Children do not always follow their parents' example. If a father shows that gambling is bad, that he has lost more than he has won, he can influence his son positively, perhaps. But that is not necessarily true.
Friends can have a big impact: if they play, you feel pressure to follow them. But even here, that's not a given.
I think it's a personal thing that matures with many psychological factors, not just one
True if children follows their parents footsteps the world would been a better place, many thing the children do today the parents never do them, its just our world. The way their train our parents is the different from how our parents train us today. internet has more influence to the children than parents. so its hard to copy your parents life styles. As for me, my parents hate gambling and they banned us from playing it. yet we still play because we have access to the internet and i can play without stepping outside. Parents really has no say on the impact of gambling on children, but they can reduce it by playing advisory role.
Times are different now dude, because of the internet, it seems like people's lives are incomplete without it. Unlike the time of our parents when they didn't have the internet yet. So even if we say that parents can remind their children about gambling, I think of course it's still up to the students or children to choose and think about it.
Because of the internet, children or students can still see and have curiosity to peek at online casinos that their parents can't monitor anymore but it's really up to the child
or student whether or not to try gambling.