It all depends on the nature of the person in choosing friends, even though they are in a gambler's family environment, even though each child has a different nature but the role of friends in the social environment can affect a person, even though there is a term (fruit doesn't fall far from the tree) that term sometimes often pinned by people, to be the family of the gambler, the role of friends in life can be good or vice versa so it all depends on how they choose friends in their environment..
Being surrounded by bad influence friends can influence a person even if he or she grew into a good environment in their family. That's really something to be thought about in terms of behavioral process
as everyone is learning new things not only from their parents, from the technology but mostly, from the surroundings and neighborhood they live at.
Yes, but we are discussing
parents' influence on their kids in regards to gambling. Of course, there can be many other factors to it, like the neighborhood you live in, the school you are going to, the movies and TV shows you watch etc. And sometimes parents can't do much about other influences on you as their kid, especially when they are busy hardworking, but they definitely have to try to not be giving you bad examples. Gambling isn't a bad example by itself, but gambling addiction is.
There is this saying that goes a friend is a replica of who an individual becomes. Environment, friends and peer group play even stronger role in influencing a kid than their parents. Parents can be the flexible working type who has all the time in the world for their kids but it takes carrying them along when gambling to get them influenced but for age grades and peer group even without direct contact with the kid the just get easily influenced