Gambling with our (Kids’) Futures: Gambling as a family policy issue
The Vanier Institute of the Family presents a paper designed to examine whether gambling today 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 www.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, learning how counseling can help the family unit, and inform families of resources that have helped others in their situation.
Does Someone You Care About Have Gambling Problems? Nova Scotia Health
In Nova Scotia, one in five adults knows someone with a gambling problem. The Department of Health Promotion and Protection (Problem Gambling Services) has designed a brochure for such individuals, offering a variety of helpful information including indicators of problem gambling, characteristics and behaviors of those at risk, information designed to help friends and family understand how the person they care for developed problems with gambling and why the are unable to simply stop, and suggestions as to what they can do to help both the person they care for, and themselves.
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 ways in which gambling affects the family unit and 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 valuable information for friends and family members of problem gamblers. The information includes Gam-Anon’s 20 questions to help determine whether or not your loved one has a gambling problem.
Gambling and Your Child: When Your Teenage has a Gambling Problem
A brochure designed to inform parents of today’s 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 is one of many fact sheets offered by the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand. This particular sheet looks at the relationship between male problem gamblers and the incidence of abuse on their female partners.
