It is not surprising that as the ease and
accessibility of gambling increase with advances in online gambling that the
number of people playing will increase and intern the number of people who
develop compulsive gambling habits will also increase. A charity that is geared
toward helping those who are coping with their addiction to gambling has
released some figures of who they feel are the next most likely demographic to
have a problem with online gambling, women.
That's right, they have noticed the number of
women admitting to compulsive gambling growing by nine times the amount in the
year 2000. But this is also in step with the fact that as online gambling
became more popular the number of people turning toward the help-line also
increased by over forty percent in just one year. What was once receiving only
7,500 visits in 2005, is now being inundated by almost ninety thousand people
all expressing their felling of addiction for online gambling and the like.
Women, who have long not been considered the
majority of the gambling population, which is greatly due to the fact that most
women where oppose to the idea of hanging out in a bookie's office or in a
casino, are now finding comfortable access to gambling online in the comfort and
seclusion of their own home. But some worry that there are still many women who
have developed and online gambling problem but are still refusing to admit that
they have a problem.
