According to the report, the impact of human suffering is truly immeasurable. Many children are hurt, even if they themselves do not have a gambling problem. Quite often they are the victims of addicted parents or guardians. The Commission heard testimony of numerous cases in which parents or a caretaker locked children in cars for an extended period of time while they gambled. In at least two cases, the children died.
College graduates have the lowest.
With respect to household income. Legalized gambling victimizes the poor and preys on our society's weakest members. It entices those who are the most desperate with the offer of a way to achieve wealth and prosperity. It tempts those who are at the most vulnerable point, and this is truly disturbing. A nation such as ours cannot, and must not, put the interest of industrialized gambling above the need and concern that we must have for the poor.