When this child grows up, you will leave to regret this incident for his entire life because of his father's decision, this is also one of the reason why you see some children who feel to go by their parents way because they choose their own part on their own and by themselves, maybe you will later regret why telling his father, when he could have keep such away from his father.
The child doesn't need to wait and grow up before he will know that the father is not giving him good advice; come to think of it, anyone who is old enough and allowed to gamble should be able to detect and differentiate good and bad by himself. That which the dad is asking him to do can only be considered misleading advice, and he should never take such a step even if it costs the family relationship to be shaken; it's better than losing that money. There is an opportunity in the future to reconnect, but when that money is gone, that's it.
Exactly, who so ever is old enough to gamble, should also be sensible enough to know or should be able to dectate the good advice and the negative advice, beside it is not advisable for a child to involve his or her self in gambling, just because other people are using a huge amount of money to gamble that shouldn't motivate you to imitate them because financial statuses are different, but frankly speaking, some people are not using a huge amount of money to gamble because they are financially secure and stable, they are actually doing it out of ignorant, and insecurity, and this is an act of irresponsible and negligence, because despite the fact that you are earning a lot of income you shouldn't end up putting so much money in gambling.