Are children affected by pathological gambling?
The answer is yes, and in several ways. Children of gamblers may be both physically and emotionally abandoned by their parents in terms of nurturing. They are left with others (or alone) while their parents gamble. They may spend hours each week with babysitters, giving them the sense of being abandoned. In addition, the dysfunction of a pathological gambler’s home can have a significant impact on the development of a child.
