- [Voiceover] Now I remember what I was gonna say. One of the things that I just wanted to point out here to our audience is that while you and I are sounding a little Perry Masonish... - [Voiceover] (laughs] - [Voiceover] Neither one of us has anything against social recreational gambling. - [Voiceover] Not a thing. Right. - [Voiceover] It's just like I don't care if somebody has a beer, that doesn't bother me in the least.
You can drink alcohol, you can go out and gamble. Where it becomes a problem or if your inculcating your children into the culture is where I start having an issue, I just wanted to make sure that parents aren't buying their 16 year old a kegger for their 16th birthday or condoning sneaking them into the casino or those kinds of things because you're really shaping their behavior. But I have absolutely nothing against an adult over the age of 21 walking into a casino, gambling to their heart's content or whatever they can afford or those type of things. - [Voiceover] Within their budget. - [Voiceover] Within your budget and we're not anti-gambling or anti-alcohol, it's just that we, Denise Q. and I, have just seen so many lives really severely negatively impacted, if not almost ruined, by some of these behaviors and substances. So I just kind of wanted to throw that out there that out there that we aren't... - [Voiceover] Absolutely this site. - [Voiceover] We don't wanna close down every casino - [Voiceover] No. - [Voiceover] or every bar, that's not where we're going with this. - [Voiceover] Thank you for that. No, we take a firm stand on everybody's right to do whatever form of entertainment they choose and as soon as it becomes in any way problematic, out of control creating issues, that's where we step in. I will not be presenting a case study today, but Denise E. will. I simply want to say that the majority of people walking in the door are parents that I see and I know from their stories, without having to see the looks on the children's faces. I've only experienced this a handful of times, but I generally see teenagers with families. I rarely see... (silence) Now have a teenager who is angry, hurt, upset, betrayed, lied to and has a certain opinion of that parent, moving forward. If that's not a life-changing experience, I don't know what is. Whether the child chooses to forgive and whether they are able to work through it, who knows what the strength of that family is, but just that one episode, let alone what all the other arguing and avoidance and lying and betrayal issues were on the whole family while that parent was actively engaged in gambling. And whether they choose to become gamblers later on is certainly impacted because the majority of the families that I've talked to, that's the last thing children wanna do when their mom or dad has had a severe gambling problem. But it doesn't mean that they don't become one. - [Voiceover] Right. - [Voiceover] Out of whatever reason. So the rest of this slide is talking about defining problem gambling the way Dr. Volberg did led to some really interesting statistics. The prevalence rates are highest among Oregon adolescents living in households without a parent compared to those living with one or two parents. That stressed out single parent or children who are living in households without a parent, which I presume means they're living with other family members or in foster care or - [Voiceover] Or grandparents.
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