AUS - “Study reveals how states are hooked on gambling addicts”
Author: Houston, Cameron
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Published Date: Jan 03, 2008
Description:
The poker machine industry escapes tough regulation because state governments are addicted to the billions sucked in every year from people with gambling problems, a study has found. Almost half the $10 billion lost on poker machines nationally is spent by NSW gamblers, and some states take about half their total gambling revenue from people with an addiction or the risk of one, the study found. Its authors, Charles Livingstone of Monash University and Richard Woolley from the University of Western Sydney, are scathing about the states’ regulation of the national poker machine industry.
One of the most beautiful aspects of life is the relationship and love between a mother and child. To go through life without a mother’s love can be difficult. The only thing I received from my mother was an addiction to gambling. As a baby to adulthood I was raised around gambling. During these frequent card games for money there was filthy language used, arguing, and fighting. I could play a hand of poker at the age of five — Linda Sommer Farley
Synopsis:
Linda tells us what life was like for her growing up. She shares with us the trauma of having an abusive grandfather and a mother with a gambling addiction and how it effected her throughout her life. She expresses her embarrassment of growing up poor and the challenges she faced through out her school years due to her poverty. She wrote this book with the purest of intentions - to in some way help others.
This Book : A Childhood Taken Away by a Mother and Grandfather
Author: Linda Sommer Farley
is available at: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, Collinsbooks.com.au, Foyles uk.com, Tower.com, and can also be ordered at Barnes & Noble and Borders Express Book Stores.
Comment by Donny — March 25, 2008 @ 9:42 am
I want to thank the author - Linda Sommer Farley for writing her book. After reading A Childhood Taken Away By a Mother and Grandfather I understood so much more about gambling. I must tell her that her father did love her no matter what her mother did or said.
Comment by Shalcey — December 11, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
A Childhood Taken Away opened my eyes to what I was doing to my family - Thank you to the author !!
Comment by Jerry — March 1, 2009 @ 12:43 pm