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Underage Gambling Report Released

It doesn’t take a degree to realize that underage gambling is an economic and societal problem, but getting a professor to prove that point couldn’t possibly hurt. The United Kingdom’s Gambling Commission has finally released its long-awaited study of underage slot machine and casino gambling this week, to great interest domestically and abroad. The proliferation of online slot and casino play sites on the World Wide Web has brought the dangerously attractive world of gambling to children and young adults in ways that are more accessible than other. The youngest generation of Brits (and Americans!) is the most computer-literate that the world has ever seen, and it seems that, no matter what safeguards online casinos attempt to put in place, these savvy young people will find ways around them. In fact, the parents of these underage individuals will even help them get to the gambling sites, in many cases!

Professor Gill Valentine was commissioned to determine exactly what was the scope of underage gambling in the U.K. Valentine’s research found that simple software fixes on the part of online slot machine and casino gambling sites would never be sufficient to curb the significant issues inherent in the problem. Education and new programs on a national level were the professor’s suggestions for how to best deal with the problems.

Valentine found that the issue is, indeed, serious. His research confirmed that young people who gamble online at an early age have a significantly-higher likelihood of developing a serious gambling problem (like ddiction) later on in life.

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