Of the 2.5 million people who are incarcerated in the United States, over half are parents.
While it is well-established that incarceration has a detrimental impact on the children of …

Background Maternal imprisonment negatively impacts mothers and their children and is
likely to have lifelong and intergenerational sequelae. In many jurisdictions nationally and …

As rates with which women are incarcerated have risen around the world, research
examining how incarceration affects the health of people who are pregnant, their newborns …

OBJECTIVES: To determine if longitudinal associations exist between parental incarceration
(PI) and health care use or health behaviors among a national sample of young adults …

Objective Mental health symptoms in jailed parents with young children were examined in
relation to gender, race, trauma, parenting stress, and supports. Background Most US …

The significant number of annual US jail admissions is intricately tied to the increasing
population of children with incarcerated parents. Some proportion of these children will visit …

Aims To explore the experiences of provincially incarcerated mothers in Nova Scotia,
Canada; and to make recommendations with respect to improving the experiences of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Parental incarceration (PI) is both an adverse childhood
experience (ACE) and an influencer of pediatric health. Despite evidence that rural America …

This book provides a systematic exploration of family literacy, including its historic origins,
theoretical expansion, practical applications within the field, and focused topics within family …

Research points to parental incarceration as a social determinant of child health. Still, the
extent to which the elevated health burden of children exposed to parental incarceration …