Working with Children of Incarcerated parents

WORKING WITH CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS

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INTRODUCTION

Parental incarceration is a plague in the modern day society . Millions of children in the United States of America have at least one parent in prison and millions more have experienced the incarceration of one of their parents in their lifetime . Parental incarceration has several adverse effects in the lives of these children . These children experience problems in school , drug abuse , join mobs or gangs and they eventually become delinquent

This explores and discusses

the problems that the children face and how to manage the trauma of an incarcerated parent

STATISTICS

America has over two million children with at least one parent in jail this estimate to about two out of every a hundred children is directly affected . In 1999 it was estimated that 721 ,500 of State and Federal prisoners were parents to 1 ,498 ,800 children under age 18 . Twenty two percent of all minor children with a parent in prison were under 5 years old . Prior to admission , less than half of the parents in State prison reported living with their children . Of those who lived with their children forty four percent were fathers , while sixty four percent were mothers (Wright and Seymour , 2000

EFFECTS OF PARENTAL INCARCERATION ON THE CHILDREN

There is a correlation between parental incarceration and child behavior parental incarceration poses a great hindrance to a child 's social , psychological and emotional development . Children become traumatized by the incarceration of their...