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Although written about American research, the finding from this article can be used by professionals everywhere. The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being shows that approximately 1 in 8 children who are investigated by child welfare services (CWS) agencies for mistreatment have parents who were recently arrested. These children are disproportionatley younger than other children who come into contact with CWS, more likely to be African American and far more likely to be living within the care system. Despite the fact that 2 in 5 children age 2 and older with arrested parents had clincally significant emotional or behavioral problems, only 1 in 10 received mental health care. Parents in the study varied in characteristics by race but rates of substance abuse, serious mental illness, domestic violence, and problems meeting basic needs were all higher among arrested parents than among other parents. Purchase Parental Arrest and Child Welfare Services Agencies on Psychnet.
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This peer reviewed study uses data from a UK mixed methods longitudinal study to explore how good quality face-to-face and telephone contact between children and imprisoned fathers correlated positively with a good relationship post release.
This was found to be significantly the case even when controlling for how long the father-child relationship lasted prior to imprisonment. Qualitative data to substantiate these findings highlighted that limited familiar interactions such as emotional support, physical comfort etc played a key role in maintaining the father-child relationship.
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This article considers three under analysed aspects of the wellbeing of children affected by parental imprisonment: time, space and agency. Time is considered in terms of children's past experiences and anticipated futures. Space is the thinking around new or changed environments. Agency is about resilience to structural, material and social confines which can intensify vulnerability. The interaction between these 3 spheres, the authors argue, allows researchers to identify key differences and broad similarities between these children. The article is illustrated with examples from a mixed methods longitudinal study.
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This paper considers the changes to the incentives and earned privileges (IEP) scheme in adult male prisons that took place in April 2013 throughout England and Wales, specifically how extra visits and family days continue to be offered as a reward for good behaviour.
This is in comparison to the female estate where visiting arrangements are detached from the IEP scheme, due to recognition that incentivising contact is incompatible with meeting the needs of imprisoned mothers and their children. The paper argues that a similar approach should be adopted within the male estate, promoting the rights of the child. This paper presents findings from in-depth interviews with families affected by parental imprisonment in England and Wales conducted as part of the COPING research project led by the University of Huddersfield. The COPING study examined the impact of parental incarceration on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and involved partners from across four countries; Partners Of Prisoners and Families Support Group (POPS) acted as the UK partner.
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Designed for pan-European professionals, volunteers and decision makers, this is a comprehensive illustrated and updated version of a publication which features initiatives, expertise and good practice examples of direct and indirect work with the children of imprisoned parents.
The publication is a children's rights centered publication based on the research project, Children Of Imprisoned Parents. It showcases pan-European practice examples throughout the 7 key sections which are themed around: legal frameworks; the impact of parental imprisonment on children's lives; parenting from prison; maintaining contact; mothers and young children in prison; training, tools and methodologies; and advocacy for policy and practice change.
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This peer reviewed article refers to the impact of parental imprisonment on children in the USA but can be learned from by authors anywhere.
It looks specifically at the trauma experienced by children of imprisoned parents including key processes such as visits and child care giving. The research utilises a comparison group of similarly disadvantaged, single care-giver families who do not have a parent in prison. The findings show that accounts of child trauma from both the care-giver and child were higher and more likely to be clinical cases amoung those who had experienced parental imprisonment. Looking at processes; visitation was likely to be more problematic and care-giving was more likely to be done by someone other than a biological parent when a parent was imprisoned compared to the other group. Parents' reports of child trauma were most often linked to distressing prison visits thus recommendations around improving visits for children are made. Use your Springer Link log in details to access Parental Incarceration and Child Trauma.
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