Gambling: Pros And Cons

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The problem with gambling is that the odds always favor the house. The more that someone gambles against these odds, the more certain it becomes that they will lose. Gambling can become addicting very quickly, and then, when pathological gambling occurs, it rarely affects just the person doing the gambling. It affects family savings, college education and retirement funds disappear, and under the stress of losing all of these things, there are many compulsive gamblers that will commit domestic violence. For example, since casinos came to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, domestic violence has increased 69%, and an estimated 37% of all pathological gamblers have abused their children (Horn5).
A less well-known fact about gambling is that many gambling addicts will turn into criminals (Rose 3). Many of these people will commit felonies to pay off gambling debts, such as tax evasion, credit card, loan, and insurance fraud. These people also tend to be people that have never committed ...

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