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Focusing on the Children

Underage gambling is a hot button all over the world mainly because the expansion of the online casino gambling industry means that underage gamblers have increased access to the sites no matter what preventive measures are in place at the gambling sites. The online casinos themselves have policies and software in place designed to minimize the accessibility of internet gambling accounts to minors and problem gamblers. The UK Gambling Commission has decided to tackle the issue of minors at the online casinos and announced that Professor Gill Valentine’s commissioned report on the subject of underage gambling has just been released.

Professor Valentine’s report is, specifically, a literature review of children and young people gambling. The Commission is looking for a comprehensive round up of the information readily available on the subject as well as information concerning where there are gaps in research and knowledge. Basically, the UK liberalized the countries online casino gambling legislation and gave internet gambling companies both more liberties and more responsibilities when it comes to offering services to UK gamblers. A big area of concern for the UK Gambling Commission is the short and long-term affects that gambling has on children and young people.

The report showed some surprising results that point less to errors from the online casinos and more of a national issue that can only be fixed through education and new programs in place. Valentine’s report included the observation that underage gamblers invariably find a way to gamble no matter what restrictions are in place, and that some times the parents of these underage gamblers even facilitate the gambling. Coupled with that was the information that indicates that underage gamblers suffer from higher amounts of problem gambling or show signs of becoming problem gamblers in higher percentages than the percentage of adult gamblers.