Find out more about the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation.
Resources to help professionals identify problem gambling clients and respond to their needs.
Children
Having parents with problem gambling can be a really upsetting, confusing and lonely experience. This is a place for the children of gamblers, whether still at home or adults, to talk about your experiences.
Anonymous
15 March 2012
As what the Chinese says "buying for sex", "gambling", "drugs", in the order which man can ever addict to. As can be seen, prostitution is the hardest to get over with, then is the gambling.
Anonymous
05 March 2012
I've just discovered that my mother is still gambling at pokies. She has lost over $50,000.00. She lies. I have known her as a completely different person. It hurts and is so consuming.
Broken rose tinted glasses
20 February 2012
One day before valentines day, after 25 years of marriage my mother went to the bank to look at redrawning on the loan for our family house.
Anonymous
19 February 2012
My mother has a gambling problem and it has effected me since I was in elementary school. I had to play the mother figure to my two siblings because my mom worked in the morning and gambled at night.
Anonymous
14 February 2012
I know it's hard on people to quit, but maybe they should start thinking of others and the consequences of their actions.
Anonymous
05 February 2012
My mom has a gambling addiction. She goes out once a week, but spends more than she needs to.
Anonymous
28 January 2012
To all those who have commented on this forum, I truly understand how each of you feels as I myself have gone through the samething.
Ember
27 November 2011
I have just finished reading all the comments posted below. It makes me sad to read them as it is exactly how I have been feeling and what I have been experiencing. My Mum is a problem gambler.
Anonymous
23 October 2011
I feel for all of you. I'm am not a gambling addict but I know my father is.
Sharing your experiences of gambling can help you, and help others.
