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Instead of locking someone up for addiction, take them to rehab.

yeah ga can help and there are 90 day 180 day programs.

My dad had life long problems with gambling and died pretty much broke.

he never wanted to stop.

he is the reason i am very careful with risking bets. I take long pauses.

and make very deliberate moves.

The children of addicts turn out to be either addicts to the same habits a parent of theirs had because of influence from growing up around such parents, or they take the life of their parents as an example of what they never want to become and become very watchful never to go down that same road.

Individuals who give their excuse that because their parents were gambling addicts, hence they are gambling addicts, I consider immature because they are hiding behind the excuse of being influenced by their parents when actually they had a choice in front of them either to follow down the paths their parents went or to take a life lesson from their parents.

That a parent or a guardian is an addict to a habit, say gambling, should never be a reason to become one.

To bad for them if they used that excuse since they have their own lives and they can decide what's best or worse for them. If they choose to follow that path where they see their parents struggle because of addiction then provably the same situation will happen to them.

But if they choose the better side which is to avoid experiencing this situation then provably that their life would became more better compare to what happen to their parents.

That's quiet advantage for us to see how our elders struggle because we already see a snapshot about what's going to happen if we exceed or became greedy on gambling that's why we should choose what's the best and try all our best not to experience addiction.

and this is why I am still married to my wife after 40 years as I saw what my dads irresponsibility did to his marriage.

So I do not risk money in excessive matters.

But I do take some risk now and then

Gambling can ruin lives as I also have experience even I am living in society where this is openly not allowed but still many addicted and their families suffer with their addiction.

In developing countries no rehab and things for giving them any motivation you have done good job and keeping things on balance which is never been easy.

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