When someone first starts gambling he doesn't think that he will fall into a big addiction. Then he goes there to get an experience. And to get extra pleasure they start playing extra gambling and thus he falls into a big addiction. But it mostly occurs in young people. And if a child sees his parent gambling, he tends to gamble more . So parents should be careful first then their children will be careful
What did you mean the parents should be careful first? it mean the parents shouldn't gamble at all? gambling is supposed to be fun and not for chasing money. Children or young people need to be teach and learn about money management and both disadvantage and advantage about gambling. This will make them to know what's the reason to gamble and when it's a right time/situation to gamble.
By careful I mean every father should gamble carefully. His gambling should not be revealed at least to his child because if a child comes to know that his father gambles then that child will follow his father and start gambling himself. It is called inheritance. I'm not saying that no parents should ever gamble
When it comes to online gambling, this is quite difficult to do. Until the child is very young, for example, up to 8 years old, when he goes to bed early, it is still possible if the father plays at a late time when the child is sleeping. And if the child is older, then he will definitely know that his father plays online games and will also be interested.
Here the father has only two options - either not to play at home at all, but only somewhere else, or not to play at all.
As online gambling does not require any specific location one can play it anywhere and anytime so It is certainly possible to gamble alone with someone's eyes peeled. And it is not difficult for every father to gamble alone with his child out of sight . so I couldn't agree with you because it can only be played with a small smartphone