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

[Ishicryptic]

Underaged gambling is a developing problem because of the presence of online gambling and the availability of mobile phones for the underaged, you will be surprised that they also watch pornography and visit sites that are not appropriate for their age. I think that the first place to start to discourage them is through the home, parents shouldn't buy smart phones for their underaged children and they should monitor how the children access their phones. If you regulate how your children use your smart phones by monitoring their activities on phones it will discourse them from accesing sites that are not appropriate for their age including casinos.

[yahoo62278]

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 don't know if the parents would be to blame as we don't know what values they instilled into their child. No matter what they taught the child the child may still be of the opinion that they can do whatever they want. Have you met kids today? A lot act super entitled. So I would say a social issue and possibly a platform issue is what you are witnessing. Social issue could be solved if the platform does kyc for everyone, but then they lose customers as some don't wanna feel like their privacy is being invaded.

[goldkingcoiner]

I think underage gambling is definitely a problem that arises with bad parenting.

For a child to gamble they must have access to not only the gambling platform with KYC verification (in order to actually do anything with their winnings, although there are KYCless gambling platforms as well) but also have access to a payment method, which they can only have if their parents give them said access either by providing them with their own payment account and money.

If the parents really wanted to stop their child from gambling they could easily do so.

[TopTort777]

Stop blaming casinos for being real reason for underaged gambling. Blame bloggers and streamers instead who show that with little amount and few taps, anyone could turn millionaire, drive fancy cars and live expensive life.

Maybe even gamblers are to blame, as they want more kyc casinos. Even thought kyc is not a solution, it might scare some kids or lazy kids from gambling.

And dont forget that kids are parents responsibility. If kids gamble, then problems stars with parents and parenting.

[Cointxz]

Stop blaming casinos for being real reason for underaged gambling. Blame bloggers and streamers instead who show that with little amount and few taps, anyone could turn millionaire, drive fancy cars and live expensive life.

I agree on this because this is the actual condition in my country ever since online casino becomes popular on mainstream media. Many influencers and vlogger that has different content converts to gambling content now since casino offers a huge payment for promoting the casino while social media pay rate decreases significantly for my country viewers.

Those gaming content and other niche that usually being watch by underage shamelessly promote gambling that result to exposure of underage to gambling while online casino was very accessible nowadays.

[Bitcoin.com97]

I don't really blame parents some times , because children of this days learn so fast, gambling awareness is everywhere,even on social media they advertise it, people talks about how they gamble with small amount and won big ,and whatever information those children hears they will want to carry it out,to see for themselves,some of their activities their parents are not even aware of it,I can't also blame casino also  for such ,if you find underage gambling,is just to causion them , sometime report to their families if you know them ,this children can be very secretive most at times that one may not find out what they are up to,and some want to be very rich at an early stage .

[michellee]

I can't imagine if many kids losing control and play gambling without their parents know so that will be miserably as they can use all money they have and maybe they will steal other people money including their parents.

Kids exposed gambling from social media where they use it daily and not realize the big problems behind. They don't understand much if their parents don't explain to them but many will play gambling because their friends asking them to join.

Maybe parents must controlling their devices and using different method to explaining and guiding their kids. In the Internet advancing, kids needs more than just guidance to protect their from the bad on the Internet.

[Livingleged]

Underage gambling  should  really  be a matter  of concern  actually  as it spreading  among  the minors,but who do we blame? Is it the parent or the gambling  industry  that make advert almost  in every platform  they get their  hand on, legally  we can't hold the gambling  industries  responsible  because  they alway state it boldy  that this is only for user that are aged about 18+. However  we also can't put the blame  on the parents  completely  because sometimes the gambling  are so mobile  now that children  can navigate  different  platforms  on there mobile  device  with the parent  knowing  and that really  not bad parenting. I really  don't even know who to put the blame on Honestly.

[purple_sparkles]

Parents cannot completely protect their children from the outside world, but they can teach and explain many things to them, especially through their own example. This includes how to build healthy relationships and how to treat money responsibly, because financial literacy and money management are directly connected to a person’s future life. It is also very important to develop critical thinking, because up to a certain age parents largely perform this function for their children. From a physiological point of view, the part of the brain responsible for critical thinking is not fully developed until around the age of 25. Before that, people are generally more vulnerable to outside influence.

[sotelorene]

Underaged gambling is a developing problem because of the presence of online gambling and the availability of mobile phones for the underaged, you will be surprised that they also watch pornography and visit sites that are not appropriate for their age. I think that the first place to start to discourage them is through the home, parents shouldn't buy smart phones for their underaged children and they should monitor how the children access their phones. If you regulate how your children use your smart phones by monitoring their activities on phones it will discourse them from accesing sites that are not appropriate for their age including casinos.

This particular one is as the result of how the parents raise or train their children, if they do not look after their child while he or she is growing up and telling them to abstain from things like this that it is not good for them, trust me when the child sees something like this online or maybe come across someone that is doing it, they will be moved to do... because they were not told to abstain from such things. And also exposing children to mobile phone or device at an early age is not good at times because it can either spoil them or build them depending on the information and advise on their head.

[Fakhrulenclix]

Underaged gambling is a developing problem because of the presence of online gambling and the availability of mobile phones for the underaged, you will be surprised that they also watch pornography and visit sites that are not appropriate for their age. I think that the first place to start to discourage them is through the home, parents shouldn't buy smart phones for their underaged children and they should monitor how the children access their phones. If you regulate how your children use your smart phones by monitoring their activities on phones it will discourse them from accesing sites that are not appropriate for their age including casinos.

It is very difficult to overcome, to the point that they even falsify data because every gambling site also enforces a 17+ age limit to register. However, in the environment where I live, I see many minors playing online gambling through their phones. So indeed, there is only one way to eradicate it, which is supervision from parents and also the immediate surroundings. If they are unable, this will damage the generation because in gambling there are many considerations, and minors are not yet able to control it.

[Akbarkoe]

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?

Everything has a fault at the point where they are too ignorant of all this, first from casinos that do not limit the age then from parents who do not take care of their children properly thirdly the community who do not care about the limits of their generation who will actually be the successors and friends of their own descendants who could be if allowed their children will also join in this activity, no one knows that the impact of allowing it will be much greater gradually over time, like normalizing is a bad attitude, your actions are already right.

[LastKiss]

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

I’ve never seen anyone underage gambling around me but if underage gambling become a serious issue, I think online casinos will likely be required to implement mandatory KYC verification to prevent underage from accessing gambling sites, what do you guys think about that.

As we know, the convenience of online platforms can make it easier for underage users to gamble although parents also play an important role in preventing this. Both parties would be under pressure to address the problem as a result so it wouldn’t be surprising if online casinos start requiring KYC verification in the future while parents become more proactive about limiting their children's access to certain activities on the internet.

[TopTort777]

Parents cannot completely protect their children from the outside world, but they can teach and explain many things to them, especially through their own example. This includes how to build healthy relationships and how to treat money responsibly, because financial literacy and money management are directly connected to a person’s future life. It is also very important to develop critical thinking, because up to a certain age parents largely perform this function for their children. From a physiological point of view, the part of the brain responsible for critical thinking is not fully developed until around the age of 25. Before that, people are generally more vulnerable to outside influence.

But they can learn and be an example of what is self control, managing finances, earning money. If parents teach kids what is addiction and what is fair earning, then kids wont be gambling and trying to secretly try to get some money from gambling. If parents dont teach to trust everything kids see online (I am talking about gambling influencers who show how easy it is to make money by gambling), kids would do something else if they need money.

[Questat]

As we know, the convenience of online platforms can make it easier for underage users to gamble although parents also play an important role in preventing this. Both parties would be under pressure to address the problem as a result so it wouldn’t be surprising if online casinos start requiring KYC verification in the future while parents become more proactive about limiting their children's access to certain activities on the internet.

If parents already know that nowadays it is easy to gamble online and they still do not do anything, then the blame is on them.

What is happening is that there are many platforms offering online gambling without requiring KYC, not to make minors gamble, but to give gamblers convenience, because not many of us are okay with putting our personal information online. That is the reason why crypto casinos exist, and we should be enjoying that convenience. It was not created to worsen the problem of underage gambling, but parents still need to do their part in monitoring their kids.

[Accardo]

But they can learn and be an example of what is self control, managing finances, earning money. If parents teach kids what is addiction and what is fair earning, then kids wont be gambling and trying to secretly try to get some money from gambling. If parents dont teach to trust everything kids see online (I am talking about gambling influencers who show how easy it is to make money by gambling), kids would do something else if they need money.

With the distribution of mobile phones to every individual in the world, underage gambling would be a much bigger problem to fix, unless all of them have their parents monitoring the activities going on in the phones, having younger players immerging each day would soon become a major trouble for parents and guardians to handle.