A STUDY ON CHILDREN’S EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL ONLINE CONTENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ONLINE GAMBLING

AUTHOR – THATSHINYA.S, STUDENT AT SAVEETHA SCHOOL OF LAW, SAVEETHA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND TECHNICAL SCIENCES (SIMATS), SAVEETHA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

BEST CITATION – THATSHINYA.S, A STUDY ON CHILDREN’S EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL ONLINE CONTENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ONLINE GAMBLING, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (8) OF 2025, PG. 1004-1016, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344

ABSTRACT

Online gambling is a game where the user or gambler who is online gambling in using the electronic media with accessing the internet as a medium for gambling. Online gambling also known as a cyber-gambling.. According to the Cambridge Dictionary Online, the gambling can be briefly defined as “ the activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race”. Online gambling (or Internet gambling) is any kind of gambling conducted on the internet. The research method followed is descriptive research. The data is collected through a questionnaire and the sample size is 253. Random sampling method is adopted in the study to collect the data. The samples were collected from the general public with reference to chennai. The independent variables are gender , age, educational qualification ,marital status.The dependent variables are advertisements, compulsion from friends, earning money, educating the children from school. Parental monitoring, most of the parents are not ready to talk about the gambling and other harmful online contents but parents should start interacting with the children and educate them with pros and cons of the gambling and other harmful contents so that children can come to know about it. Government has made many initiatives to bring awareness among the public to give exposure to the public and children about online gambling but the government can make more initiative by bringing any new legislation and can conduct awareness camps about online gambling in various places.

KEY WORDS: Online gambling, money, betting, sport, children’s exposure.