Parents are taking an interest in understanding gambling addiction.
Due to new local school gambling events, multiple television
programs on poker, local news and casinos parents have
decided to educate themselves.
Parents now realize if their teenager develops a compulsive gambling
addiction their future course of action and time involvement
is unknown. This isn’t something that is here today and
gone tomorrow.
Compulsive teenagers with a gambling addiction have one or more of
the following in common:
1.
School grades drop
2.
Social development decreases
3.
Low
self esteem
4.
Self destructive behavior
5.
Asking you why this happened to them?
6.
Thinking suicide is the only way out.
7.
Stealing
8.
Pawning personal possessions
9.
Negative Attitude
10.
Cutting School
11.
Disappearing for long periods of time
12.
Blaming the parent because they gamble too.
13.
Working a part time job to pay off debts
14.
Stopped after school activities
15.
Watched poker tournaments on cable and television
16.
I
tried to stop but I couldn’t
Parents have been forced to educate themselves on the above when
confronted with their teenager’s gambling addiction. From
there they try to find answers instead they have more
questions. They are not looking to point the finger but
really to get help for their child. They also would like to
help prevent another parent from having to deal with this
addiction.
