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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Gambling by financial dependents.
by
BVeyron
on 02/09/2023, 18:02:30 UTC
Children shouldn't be allowed near gambling before a certain age but parents nowadays don't really care about these things, they don't even supervise their children after providing them with all kinds of facilities like electronic devices and internet connections and everything else they might need for gambling or being able to gamble. If they have a device with internet access and has money and also know how to access gambling platforms, what can stop them?

The only thing that can stop children from getting involved in such things is the regular supervision of the parents. They shouldn't allow them to always stay locked in their rooms and do whatever they want without even checking their devices to see what they do on them, such children will surely get spoiled.
This may seem complicated for parents who are busy and have jobs, let alone busy doing business, so they rarely see their children and are never involved in anything their children do. I agree with that that children should be prohibited from gambling before they reach the right age. relatively mature, let's say they can make money from work, not from their parents' money.

At least when gambling with the results of your work or your own money, I think it's a sign of maturity, it's difficult to supervise children in this technological age where everything can be accessed just using a cellphone, the most important thing is that they must be taught responsibility where what they do will always be there. risky, because to ban him from gambling would usually bring his curiosity to try it.
Educating their children from the early age is the least they can do if they are busy working. Making their kids responsible of every movement they make and making their kids understand the negative effects of gambling. Most likely, their kids can carry out the knowledge that their parents pass to them even when they are on the legal age.

Technology has their own advantage, Restricting some possible actions in the devices of your children is possible nowadays. I wonder if there's an application that can block known websites that shouldn't be accessed by minors like casinos.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that such devices only partially block the access of children, and especially teenagers, to sites that are not intended for children.  In any school classroom there is always a computer genius, the same age as your children, who from an early age is well versed in how to get around all these protections.  Children and teenagers constantly communicate with each other and such information from this local genius naturally becomes known to other chilrren.  Very often, such a local computer prodigy is much better than adults in understanding ways to bypass blocking.  Therefore, the problem can perhaps be solved only if the child is taken away from both the phone and the computer and any gadget wheoe he can play.  Otherwise, no blocking applications will help.