Underage Gambling Is No Longer a Future Problem — It Is Already Here

[Floxynice]

With the presence of online gambling, children will always be able to gamble effortlessly, even if it means using the stolen identity of an adult, because parents these days do not monitor what their children do with their devices that much, and online casinos may not be able to tell who is lying and who is not.

This problem of underage gambling has come to stay, and it has become difficult to eradicate. There is not much anyone can do other than constantly talk to young people about the dangers of gambling.

[DPHOR]

As long as we have we Internet connection and people keep accessing it to do their work or having whatever business they feels like then we can't stop an underage gambling because primarily they must have access to gamble site either at home or at school library, except the school entirely blocked students from having access to gambling site. While at home you could find them having personal computer which usually they uses it to browse the net and so for research, you won't expect students or an underage not to come across gambling aids where they could feels attracted to gamble. When you talks about physical gambling stores, then u must say that there are some kids that looks higher above their age. They could be around 12-14 years but you will likely think they are already 17-18 years if you didn't asked for their Government issued Identity card for you to know. Of course, this would promote underage gambling if the parents are not properly monitoring their children at home or even taking notes of what they are doing with their PC or Smartphone.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

To be frankly speaking, I can boldly say that all three mentioned above plays an important role in the increasing number of underage kids who now gambles without restrictions. Because both the parents are to be blamed for failing to monitor their kids and exposing gambling to them at tender age. Because if you could do a deep research, you will notice that some of the kids who engage in gambling all learnt it from their parents who were reckless in their gambling activities at home, forgetting that kids do watch and learn from what they see you doing. While secondly,  the casino is also to be blamed for failing to genuinely verify the age of people who register and uses their casino while using both documents and facial verifications to ensure that the user is not a minor. But it's sad that they won't, since they are looking for quick profit from those who will gamble and loses their bet. And thirdly, the society is also to be blamed for neglecting to caution and discourage these kids when found in a gambling environment. But yet they will ignore.

[Churchillvv]

You’re bothered by children using physical casino? Online casinos or sport betting platforms today are recording tens of thousands of children gambling daily which some hide behind stolen IDs, right now it’s beyond parental issues, platform mismanagement, now a digital age issues where children firstly grow beyond their age in terms of looks and some knowing more than they should know, this is the problem and mitigating this issue is quite difficult.

[ryzaadit]

In my view all of them.

These issue already really really hard to be solved, even with asking ID in the front before you can play on casino. They just can somehow, bypass those with some ID somene else.

Remember, Level II verification are very easy.

[DrBeer]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

The answer here is simple: a person who does not earn money on his own, or a person whose maintenance is the responsibility of others, or a person who is responsible for providing for others, has no right to gamble.
I.e. here the restrictions should apply not only to minors, most of whom do not provide for themselves, but also to another group of people.  But this is my personal opinion

[Suleiman the Magnificent]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

The concept of minors seems a bit vague. It would be more accurate to simply call them children. The question that needs to be asked here should be: why do children gamble, and why do they find gambling entertaining? Setting aside their academic lives, the fact that they turn to gambling when there are so many other games to play is, in my opinion, a very significant social problem. Perhaps the ease of access to gambling through digitalization is also drawing them into this vortex. But finding a solution to this as a society is essential, if we can, that is.

[uneng]

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

Parenting issue. It means parents aren't taking care their children properly and are giving money to them without getting concerned how they are using it.

These children are the consequence of the bad education they have been receiving. As a child, I have never imagined doing something like that, because I didn't have money under my disposal. If I wished to buy something, I had to ask my parents to do that for me. So it was a much more controlled and strict childhood compared to nowadays.

I guess that is where the disbalance lies. If child can do anything they wish, of course such issues will start arising in society.

[EluguHcman]

I totally disagree with your thread title, even if some countries would have to permit the underages to gamble, it does not still change the fact that it is a problem in the society and to the parents of those children won't find it problematic because at the cause of the gambling abuse, the negative effects it posses will still remain a threat.

So it does not make sense saying the Underage Gambling Is No Longer a Future Problem — It Is Already Here. For the fact that no meaningful parent will gladly see their underage children gamble, at least that alone signifies a future problem.

Perhaps you arrived at the right points in the body of the thread. Underage children should not be allowed to gamble no matter what. Even if the child is playing with his own money.

[ejikeme24]

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

If there's anyone that have to be blamed for that then I think it's their parents because if they had taken good care of their children there's no way they will think of gambling as at that age. You know sometimes I ask myself that all this underage that have been struggling for money what are they even using those money for? Apart from spending it in snacks and also shopping and other irrelevant stuffs they are not spending those money in something meaningful, sometimes the environment we find ourselves can also influence our children into having negative thought because I'm sure that those parents who are in the city with their children, Thier children doesn't think about gambling but other important things that is far better than gambling.

[Ojima-ojo]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

Both parents and gambling operators including government have responsibility in handling underage gambling majority of the time parents exposed they kids to lifestyle that they will not be able to control along the way, let alone monitor their kids to see if they are doing th right thing.

Government responsibility in regulation of gambling services and enforcement of the required action, this neglect in the side of the government have worsen the situation.

[ingiltere]

I don't think this is a big problem. Since 13-14 year olds don't have their own money, they can't really gamble anyway. They can play once they start earning their own money. I don't think the 18-year-old age limit makes much sense. It's really more about whether they have money or not. Casinos already have age limits. However, online world is different, there are places where you can play without KYC verification. It's impossible for websites to verify age. Instead of bans, we need to educate children. Without education, people will always find a way to circumvent any kind of ban.

[Sonia_123]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

Online gambling has being a contributory factor for underage gambling which is not right at all.

For me I think underage gambling is a parenting issues because if the parents has proper up bringing on their children you will not find them gambling at a tender age.

Most parents are faced with the hardship of life and leave their children all by themselves fending for survival, nobody to monitor their activities and for those children with silver spoons are preoccupied with the phones online and keep exploring until they are caught up without their parents monitoring their online activities because they never would believe that nowadays children can go far and wild online.

Parents should properly care for their children to be responsible citizens.

[Orpichukwu]

Underage gambling is something that the government and others fight to limit, but it can't completely be stopped. Here in my countryside, it's hard for you to walk up to a gambling shop and be asked to present your ID first before you are allowed to gamble, and I have seen cases of parents and elderly people giving money and booking game codes for a specific casino to go and register the game for them and bring back the ticket. In such cases, the shop operators might not stop such a child when they come in next time because they can't tell if he's playing for himself or has been sent, and some children also look older than their age in terms of physical appearance and maturity.

[Sandra_hakeem]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling,

7,000 times is crazy. I'm an adult with kids under my control (I don't care about using a different gender as an excuse in this case) but I haven't done 200 total access time in all the casinos combined. At what age did he develop this habit?!

Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

The casino owner should be behind bars. I don't know why you decided to be lenient with him. He preys on kids with little to no knowledge of the drawbacks/detriment of their actions to their future.

[alastantiger]

You’re bothered by children using physical casino? Online casinos or sport betting platforms today are recording tens of thousands of children gambling daily which some hide behind stolen IDs, right now it’s beyond parental issues, platform mismanagement, now a digital age issues where children firstly grow beyond their age in terms of looks and some knowing more than they should know, this is the problem and mitigating this issue is quite difficult.

Everyone is now having a mobile phone on their hands hence mobile gambling has become more common than it used to be and that is the reason behind underage gambling becoming a problem right now. There has to be some restriction for teenagers to assess some sites as without this being carried out with great enforcement it will be very difficult for we to prevent underage gamblers from assessing the casinos. Most casinos don't even ask for KYC anymore as anyone can gamble as much as they want, if we want to tackle underage gambling we don't have to just focus on educating the youth but also enforcing streets rules and regulation to help limit how easy it is to assess all casino websites.

[Cantsay]

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

For me, I think it is a societal issue and platform issue as well depending on whether we’re considering just the online underage gambling or physical gambling.

I have been opportuned to witness some underage gambling amongst some school students and a lot of them started gambling or got interested in it because of someone that was close to them (not their parents) or someone in their community who lives a very good life but he’s being seen gambling on a daily basis that prompted them to go into gambling thinking that was the source of income of the individual.

While for the platform aspect, a lot of the social media today no longer censor ads that they show to young people, gambling ads are popping up on children’s contents online and the gambling platforms too don’t have any real way to tackle it and it sends a false message to the children that the platform is willing to accept them as long as they have the money to pay for it.

[Smartvirus]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling,

7,000 times is crazy. I'm an adult with kids under my control (I don't care about using a different gender as an excuse in this case) but I haven't done 200 total access time in all the casinos combined. At what age did he develop this habit?!

It sounds unbelievable but wait, that’s the kind of things you get when gambling isn’t regulated by some means.

At first, you get to wonder what do kids need money for. Then you try to go into their family settings, where kids are forced to be adults and provide for themselves, not only themselves but other members of the family at times. This is how kids gets pushed out into identifying and competing with adults on the same playing field.

Kids should be allowed to be kids and not put in a situation that would require them to commit crime and break certain policies. 7,000 access and so many gambling losses is a huge problem and when gambling gets to you as a kid, it’s very easy to be addicted.

[Kavelj22]

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

It is a mix between all of them. But we can arrange them by term of priority. Family is the first learning school, then the society with all the spaces within (school,industries,public spaces,social media, and everything arround.

[Powerjumboo]

A lot of countries right now are now recording underage gambling, I saw in the news that In Japan, police discovered a 13-year-old boy who had accessed an online casino around 7,000 times and lost all the money he deposited.
Some days ago in my home town a saw a very small boy in one of the gambling store and he was gambling the boy should be around 14 to 15 years old and I immediately confronted the owner of the gambling store about allowing underage children in his gambling store and threatening to call the police on him if I see this continue and he begged me and promise he won’t how underage children to come close to his gambling center anymore.

Is underage gambling primarily a parenting issue, a platform issue, or a societal issue?

I think that underage gambling is a problem for parents. If every parent can keep a close eye on their child and pay attention to what their child is doing or not, then underage children will not be able to do bad things. Currently, mobile phones are being handed over to young boys and girls. This problem is mainly seen because these young underage children are being handed over to mobile phones. There is no problem with the platform here because even if the platform prohibits minors, they will enter the platform through various processes. So if the parents of every child are aware, I think underage children can be kept away from gambling and various bad things.