Gambling with our (Kids’) Futures: Gambling as a family policy issue
This paper from the Vanier Institute of the Family examines whether gambling is an important issue for Canada’s families. Is its impact significant enough for gambling to be thought of as a family policy issue?
Problem Gambling: A Guide for Families
One of four problem gambling handbooks offered at ProblemGambling.ca, this guide takes aim at the information most families faced with problem gambling want to know. The guide helps identify ways to bring family life back in order, ways to cope with financial issues, and ways counselling can help the family unit.
Does Someone You Care About Have Gambling Problems? Nova Scotia Health
In Nova Scotia, one in five adults knows someone with a gambling problem. This Department of Health Promotion and Protection (Problem Gambling Services) hbrochure offers a variety of helpful information including common indicators of problem gambling, characteristics and behaviors of those at risk, and information designed to help friends and family understand how the person they care for developed problems with gambling, why they seem unable to simply stop.
Problem Gambling and the Family
HelpGuide.org is a website designed to help people understand, prevent, and resolve life’s challenges. This particular page explores the manner in which gambling affects the family unit, and it offers advice pertaining to what family members should (and should not do) to address the issue.
Information for Family and Friends of Problem Gamblers
The Addictions Foundation of Manitoba provides links to valuable information for friends and family members of problem gamblers. These links include Gam-Anon’s 20 questions to help determine whether or not your loved one has a gambling problem.
Gambling and Your Child: When Your Teenager has a Gambling Problem
This brochure is designed to inform parents of youths' increased exposure to gambling, indicators their son or daughter may be facing a problem with gambling, how they can help, and how they can receive support.
Family Violence and Problem Gambling
This fact sheets from the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand looks at the relationship between male problem gamblers and the incidence of abuse of their female partners.
