4%-5% of teenagers worldwide have gambling addiction

[Aaron625]

Nowadays , in this digital era , online casinos have become so popular that even a teen pursuing his/her studies gets carried away with gambling and starts depositing money into the casinos from their parent's money or their pocket money and end up suffering from "Gambling addiction". Studies show that 4%-5% of teenagers have this gambling addiction problem and around 14% of them have symptoms of gambling addiction. It's the parent's responsibility to make sure their child doesn't gamble at such a tender age , but with children now using their own smart phones , parents think their children are making use of their phones for something good like studying or stuffs , but lot of teenagers make use of phones to gamble and win money. It's so important to stop this gambling addiction at young age so that it won't become a big problem later on in their future life.

 

[HayKay]

This you've highlighted is something major. The craze for get money quick and at all costs is driving people to do different things and the young ones are always feeling that they're not enough

 

[Yusuf]

This is a major issue the society needs to handle most especially from the family. The issue of gambling is very complecating as more and more danger are there for addictive people

 

[Victorial]

I must say that it is a bad stat. Gambling among young children is a big highlight of what poor parenting can bring. Yes they have access to the personal phones but they should be monitored. If Gambling is as high as this, I wonder how pornography will be.

 

[joy101]

I don't think it is really good to allow the teenagers into gambling shop because it really bad, government should never permitted such things.

 

[Nurudeen]

This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed at all cost. I think the best thing for anybody doing this is just to stop because if someone is addicted to gambling, it can ruin the person live

 

[Melanie M]

Nowadays , in this digital era , online casinos have become so popular that even a teen pursuing his/her studies gets carried away with gambling and starts depositing money into the casinos from their parent's money or their pocket money and end up suffering from "Gambling addiction". Studies show that 4%-5% of teenagers have this gambling addiction problem and around 14% of them have symptoms of gambling addiction. It's the parent's responsibility to make sure their child doesn't gamble at such a tender age , but with children now using their own smart phones , parents think their children are making use of their phones for something good like studying or stuffs , but lot of teenagers make use of phones to gamble and win money. It's so important to stop this gambling addiction at young age so that it won't become a big problem later on in their future life.

That’s a pretty high percentage.. for teenagers. You’d think they would be more interested in smoking, vaping, drinking, and drugs. And girls usually just focus on clothes, makeup, and boys.
But gambling, that’s already messing around with money. At such a young age. Can you imagine when they get older? Whenever I think of someone with a gambling problem, I always picture some 60-yr old guy desperately scratching off lottery tickets in a dark alley.

 

[Shigobad2020]

Nowadays , in this digital era , online casinos have become so popular that even a teen pursuing his/her studies gets carried away with gambling and starts depositing money into the casinos from their parent's money or their pocket money and end up suffering from "Gambling addiction". Studies show that 4%-5% of teenagers have this gambling addiction problem and around 14% of them have symptoms of gambling addiction. It's the parent's responsibility to make sure their child doesn't gamble at such a tender age , but with children now using their own smart phones , parents think their children are making use of their phones for something good like studying or stuffs , but lot of teenagers make use of phones to gamble and win money. It's so important to stop this gambling addiction at young age so that it won't become a big problem later on in their future life.

Most people doesn't want to gamble in the first place but they just went into gambling because of job scarcity frustration and they also have to feed themselves because they have nothing.

 

[Rhapsody]

In my area. The percentage will be more than that because even some small boys that are not up to teen are playing bet. It has become rampart in my area. They all want to earn money and buy big things. And I don't think even there parents can stop that.

 

[Grandeur]

I believe that the percentage you allocated to children with addiction is low, one of five children are aware of addiction and some of those children would likely give in to peer pressure

 

[BrolySSJ]

I think gambling has become a real pandemic because it is very easy to access the website now and as a result it is a lot easier for children to get involved when it comes to gambling. For example if we just have to consider the cryptocurrency world and community we can see that almost every cryptocurrency site does have a provision for a gambling option.

 

[Setho]

This is actually a very large number and it is becoming very soon because the number is likely to grow due to the harsh economic realities in many countries.

 

[Josemendez]

Gambling in nature is very addictive and people need to understand this if ever they want to succeed in life . Gambling has rendered many people useless in life

 

[Abigael]

This is such a high percentage. The fact that teenagers have their own phones nowadays makes it so easy for them to gamble. Yet this addiction is so bad for their financial future. They should get help now when they are still young.

 

[Grandeur]

5% is not even really accurate to me, 5% would mean that one in fifty students which is what makes it different because when I was taking secondary school students tutorials majority of them were already addicted to one form of social vice or the other

 

[Dowenship]

Nowadays , in this digital era , online casinos have become so popular that even a teen pursuing his/her studies gets carried away with gambling and starts depositing money into the casinos from their parent's money or their pocket money and end up suffering from "Gambling addiction". Studies show that 4%-5% of teenagers have this gambling addiction problem and around 14% of them have symptoms of gambling addiction. It's the parent's responsibility to make sure their child doesn't gamble at such a tender age , but with children now using their own smart phones , parents think their children are making use of their phones for something good like studying or stuffs , but lot of teenagers make use of phones to gamble and win money. It's so important to stop this gambling addiction at young age so that it won't become a big problem later on in their future life.

Since they win there money from it, it wont be easy to stop them from gambling... this will rather infuriate the gambling act in them.

 

[Ruth]

I think there should be an age restriction for gambling shops teenagers shouldn't be allowed but since nowadays most everything is allowed it's going to be difficult to stop teenagers from getting involved in gambling.

 

[Setho]

This is a very bad statistic about the gambling data and there are some people that are very well expecting this number to rise because there is now very easy ways for people to gamble.

 

[kayode10]

That is one of the downsides of the internet. the number is on steady increase because those kids have access to internet right from their earliest age.

 

[Shigobad2020]

This is actually a very large number and it is becoming very soon because the number is likely to grow due to the harsh economic realities in many countries.

People are getting addicted to gambling everyday and most of them are underage people , and its because they are looking for ways to make money in a rapid way.