It's weird if someone allow the young people to gamble.
Young people are vulnerable, they're immature, so they still not able to know what to do and what not in their life. Exposing the young ones to gambling, drugs, sex, or war, as they're grow up, I think the country where they live will messed up since it will be full of criminals.
It needs awareness from their parents to explain what is gambling and the risks behind of gambling with the danger that their children can gets from gambling. When their parents can explain everything about gambling, their children will not trying to playing gambling.
Sometime it's better for the child to never know what gambling is, rather than knowing what is gambling with the risk involved with it.
What is young to you? 6 years old or 16 ? 6 yo kid is indeed vulnerable, immature and see world through pink glasses. 16 is mature enough. At that age young people now everything in theory already, but lack experience and practice. What wrong can happen if a kid knows what is gambling? What, his world will turn upside down and kid will think only about gambling? Knowing is always better than not knowing. Please dont stop about addiction. Person dont get addicted from looking and gambling. Something must happen to persons mind for him to become addicted.
P.S. Do you have kids?