As you said about risky activities in gambling it is actually not that risky if you can limit yourself. Limiting means playing within your financial capacity and not gambling beyond your financial capacity. The most effective method is to gamble according to your bankroll every week. Limit the time you spend playing and managing your bankroll in line with income. Addiction will have a negative impact on family life in many cases divorce is also observed. Therefore, not only gambling addiction but any addiction can have a negative impact on your family life.
Well, that's true. Gambling is basically just a form of entertainment, and if done in moderation, like anything else, without overdoing it, it's not risky or problematic. However, many people, especially those in the lower middle class, take gambling too seriously because they think winning is easy and will help them change their lives little by little, or perhaps drastically. I agree with you, any addiction can have negative consequences.
Those living in poverty, those living in despair, those smiling with their own delusions—these are people who have high hopes that gambling can significantly change their lives, especially financially. So, when they win, instead of using it for more important things, they deposit it into their casino accounts, hoping to multiply it by gambling and betting.
However, this is truly foolish, because instead of achieving a big win that could lift them out of the shackles of poverty, this actually worsens their situation, and perhaps even has more serious consequences. Not only do they fail to win, fail to lift themselves out of the shackles of poverty, but they also fail to maintain the families they have built over the years. And I think, what woman wouldn't feel irritated if she continued to live in poverty, while all her husband did was gamble, and gamble without thinking or making a more reasonable effort to escape the poverty line.