If a parent takes care of their children until they are adults, it is difficult for a child to become involved in gambling or become an addicted gambler. And when that child becomes an adult, he will be able to understand his own good and bad. But the big problem will be when he becomes addicted to gambling as a minor. Nowadays, with the presence of the internet, the privacy of gambling related information has increased due to which many times parents do not realize that their child is gambling. Gambling is not a crime if an adult conducts gambling responsibly but when he behaves irresponsibly he will suffer from it.
I do not blame parents for everything because a child's environment includes school, church, peers, public gatherings, and mass media, all of which shape a child. This is why parents might play their role effectively and yet a child will still be involved in certain activities. I believe that a child will reach a point where he will be interested in what his peers are doing, which means that if such a child has peers who gamble, he will be more likely to learn how to gamble. I remember becoming a football fan while in secondary school because my friends were always talking about football, which piqued my interest. This means that if the discussion had been about gambling at the time, I might have become interested as well.