- [Voiceover] Or grandparents. They have a much higher rate of gambling. I think acculturation, what's accepted, the amount of time that parents have and that's probably the last bit of preaching that I wanna do today is there are numerous studies that will point out that having dinner together around the table once a week has a greater prevention rate for later on teenager and adult manifestation of drug, alcohol and other addictive behaviors than almost anything else. Just sitting around the table and having dinner together at least once a week. And I think this is the reverse of what that research is talking about.
When the parenting and the socialization and the love and the attention is lacking, they're gonna go looking for love in all the wrong places. So the last one, well the second to the last one, they usually play card games for money and the gambling activity that their most likely to have done in the past year is wager on sports. The number of children who are in the family, in my opinion, where sports is a significant social and recreational activity, if parents just knew to look for the signs and symptoms of their child wagering with their friends, with them, with others, turning into a compulsive gambling problem, that's it, that's the preventive message is know what the signs and symptoms are. The last piece that I wanna give you on the Oregon Youth and Parent Study is that adolescents have more naive attitudes towards gambling than their parents. And that has a lot to do with brain development as Denise E. has already pointed out, however, relatively high proportions of parents, regardless of whether or not they gamble, believe that gambling is a harmless activity. Let me just kinda emphasize that. If the parents believe that gambling is a harmless activity, that is gonna have an influence on what the child thinks. And that youth who gamble are unlikely to have problems with school and that youth gambling is not associated with alcohol or drug use. And we know differently, we know that these poor parents are uninformed and ignorant or they're naive, or they're in denial, or they're avoiding the truth. So education and prevention is gonna play a big role in changing that. - [Voiceover] Right and this is Denise E. and the article from Psychiatry Journal also pointed out it is so much easier for parents to see the signs and symptoms of a child using drugs or alcohol than it is for them to see the signs of a child who has difficulty with gambling, which offers fewer opportunities or less opportunity for parents to intervene when those issues are present, so they have to educate themselves on if your child is lying to them about where their money is going, borrows money and doesn't ever pay it back, starts stealing out of mom or dad's wallet, their little brother's piggy bank, those kinds of things. You have to know kind of what to look for so I think it's very helpful of parents who educate themselves. - [Voiceover] A little education goes a long way. I would like our next polling question to come up, question number four. Of what they actually are... oops, sorry, one more technical difficulty, do not drop your stuff on the floor while you're talking. Let's go ahead and broadcast the results now. - [Voiceover] Wow, that's actually pretty close. Marijuana is definitely the number one issue and it is more and more prevalent with Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana. The message that adolescents are getting now is that marijuana is harmless, that it's a medicine, using that as an excuse, use. A lot of kids talk about how they can't wait to get a medical marijuana card because they've all heard how easy it is. Any sort of soft tissue complaint and you can get a medical marijuana card. The unfortunate piece in all of this is that what the research shows is that marijuana is just so detrimental to kids' brains.
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