Published: 09/24/2014
(Reuters) – Theoretically forbidden to minors, but in practice it is easily accessible to teenagers and young adults who surf the web. This is the ‘gambling’, gambling online, according to experts, is becoming a dangerous temptation to which it increasingly difficult to resist even among the lower age groups. And that could cost you. According to the latest national survey by the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP) – conducted on a representative sample of 2,107 students from the lower middle class – 13% of teens surveyed said they had played, and bet money on online gambling sites . All this despite a law prohibiting minors from gambling. And the percentage of teens surveyed who admits that he attended these sites and I played “Money”, one or more times, nearly 17% if we consider only the males.
Among the ‘baby-players’, 45% claimed to have won, only 13% admitted defeat resulting in loss of money, while 36% did not recall the outcome of the economic experiences. But who has won or lost, 32% of the sample was, however, declared oriented to repeat the experience.
“The reflection to do in the face of these numbers, which in the strict sense of the law should be 0%, is twofold. On the one hand – says Maurizio Tucci, curator of the survey – we note the almost nothing deterrence represented by ‘bans minors’ of which the web is full. Secondly we must consider that beyond the violation of the ban, these young players also how to manage money and use it in areas where it should in any case be a check on the identity. “
Tucci continued: “The mechanisms for access to online gaming, the custom of many of these sites to offer free chips ‘welcome’, and payment systems accepted, however, are such that it is difficult even for a minor, perhaps due to an adult complacent, have gaming experiences. “
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