and they can't manage anything if they get in trouble, they can't even control their minds and emotions if they get into some difficult situation. So you can't say that the kids shouldn't be let off easily because it's their lives and they need to take responsibility.

We can only expect our kids to take responsibility of their lives once we know they have matured enough to understand everything very well and that they aren't doing to do things that can be harmful for them or anyone around them, but before that point, it's our responsibility as parents to make sure that our kids stay away from things that can harm them in anyway be it mentally, physically, or financially.

[shivansps]

"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 is the whole problem. When we talk about adults who gamble, we see many people who have problems with addiction and the fact that they cannot control their emotions. When we talk about children, everything becomes even more complicated. After all, children do not have the same experience, knowledge and maturity as adults, and they also do not bear responsibility for their actions. That is, children need to be protected much more from gambling as well as from drugs. I am very glad that in that place there is prevention of issues related to gambling in schools, this is very correct

[Nwada001]

You can call me regressive but I am against teaching kids things who are not really supposed to do because giving the information may tempt them to try it cause that's the age when we want to try anything that gives thrill but they are not really ready to consume such things but can touch the basics of addictions that cover the wide range including smoking,porn, alcohol and as well as gambling too other than that telling them you should not do might go the opposite way.

There is an age that a child will reach in life where, even if you don't teach them about a particular thing, they will either come across it in one way or another, either through social interaction with friends or on the internet. They will definitely have to learn about it.
 
You can't just walk up to 6-7 years old and start telling them about gambling or other activities you either want them to stay away from or learn how to handle; it's at least from their adolescent stage where you know their mind is prepared for what you are going to educate them about.
 
I personally don't see anything wrong with teaching a child about the things they need to know before they learn them by themselves.

[AliMan]

There's nothing to argue on this, gambling towards students shouldn't be permitted and what I saw them started learning gambling at younger age isn't appropriate. They're using funds which comes from their parents in which totally wasted from their allowances, and that's really devastating as a parent of these young ones.
Teens is really vulnerable when it comes to emotions, they always tend to lose control and most of them got problems with money because of gambling. They're mind is broad and the possibility of doing something wrong just to gain money out of limit could potentially formed with their individual thoughts. That's what we don't want to happen, because negative outcome might arise as their social being will be much affected, so parents and guardians should pay attention.

[LDL]

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.

Whether you ask to do KYC verification with birth registration or any other information, teenagers will definitely do it because they will steal their parents' identification and do KYC verification. If the teenagers are not self-aware and restrained, there is no way to stop them from getting attracted to this online gambling. No matter how much we as Guardian counsel against online gambling it will not help as it can never be stopped even if it is officially stopped then teenagers access the gambling sites by using VPNs from different countries.

[rachael9385]

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.

Whether you ask to do KYC verification with birth registration or any other information, teenagers will definitely do it because they will steal their parents' identification and do KYC verification. If the teenagers are not self-aware and restrained, there is no way to stop them from getting attracted to this online gambling. No matter how much we as Guardian counsel against online gambling it will not help as it can never be stopped even if it is officially stopped then teenagers access the gambling sites by using VPNs from different countries.

Most times it's not all about teenagers, it's about having the KYC requirements. When it comes to a casino that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits, if they use their parents or friends or any elderly person in closer to them to verify KYC, when time to withdraw the winnings definitely there will be an issue because the bank names and the documents that was used to verify the KYC will not be the same. Both the date of birth and names will be different, and still, most casinos that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits also request for facial verification, so if the face on the documents and the person didn't match then it the verification will not work.

[GigaBit]

Most times it's not all about teenagers, it's about having the KYC requirements. When it comes to a casino that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits, if they use their parents or friends or any elderly person in closer to them to verify KYC, when time to withdraw the winnings definitely there will be an issue because the bank names and the documents that was used to verify the KYC will not be the same. Both the date of birth and names will be different, and still, most casinos that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits also request for facial verification, so if the face on the documents and the person didn't match then it the verification will not work.

I don't think minors or teens will have any problem if they are gambling on non KYC based online casino platforms. If they use KYC based casino platforms then they will definitely face problems. Because they monitor personal photos along with KYC documents. If there is any doubt then there will be no KYC approval. However, there are many gambling sites that require KYC but do not strictly verify KYC. No documents are required even if only name and address are requested. Minors can indulge in gambling on those platforms. Minors can be controlled by proper care but adults can never be controlled if they are not vigilant on their own.

[ethereumhunter]

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.

Whether you ask to do KYC verification with birth registration or any other information, teenagers will definitely do it because they will steal their parents' identification and do KYC verification. If the teenagers are not self-aware and restrained, there is no way to stop them from getting attracted to this online gambling. No matter how much we as Guardian counsel against online gambling it will not help as it can never be stopped even if it is officially stopped then teenagers access the gambling sites by using VPNs from different countries.

Teenagers who can use Internet properly will knows how to do KYC, even if they should lie, they will do that because gambling can makes them back over and over. Teenagers can gets tempts easily to playing gambling without thinks about what will happens to them if they lose money and becomes addicted to gambling.

It needs awareness from parents so they can always watch and supervise their teenagers not to playing gambling in their age. Parents must use many ways to keeps close to their children, especially in this new era because teenagers like them can easily to understand many things in the internet. Parents should be worry with situation now because many information is not filter by teenagers and they can use that for themselves without thinks much. That's why parents always takes care of their children and make sure that parents can do their job to protects their children from any bad things.

[cabron]

Most times it's not all about teenagers, it's about having the KYC requirements. When it comes to a casino that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits, if they use their parents or friends or any elderly person in closer to them to verify KYC, when time to withdraw the winnings definitely there will be an issue because the bank names and the documents that was used to verify the KYC will not be the same. Both the date of birth and names will be different, and still, most casinos that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits also request for facial verification, so if the face on the documents and the person didn't match then it the verification will not work.

I don't think minors or teens will have any problem if they are gambling on non KYC based online casino platforms. If they use KYC based casino platforms then they will definitely face problems. Because they monitor personal photos along with KYC documents. If there is any doubt then there will be no KYC approval. However, there are many gambling sites that require KYC but do not strictly verify KYC. No documents are required even if only name and address are requested. Minors can indulge in gambling on those platforms. Minors can be controlled by proper care but adults can never be controlled if they are not vigilant on their own.

When relying upon just parents it will still be the same since they can't do much to stop the trend from playing if they are addicted already. I think the focus should be on preventing these teens from downloading gambling apps.

It may sound dystopian but the government can do something with this by many of us also wouldn't like it especially if they use AI and government accessing phone data and telcom using the demographics to prevent users from using google play or istore to download apps when you're a teen.

[Accardo]

Most times it's not all about teenagers, it's about having the KYC requirements. When it comes to a casino that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits, if they use their parents or friends or any elderly person in closer to them to verify KYC, when time to withdraw the winnings definitely there will be an issue because the bank names and the documents that was used to verify the KYC will not be the same. Both the date of birth and names will be different, and still, most casinos that doesn't accept crypto currency for deposits also request for facial verification, so if the face on the documents and the person didn't match then it the verification will not work.

I don't think minors or teens will have any problem if they are gambling on non KYC based online casino platforms. If they use KYC based casino platforms then they will definitely face problems. Because they monitor personal photos along with KYC documents. If there is any doubt then there will be no KYC approval. However, there are many gambling sites that require KYC but do not strictly verify KYC. No documents are required even if only name and address are requested. Minors can indulge in gambling on those platforms. Minors can be controlled by proper care but adults can never be controlled if they are not vigilant on their own.

If they use the details of their elderly ones, nothing would be difficult with accepting the funds with the person's account details. How would the casino understand who is actually using the account? The online casino settings are hardly designed properly for detecting young gamblers. However, non KYC casino are reducing every day as the government is clamping down on them. Only telegram based casinos could be accessible for players to play without kyc.

The growth of social media platforms is actually benefiting businesses like casinos, but hunts consumers, gamblers. Especially the young players who don't have enough control over their emotions. With the institution of the KYC policy being mainly impactful on money laundering and other financial crime issues, the focus on young people may not be the goal. Assuming it was, the government would have found ways to amend such an aggressive marketing of casinos to underaged audience.

[Zigabel]

This is the whole problem. When we talk about adults who gamble, we see many people who have problems with addiction and the fact that they cannot control their emotions. When we talk about children, everything becomes even more complicated. After all, children do not have the same experience, knowledge and maturity as adults, and they also do not bear responsibility for their actions. That is, children need to be protected much more from gambling as well as from drugs. I am very glad that in that place there is prevention of issues related to gambling in schools, this is very correct

Protecting children from gambling is of great concerns but then it has not really been effective because there have not been a proven and confirmed way of identifying the difference between children gambling and adults gambling on an online casino platform, most times even during KYC, these kids still find their way to forge their information and make the casinos believe they have provided true information so they can gain access to the casino and be able to participate in gambling.

It's easier to get children to stop gambling if you are able to get them earlier enough when they are just starting just before they get addicted, with adults it usually very different and not like the same as it would be with children because you cannot restrict an adult as you would to a child.

[iBaba]

This is the whole problem. When we talk about adults who gamble, we see many people who have problems with addiction and the fact that they cannot control their emotions. When we talk about children, everything becomes even more complicated. After all, children do not have the same experience, knowledge and maturity as adults, and they also do not bear responsibility for their actions. That is, children need to be protected much more from gambling as well as from drugs. I am very glad that in that place there is prevention of issues related to gambling in schools, this is very correct

And this is the most scary part of the gambling thing. Allowing teenagers to be exposed to gambling to the extent of being victims of addiction in gambling is absolutely a sad aspect of gambling. I would also like to mention that online gambling as a matter of fact has significantly increased the chances of teenagers' involvement in gambling to the level of becoming addicts. Before the advent of the online gambling, it was easy for the adults especially the old ones to control the exposure of these teenagers to gambling as many parents will leave their homes to gambling centres and locations that the family particularly the children will not be away of their whereabouts or gambling activities.

[DaNNy001]

There's nothing to argue on this, gambling towards students shouldn't be permitted and what I saw them started learning gambling at younger age isn't appropriate. They're using funds which comes from their parents in which totally wasted from their allowances, and that's really devastating as a parent of these young ones.
Teens is really vulnerable when it comes to emotions, they always tend to lose control and most of them got problems with money because of gambling. They're mind is broad and the possibility of doing something wrong just to gain money out of limit could potentially formed with their individual thoughts. That's what we don't want to happen, because negative outcome might arise as their social being will be much affected, so parents and guardians should pay attention.

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

[Raflesia]

There's nothing to argue on this, gambling towards students shouldn't be permitted and what I saw them started learning gambling at younger age isn't appropriate. They're using funds which comes from their parents in which totally wasted from their allowances, and that's really devastating as a parent of these young ones.
Teens is really vulnerable when it comes to emotions, they always tend to lose control and most of them got problems with money because of gambling. They're mind is broad and the possibility of doing something wrong just to gain money out of limit could potentially formed with their individual thoughts. That's what we don't want to happen, because negative outcome might arise as their social being will be much affected, so parents and guardians should pay attention.

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

Actually, for social media promotion issues related to advertising on the Internet, what I feel is that it depends on the traffic seen from our initial search. So in this case it could be that gambling advertisements or promotions are not seen by children if in the end they are not looking for it, but what happens is the opposite when we search for things related to gambling then surely traffic on social media or advertising will also follow.

Therefore, this is the role of parents so that they can guide their children so that they are not exposed to gambling, indeed this is difficult because in the end when children have explored it is sometimes difficult to stop but as much as possible we as parents must try as much as possible so that children do not do things that should not be done at their age. The role of parents is quite crucial here because even though we are still a gambler and we also still allow children to gamble when they grow up, but at least we must also try to protect so that children's productive age is not misused with gambling because it is not suitable for their current age (when they are teenagers).

[Orpichukwu]

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

Some country government like Bulgaria due to the high level of gambling by the youth which they believe is as a result of online advertisement place ban on gambling and it’s related ads on social media which can be visible to their citizens, according to them they said it’s a means to reduce the level of exposure the teens get to gambling since they have free access to the internet.

[Winterfrost]

There's nothing to argue on this, gambling towards students shouldn't be permitted and what I saw them started learning gambling at younger age isn't appropriate. They're using funds which comes from their parents in which totally wasted from their allowances, and that's really devastating as a parent of these young ones.
Teens is really vulnerable when it comes to emotions, they always tend to lose control and most of them got problems with money because of gambling. They're mind is broad and the possibility of doing something wrong just to gain money out of limit could potentially formed with their individual thoughts. That's what we don't want to happen, because negative outcome might arise as their social being will be much affected, so parents and guardians should pay attention.

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

The world is heading to a point where a person should be completely responsible for his actions with out involving the media and internet as the reason why they were exposed and getting to pertake in such acts. No matter the level of restriction on the internet, it is completely impossible to totally stop these teens from getting involved into gambling, not forgetting that information can be passed through physical meetings by same teens which will stir the other to try gambling aswell.

[bakasabo]

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

Some country government like Bulgaria due to the high level of gambling by the youth which they believe is as a result of online advertisement place ban on gambling and it’s related ads on social media which can be visible to their citizens, according to them they said it’s a means to reduce the level of exposure the teens get to gambling since they have free access to the internet.

But if a person already knows or can get easy information about gambling, will reduce of ads seen really help? For example I dont see a lot of Coca-Cola ads around, but if I am thirsty, I most likely buy it. Or the situation with cigarettes. They are not seen at the shops, often behind nontransparent shelves, no ads, but people smoke a lot anyway. Even the high cost of cigarettes does not help.

Btw, if gambling gains popularity among teens, I wonder where they always get money from. They dont work, they cant ask endlessly money from parents. Then how come number of teen gamblers increase? 

[Crypto Library]

Some country government like Bulgaria due to the high level of gambling by the youth which they believe is as a result of online advertisement place ban on gambling and it’s related ads on social media which can be visible to their citizens, according to them they said it’s a means to reduce the level of exposure the teens get to gambling since they have free access to the internet.

Not only just Bulgaria there are lots of countries where gambling is banned or pointed out gambling as illegal in their country. Like if I say about my country Bangladesh gambling has been declared illegal and banned here for almost the same reason. Even after that it could not be prevented in such a way that many underaged poeple have addiction to gambling which is becoming more dangerous day by day.
Especially in my country, the underaged poeples of high school and higher secondary school are seen to be gambling together, even then it is evading his school and evading studies. So I think that before banning gambling in these cases, the law and order of these countries should be fixed first. Otherwise, there will be no benefit from banning.

[Salahmu]

There is an age that a child will reach in life where, even if you don't teach them about a particular thing, they will either come across it in one way or another, either through social interaction with friends or on the internet. They will definitely have to learn about it.
 

Of course you are right because most people especially some parents always misunderstood the whole idea of educating there children about gambling because just like you observed in as much as is very important to teach our children things they shouldn't venture into but we should also consider there age because there is no way they can expect a child of 5 years to still remember what he was taught when was five.

So perhaps a child with that age should only be well monitored and guided so that he will never be influenced by anything and perhaps when he or she has gotten to the right age then the parents can now educate them knowing fully well that if they failed to teach them they will eventually learned it from outsiders which is going to be very bad for them because they wouldn't really understand how to control there emotions towards it.

[Accardo]

The thing is that to even stop this is going to be an issue because the world has become so exposed that we can't actually control some of the things that the youth and teens do.  Gambling is literally advertise on all social media and some of the teens that actually do get involved in the act is as a result of the exposure to it.

Some country government like Bulgaria due to the high level of gambling by the youth which they believe is as a result of online advertisement place ban on gambling and it’s related ads on social media which can be visible to their citizens, according to them they said it’s a means to reduce the level of exposure the teens get to gambling since they have free access to the internet.

But if a person already knows or can get easy information about gambling, will reduce of ads seen really help? For example I dont see a lot of Coca-Cola ads around, but if I am thirsty, I most likely buy it. Or the situation with cigarettes. They are not seen at the shops, often behind nontransparent shelves, no ads, but people smoke a lot anyway. Even the high cost of cigarettes does not help.

Btw, if gambling gains popularity among teens, I wonder where they always get money from. They dont work, they cant ask endlessly money from parents. Then how come number of teen gamblers increase? 

Teens have multiple means of extorting money from their parents. School, extracurricular activities, wears etc. You'd see it's endless and parent always try their best to be good to the young ones. By providing almost all their needs and replenishing their pocket money when exhausted. These are being done by parents for the sole aim of safeguarding them from doing something silly because of money, but the opposite still happen.

Most of them use the money for risky things like gambling, to make more money enough to compete with other rich peers. Teens also face challenges with monetary and materialistic competitions. Which leads them to participate in gambling. Stopping ads is not enough, gambling is a term filled all over every society and people don't need to see ads before they'll hear of gambling.