Problem with Teenage Gambling

Gambling, a past time in america that has become as much of a hobby as coin collecting. Something that as a result more than 5 million Americans have become pathalogical gamblers, half of which are young people ages 12-17. When you think of compulsive gambling you would tend to think it would be more of an adult problem, but it isn't. Due to technological advances this problem is becoming a traumatizing teen epidemic. So today we're …

…cause amoung youths, and why this problem is becoming as big as it is. We also now know some of the ways we can attempt to mend the situation. I'm not saying that gambling as a whole is wrong. If it's legal and done responsibly then there should not be consequences of great depth. We just need to try a little bit harder to keep those consequences from getting in the hands of our youth