How Incarceration Affects the Parent-Child Relationship and Family Dynamics

2017 ◽  
pp. 310-338
Author(s):  
Alicia Ferris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
Charitable Trust ◽  
Parent Child

The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world (Pew Charitable Trust, 2008). More than one in 100 adults are incarcerated and many of these individuals are parents who have one or more children who are under the age of eighteen. Therefore, 1.7 million children are affected by parental incarceration (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008). Children who have incarcerated parents are exposed to factors that put them at risk for increased delinquency and maladjustment in childhood (Aaron & Dallaire, 2010). Parental incarceration is a heart-wrenching topic, but needs to be discussed because it can negatively impact children and families. Thus, this chapter will explore how parental incarceration affects children and families. Specifically, the various relationships of parent-child, caregiver-child, parent-caregiver, and sibling relationships will be explored. In addition, this chapter will examine the developmental impacts parental incarceration has, legal recommendations, and interventions for children and families affected by parental incarceration.

Parental Incarceration’s Effect on Family: Effects on Mothers, Fathers, Marriage, Children, and Socioeconomic Status

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Hardy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Effects ◽  
Child Relationship

The objective of this paper is to provide a qualitative analysis of the effects incarceration has on family members. Incarceration affects a very large number of families in the United States and Canada, especially since the mass incarceration between the 1970s and 2000s that occurred in the United States. Incarceration was found to have both negative effects on incarcerated mothers and fathers, and it was found to increase the risk of divorce. Children were also affected by parental incarceration by raising their risks of developing mental illness, engaging in delinquent behaviour, having negative social experiences and damaging their parent-child relationship. Moreover, parental incarceration had little to no effect on a child’s academic performance and it displayed the child’s resiliency. Lastly, incarceration had negative effects on a family’s socioeconomic status and it increased the risk of second-generation offenders.

scholarly journals How Racial Politics Led Directly to the Enactment of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Guggenheim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Family Regulation ◽  
Parent Child

This Article is part of a celebration of the magnificent work of Dorothy Roberts who, more than any other scholar, has brilliantly demonstrated both the highly destructive qualities of the United States’ family regulation system and its relationship to the country’s legacy of slavery. The most vicious feature of the current family regulation system is the almost routine destruction of families resulting from an overly zealous enforcement of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, through which the federal government pays states to permanently banish parents from their children and legally sever the parent-child relationship when children have remained in foster care for fifteen months. This Article tells some of the racialized history that led to the enactment of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

Kirogi Women’s Psychological Well-Being: The Relative Contributions of Marital Quality, Mother–Child Relationship Quality, and Youth’s Educational Adjustment

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther S. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child

The current study is based on the responses of 153 married Korean mothers accompanying their youth in the United States or in New Zealand while their spouses remained in Korea. Kirogi means “wild geese” in Korean and has come to refer to split-family transnational living for the sake of children’s education. Spillover, or a positive correlation, between indicators assessing marital and parent–child relationship quality was tested within the transnational family context. It was also hypothesized that mother–child relationship quality and youth’s educational progress would be positively and uniquely predictive of indicators of maternal well-being when compared with marital quality due to education-focused Confucian values among Koreans. Results indicated positive correlations between indicators of marital and parent–child relationship quality; and only measures of marital quality had unique associations with maternal well-being.

scholarly journals Mediating effect of the parent-child relationship on the association between parenting stress and children’s eating behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Myoungock Jang ◽  
Roger Brown ◽  
Moonkyoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Limit Setting ◽  
Mediating Factors ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract Background Emerging evidence suggests that parenting stress plays a significant role in children’s eating behavior. However, the nature of the relationship between parenting stress and children’s health behaviors is still not well understood, possibly because there is limited understanding of the mediating factors. The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of the parent–child relationship on the association between parenting stress and children’s eating behaviors in families with young children. Methods Using a cross-sectional study design, we recruited mothers of families with children aged four to six years in the United States. We asked the mothers select one child if she has more than one eligible child. Mothers answered well-validated questionnaires regarding parenting stress, the parent–child relationship, and children’s eating behaviors. We utilized a structural equation model to analyze the mediating factors. Results A total of 172 mothers of children participated in this study. The children’s mean age was 4.92 (SD 0.89) years; 50% of children were female and 71.2% were non-Hispanic Whites. Parenting stress was associated with subcategories of the parent–child relationship (satisfaction with parenting [b* = − 0.69, p < .01], communication [b* = 0.45, p < 0.01], and limit setting [b* = − 0.82, p < .01]). The subcategories of communication and limit setting were negatively associated with food responsiveness in children (b* = − 0.24, p < .01; b* = − 0.46, p < .01, respectively). Limit setting was negatively associated with emotional overeating in children (b* = − 0.49, p < .01). Communication mediated the association between parenting stress and food responsiveness in children (b* = − 0.11, p < .01). The mediating role of limit setting was established in the association between parenting stress and food responsiveness as well as in the association between parenting stress and emotional overeating (b* = 0.38, p < .01; b* = 0.40, p < .01, respectively). Conclusions The parent–child relationship is an important component in improving children’s eating behaviors in families that have parents with higher parenting stress levels.

Shifting the blame frame: Agency and the parent–child relationship in an anti-obesity campaign

Childhood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
Laura Backstrom
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Michelle Obama ◽  
Let's Move ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Parent Child

Using thematic analysis of 97 Let’s Move! speeches that Michelle Obama delivered as part of her anti-obesity campaign in the United States, I examine how parent’s agency and children’s agency were framed in relation to each other. Drawing on framing theory, I find that parents and children were attributed different temporal dimensions of agency—or no agency at all—in each of Let’s Move!’s six parent–child frames.

scholarly journals Tough Topic, Necessary Reading: Finding Books for Children with Incarcerated Parents

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Schlafer ◽  
Alyssa Scrignoli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Incarceration Rate ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Children

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it is estimated that about 53 percent of men and 61 percent of women in the US prison population are parents of minor children.As the number of people incarcerated in US prisons and jails grows, so too does the number of children affected by their parents’ absence. Recent estimates suggest that more than 2.7 million US children now have a parent in prison or jail.

Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars: Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment Through a Digitally Distributed Reading Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 003288552110481
Author(s):  
David A. McLeod ◽  
Angela B. Pharris ◽  
Susan Marcus-Mendoza ◽  
Rachael A. M. Winkles ◽  
Rachel Chapman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Involvement ◽  
Parent Child

Incarceration impacts families by disrupting routine attachment, creating negative consequences for both the parent and child. This article examines the use of an intervention videoing incarcerated parents reading to their children and then delivering those videos to improve child outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach, a total of 587 surveys were completed by program participants and analyzed for parental perceptions of the program effectiveness. The intervention appeared to increase the frequency of correspondence between the parent and child, improved the sense of parent-child relationship, and increased a sense of involvement, attachment, and connectedness.

Shaping Values

Family Values ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brighouse ◽  
Adam Swift
Keyword(s):  
Parental Influence ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Parent Child ◽  
What Matters

This chapter focuses on the need to protect children from excessive parental influence, while respecting the interest that both parents and children have in the right kind of parent–child relationship. It challenges widespread views about the extent of parents' rights to influence their children's emerging views of the world and what matters in it. Children are separate people, with their own lives to lead, and the right to make, and act on, their own judgments about how they are to live those lives. They are not the property of their parents. And because they are not property, and yet parents are accorded such power over them, it is wrong for parents to treat them as vehicles for their own self-expression, or as means to the realization of their own views on controversial questions about how to live. The desire to extend oneself into the future, and to influence the shape that future takes, can be satisfied in other ways, without a parent relying on that authority over her children that is justified on other grounds.

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