Quote from: rachael9385 on June 24, 2024, 05:06:40 PM

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Quote from: Maus0728 on June 17, 2024, 11:49:38 PM

Thank God people are starting to notice on stuff like this because this is a big deal, if children and/or teens are getting into gambling because they see it as normal, we'd be seeing an epidemic of future adult gamblers that are going to be addicted to gambling, I think that parents should be educated right now about this and that it's alright to be strict or heavy handed when it comes to gambling, we all know that it's going to be a bad time for them in the future so why not try to stop them now and tell them what they might end up in the future if they continue gambling, maybe having a monitor for your child's online activity might be the best option even though it violates their privacy.

If the teens are still under their parent's care, parents I think should have the right to know what their kids are doing online and on their phones. Whether privacy is an issue or not, my teenager will definitely be under martial law and I will check their apps and browsing history.

Teens are yet not fully aware of what they are doing just as Colby Cotrone said, they are fans of the sport but they are crossing the line already when they gamble. Government agencies may step in if it becomes an epidemic already. Australian government AFAIK is doing lots of things to prevent their citizen from gambling including banning ads everywhere.

Yeah.
I think these days technology is advanced more that other years back. So presently, all smartphones have a feature called parental guide, this feature helps parents to control their childrens phone 100%. This is a nice feature that helps all parents to protect their child from online gamble and other online activities that makes children and teenagers not concentrate on other important activities. A teenager who understands computers so well can easily clear up their browser history anytime they are done with what they are doing. A teenager who's engaging on gamble both online and offline line doesn't know the dangers in front. As a teenager, you don't work and unless the person is a street hustler, gamble is a thing that a matured minded person should do because there might be a loss that a teenager will have an will not be okay with it because he's not matured enough to handle gamble losses.

Yes, some kids are so smart that they can bypass the parental guidance settings on the phone their parents grant them access to, but if the kids are always involved in gambling activities, they may not really keep a clean track all the time, and some observant parents can easily find out about it, while some parents are just too busy to even look at what their kids are doing. They maythink that parental guidance can do the whole job; they don't realize that they also need to be there looking at what the kids are actually doing.

Like you said, some kids don't realize the danger of gambling until they begin to get addicted or perhaps grow up with an addicted gambling lifestyle.