DraftKings chief executive Jason Robins said in an interview with CNBC that gambling is something every parent should talk to their children about. The remarks were reported on 29 October 2026. AZARplus and Casino.org both cite CNBC, and neither gives an exact date for the interview.
The important thing, Robins said, is a transparent relationship with one's children, in which they feel they can ask anything.
According to Casino.org alone, the interview was conducted by CNBC gaming reporter Contessa Brewer and took place this week.
AZARplus is the only outlet to report several further remarks. Robins said his own children know they cannot bet until they turn 21, which AZARplus describes as the legal age in the US, and he compared these conversations with the questions a child may have on seeing their parents drink wine. He also said he is open to users being required to set gambling limits, while admitting that making such limits mandatory is a complicated debate.
Everyone has a limit, he added.
Casino.org notes that DraftKings and FanDuel are the subject of several federal, state and city lawsuits alleging deceptive marketing.
Casino.org set Robins's comments alongside research from the Rutgers Center for Gambling Studies and a poll commissioned by the National Council on Problem Gambling. By that outlet's account, the Rutgers study suggests that almost 43% of US adolescents aged 13 to 17 gambled over the past year, and that, of those who gambled, almost 40% showed some level of problem gambling and 10.3% met the clinical definition of high-risk problem gambling.
Applied to all 13- to 17-year-olds, that works out to roughly 17% showing some level of problem gambling and about 4.4% meeting the clinical definition. This is arithmetic on the figures as Casino.org reports them, not numbers published by the study.
The reported figures come without a sample size, survey method or survey year. The study's own publication would show how many teenagers the percentages rest on.
The NCPG poll found that only about half of parents talk about gambling with their teens, and the council said it would develop educational tools for parents.
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