Family First opposes all forms of legalized gambling for both moral and pragmatic reasons. We believe the net societal effect of government sanction of gambling has been disastrous.

Gambling from its very foundation is morally bankrupt. It is driven and subsists on greed and undermines the work ethic. Gambling’s premise is ‘something for nothing’—a concept that sanctions idleness rather than industriousness, slothfulness instead of initiative.

In addition, gambling is undeniably linked to undesirable outcomes such as:

• Increase in Governmental Social Costs
• Increase in Gambling Addiction
• Loss of Work Productivity 
• Cannibalization of Local Economies
• Increase in Crime
• Proliferation of Organized Crime
• Exploitation of poor
• Increase in Domestic Abuse
• Increase in Divorce
• Increase in Depression
• Bankruptcy
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Suicide
• Prostitution
• Substance Abuse