Drungs, Alcohol and Sex are the everyday concern for parents, teachers and community leaders. They talk to children about these topics in hope to reducing this risky behovior. I personalLy think that officials, teachers and parents should try preventing online gambling.
Free online gambling has most certainly become the most popular pass time activity among most youths. Free online gambling introdueces teenagers and young adults to gambling and slowly grooms them to other forms in which money is then being used to gamble in achieving greater thrills and taking it to new levels of excitements!
Generalization has been done by saying that gambling is exciting, fun, risk- free and stimulating. However, I will have to disagree with the statement.
There are thousands of gambling sites on the Internet that are offering everything from poker to casino type gambling. Most of these sites offer the optioin of gambling for free or for real money. Online gambling is hustle- free, convenient and easily accessible by all as it can be at home at any time, most often under no supervision from parents. It's low level of physical exertion and high level of stimulation most definately appeal to youths, many of whom are tech-savvy and have excess to the internet.
One needs to recognize the risk factors and when it becomes a problem! It's a problem when one is spending too much time or money (doing it). Gambling, is when you bet something of value on an event with an uncertain outcome. That something often is money but also can be time, emotion or attention.
The most known fact that free online gambling can be an attention grabber for youths, who think they're not doing anything harmful, as it doesn't involve money. Hence, the odds of winning tend to be much higher when there's no money involved. This tends to create a notion that they're skillful or lucky, or that they can win money at other games. This most deffinately disconnects them from reality of the situaltion and they may want to keep playing it more and more. But if they are gambling with money, they are at risk of many other things such as loss of money, identity theft. Although online gambling is growing in popularity, there are no guarante of a payout. Although one may not be gambling with money, gambling was always associated with alcohol. They may bindge drink but it may turn into an unhealthy lifstyle leading to alcolohlism.
Therefore, free online gambling should be curb at an early stage. Parents and teachers should advice teenagers about online gambling of its pros and cons.
Cheers..
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