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

[Agbamoni]

Dont think there is any complete solution to stop underage gambling. It can be mitigated but cannot be stopped. How we can help society reduce underage gambling is to chase kids going to live casinos and restrict them from having access to certain gambling apps and sites. If that does not help, then restrict them from holding a device that can be connected to the internet until they are 18.

[qwertyup23]

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?

It is actually a mix of everything you mentioned, which is all a parenting, platform, and societal issue.

The proliferance of gambling is also the interest of the State given that the latter has the inherent duty of being the guardian of the youth for its proper growth and guidance. Under the doctrine of parens patriae, the State has the ultimate interest of being the guardian of the young given that they have a substantial effect in the future of one's country.

Given that the State has an interest, it is also considered a problem. While the State has an interest on the young, they also have the duty of balancing these interests with the country economically. Gambling generates tons of revenue but this should not be countenanced when its means sacrifice the upbringing of the children. The state needs to find the balance of using gambling as a means for financial gain in the country; and its advertisements affecting children.

Lastly, it is definitely a parenting problem because parents have the natural and inherent right of protecting their children. Parents have the primary, direct, and parental authority over the upbringing of their children and the environment they provide for their growth.

[CryptSafe]

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

Underage gambling can be reduced, but it cannot be stopped. If you see what these children are doing among themselves, you will understand what I am taking about. I am referring to boys that are teenagers.

But it is good that you warned the owner of the gambling store. Underage gambling should be discouraged and people should be warned about it.

Most time it is not the fault of the parents, it is about what is going on in the children's environment and how online is these modern time. Some teenagers are very smart.

I agree with your point here, as we can not stop underage gambling, but with a mechanism put in place and measures strictly adhered to, underage gambling would be limited because casinos would be compelled to do the needful to thoroughly conduct a check on any possible underage upon registration on their platform.

As for the physical betting shops, allowing underage children to place bets at their will is against the law, and as such, should not be accepted and should be treated appropriately by the law. Any bet shop owner who is caught in such an act should be reported to the appropriate authority to be handled immediately, so that they do not turn the underage children into addicted gamblers at a tender age.

[bakasabo]

Dont think there is any complete solution to stop underage gambling. It can be mitigated but cannot be stopped. How we can help society reduce underage gambling is to chase kids going to live casinos and restrict them from having access to certain gambling apps and sites. If that does not help, then restrict them from holding a device that can be connected to the internet until they are 18.

Solution seems to be simple - parents must pay more attention to their children, what they do at their free time, what they want, and most important, they must show children different legal methods to earn money. As well as explain that at certain age children should not do certain things or own certain things. They must teach their children that "I want all, now and a lot of it" it not normal. Children must learn that money are earned by working, but not by luck.

[SFR10]

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

Despite all of them contributing to the situation, I blame the parents the most! They need to stop giving them access to a lot of money without their supervision and they can easily configure their router to show only whitelisted websites ^{[to go a step further, they can enable kids mode on their phones to fully control what they can do]}.

[Franklyn-wood]

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.

Controlling underage in the bet world, this might be a little difficult. Having control over such situation as restricting teenage and underage in the gambling sector depends on how there parents can handle there children, giving them a close monitoring to know what they use there phones for is very important.
The society should also create policies that protects the interest of the oung one from being esposed to gambling.
Government or regulatory bodies should enforcea more strict laws that makes it impossible fit underage to access bets online which helps reduce the rate of underage involvement in gambling.

[coin-investor]

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

It's a combination of all that you've mentioned. When all of these three lack education and restrictions on child gambling issues, it will escalate until it becomes a nationwide issue.
Education should start at home; the platform should ensure there are restrictions and compliance with existing laws on children's gambling, and society should pass laws that make gambling hard and discourage child gambling.

[Localhostspeed]

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?

It's not even about underage gambling, I think the people have begin to accept that gambling is now a norm unlike then when people fight against it. You will never see parents accept their children to gamble, they see gambling some sort of cult or some behavior which children should never do but now, they see gambling as part of passion for sports so even the children are not the problem any more to see them gamble and that has become extreme in my opinion.

If children becomes used to gamble, I'm afraid that the bad side will be more than the good side. The fun could be there because many children loves sport, when you see some underage talk about sport you will think they are adult and to put to test of their knowledge, sport gambling is what they used as challenge but the bad side is if they get comfortable with gambling, it can affect them badly with gambling addiction and sadly some of this unlicensed casino doesn't care.

[YOSHIE]

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

The environment, relationships, gambling platforms, parents, androids and so on are responsible for minors involved in the world of gambling, With easy access to the internet and the average minor nowadays having an Android cellphone, that is the most dangerous factor and the main factor and supervision from parents.

I agree and appreciate the government of the Republic of Chechnya, elementary school aged children are supervised by their parents, then girls and boys have to live in dormitories to study up to university, until they grow up and work.
So in the Chechen Republic, gambling is prohibited by the government, so here the government's role is also important to overcome the problem of minors involved in gambling, in essence all elements are involved to overcome all this, that is the main point.

[hedgeh0g]

It's a combination of all that you've mentioned. When all of these three lack education and restrictions on child gambling issues, it will escalate until it becomes a nationwide issue.
Education should start at home; the platform should ensure there are restrictions and compliance with existing laws on children's gambling, and society should pass laws that make gambling hard and discourage child gambling.

Of course, this is very important, and without proper oversight by regulatory authorities, it could have serious consequences. But it's also crucial for gambling platforms to be willing to do this, and for parents to more closely supervise their children and teenagers, who are constantly eager to learn new things. Although I understand how difficult this is, as it's impossible to supervise them 24/7, as they can try gambling even on the street or at school when adults aren't watching. I think it's important to instill in them a grain of understanding and good parenting so they aren't influenced by bad students who might boast about winning money betting.

[BitBakerr1]

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

Underage gambling is actually caused by parent, some parents are failing to discipline their children very well if you discipline a child very well the child will not engage in things that are not good for example gambling, you need to warn your children not to do some certain things mention it for them so they won’t do it.
And again peer group inference and the environment that this children are also contributing to all this issues of underage gambling but with a good parent that is always monitoring their children, the environment and the peer group influence will not affect them to start gambling because their parent is always watching them and they will be fearful to go against their parent warning or instructions.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

It is a social problem. Parents have nothing to do with those boys gambling. Op are you new to it or you are just hearing or seeing it? This has been on ground for years now. Op stopping the boy from entering a casino shop doesn't stop him from gambling. Even if you like call the police to lock him up. When he comes out, he will still gamble. Did you inform all the gambling centers to not allowing the boy to play gamble? No. Did you inform network providers to stop the boy from gambling? No and finally do you follow the boy to everywhere he goes? No. Though you have done you part and the parents have to do their part and the boy have to complete the remaining part for him to stop gambling at that age.

I totally disagree with the point you just gave above regarding parents not having anything to do or to be blamed for the increasing number of kids who are found engaging in gambling activities when they are still underage. Because if truly parents taught these kids about the disadvantages and advantages of what getting into casino could cause to the victims, some kids would never have engaged in gambling activities. But for the fact that both parents, the society and the casino neglected issuing a proactive measures to curb this menace. That's why it keeps increasing.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Underage gambling isn't really a future problem it's something that is affecting a lot of people now. This has a lot to do with poor parenting because when parents fail to give their kids the attention that is required they end up getting involved in a lot of negative things. Another reason for underage gambling is bad influence, a lot of kids get negatively influenced by adults.

I agree with you mate, bad influence can also be the cause of underage gambling but it still points to parents of that kid, there are some parents that pays very close attention to their kids and they also interact with them as often as necessary, so it enables the kid to inquire from their parents before doing anything that might be considered out of character by their parents but if the parents don't build such kind of relationship with their children, then the child will do as he or she please.

[Obim34]

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

In most scenarios, it is nothing about parenting issue, I see it as a personal concern.

Everything is now free to air, children go out in public places, they interact with people of their age and those ahead of them, the internet is also accessible, football channels promotes casinos and betting platforms, there are things which cannot be avoided no matter how hard we try to hide them from underaged, that is why during sex education, it is important to talk about safe sex with the consequences of underage sex, no parent are there to monitor their children's where about all the time. A child that want's to be responsible will make it a decision for themselves.

[yhiaali3]

In my opinion, gambling by minors is primarily an educational problem because it should start at home with parents monitoring their children's behavior. It is also a societal problem because when there are no restrictions in society on this phenomenon, it will continue to spread more and more.

The problem is also exacerbated by the spread of online platforms and their easy accessibility from anywhere. As long as there are many casinos that are easily accessible and where any amount can be easily deposited without legal age restrictions, it will not be difficult for minors to gamble.

Like I said in my previous comment on this post, the final blame still falls on the parents who fail to monitor and train their children well, parents are the ones who spend more time with their children, it's not the teachers on their school, or who ever,  but the parents or care givers are the ones who spend more time with the kids, and this kids having access to gadgets they can use to access the Internet like mobile phones and computers are also the responsibility of the parents.

Now the question is, if parents are handing mobile devices to their children, why can't they constantly monitor, check what those children are doing with the device handed over to them? Because as a matter of fact those kids with access to free Internet might be using the device to access wrong places on the Internet and only the parents can discover this and correct the kids on time before the kids grow and become part of the society.

Yes, this is indeed an important point. It is the duty of parents who give their minor children mobile phones to constantly monitor them. The internet is a very dangerous place for children, and there are things that may be more dangerous than gambling that take place via mobile phone.

There are apps that allow parents to control their children's mobile phones and give them only the permissions they need, or to monitor their children's behavior via mobile phone, so that parents can know what their children are doing all the time.

[sunsilk]

It's all IMHO. Because with parents guidance, even with how good they are if the people that surrounds these kids are gamblers, they'll gamble.

And for as the platform, they're driven by profit and they don't mind who their customers are unless the laws strikes them with a heavy penalty.

For the society, it's easier to access casinos now but with a brick and mortar, that seems to be odd if they allow minors to get in.

What parents can do is instill the good virtues in their kids so if in case they will be influenced by other people later on, they would know what to do. Because parents can't watch their kids 24/7. But they can always ingrain good upbringing that they can remember when they are being tested by the situation.

Yes, the parents can do the initiative of all of the reminders to the kids. But since they can't be with them at all times, whoever is around them can influenced them a lot.

That's why the reminders of the parents of avoiding strangers and bad influences should always be said.

Because if not, that's what will happen. And kids are good at hiding secrets and they won't even tell a thing when they know their parents will get mad at them.

[ColdLava40]

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.

Not every country cares about underage gambling.

Not every country has a low placed to protect young children from gambling, but as a society we could play a little role that would help out. Like you did there it would be an act of good will.

The owner of the store might consider it different and think you are trying to drive away his clients. Kids should not be allowed to go into gambling at young ages.

It's difficult for grown ups to manage the metal stress, how the. Would the kids? I believe the society and government should play a role in handling underage gambling.

[Bluedrem]

Gambling has become so widespread in society that even a small boy is now aware of it. When curiosity arises in their minds about gambling, they start looking for opportunities to experience gambling. In that case, they take advantage of any opportunity. I think that if parents are a little aware in this regard, they can keep their children away from gambling. Also, those who own or manage casinos should make literature that discourages minors from gambling and if any child expresses interest in gambling, they should inform their parents about it.
That is, just as a minor boy or girl can get involved in gambling due to the collective irresponsibility of the society, it is possible to keep boys and girls away from gambling with a collective effort.

[r_victory]

Not all owners of establishments like the one mentioned break the law, but some are more concerned with profit than with the harm they may cause.

An online casino may request verification, but the minor in question could falsify the documentation or even use artificial intelligence to record a video/selfie; who knows?

Something I find hypocritical is what frequently happens: minors shouldn't be exposed to gambling, but they see casino advertisements while watching a football match. Isn't that contradictory?

There are responsible bodies to oversee all of this, but apparently they are inefficient or complicit.

[Accardo]

Government or regulatory bodies should enforcea more strict laws that makes it impossible fit underage to access bets online which helps reduce the rate of underage involvement in gambling.

Policies like this would be hard to implement considering how hard it'll be to track the age of who is behind a mobile screen. Awareness will go a long way to put parents on the watch over their kid's activities on phone to help save them from the trouble seeing gambling ads could lead them into, this will also save the guardians from the stress of trying to save the child from trouble, prevention they say is greater than cure. Paying no attention to what kids do on phone will later on cost the parents more trouble in future.