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Online gambling is often risky and unsafe, but it is a choice that people make. Still, it is the concern about who the user is that makes for another problem that parents have tried to prevent. Almost anyone with an internet connection could partake in online gambling. This includes minors who happen to be one of the most frequent users of the Internet. There are groups who try to protect minors that say "(g)ambling is now more prevalent in teen culture than smoking, drinking or drugs, according to a survey by McGill University in Montreal" and that "Technically savvy young people are turning increasingly to Internet gambling sites, which are easy, convenient and anonymous" (http://www.bewebaware.ca/english/gambling.aspx).
Even recently, there was an incident in Hanover where the "Police Department officials are currently contemplating whether to investigate and charge students for their involvement in online campus gambling rings". You can read about it here. It is because of such easy access to the Internet at school or any place with a connection that minors cannot be truly prohibited from doing what they want online, especially gambling.
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