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.
That's not weird to see young people playing gambling because in my place, they playing gambling with their friends and even they have one place to gather and playing gambling together. They really vulnerable, immature and can gets addicted to gambling so that's why adult people or parents must supervise their children and educate about the risks of gambling so their children will not playing gambling.
Children will not knows what gambling so they can gets addicted to gambling, especially if their parents doesn't knows if they gambling. Although their children knows gambling from their friends, they will not trying to playing gambling because of the risks behind gambling. Parents must shows them that many good things that they can do so their focus will just do that good things without thinks about doing something that can harms their life.