In my essay I will examine how children who fall a victim to parental incarceration suffer everyday. The children deal with short term and long term effects of having an incarcerated parent even after the parent returns home from prison.
According to Rutgers University National Resource Center on Children & Families of the Incarcerated more than 2.7 million children have in the United States of America have an incarcerated parent, that is one in every twenty eight children. About 10 million children have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their life for a child in the United States this can be very scary. A study performed in 1998 showed that 67% of the arrests were done in front of the child, 27% reported that weapons were drawn in front of the child and 4.3% reported a physical struggle. Separation impact can kick in from seeing the parent being taken away in such an abrupt fashion symptoms of this is depression, anger, and doing poor in school. As I looked further into this study I found information that focused on the situation of the parent being arrested from the child 's point of view. As claimed by a the Prison Fellowship website …show more content…
Exposure to multiple ACE’s significantly increases the likelihood of long-term negative mental health and health outcomes, As I continued my research on the impact of going through the “adverse childhood experience” I found very interesting information on what ACE could increase within a person. Some of the conditions that were found are but not limited to: Alcoholism, suicide attempts, adolescent pregnancy, and early initiation of sexuxal activity. All of the effects of dealing with ACE are long term illnesses that are the hardest to treat and most go untreated, which can lead to the illness lasting for the person 's whole life
According to Rutgers University National Resource Center on Children & Families of the Incarcerated more than 2.7 million children have in the United States of America have an incarcerated parent, that is one in every twenty eight children. About 10 million children have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their life for a child in the United States this can be very scary. A study performed in 1998 showed that 67% of the arrests were done in front of the child, 27% reported that weapons were drawn in front of the child and 4.3% reported a physical struggle. Separation impact can kick in from seeing the parent being taken away in such an abrupt fashion symptoms of this is depression, anger, and doing poor in school. As I looked further into this study I found information that focused on the situation of the parent being arrested from the child 's point of view. As claimed by a the Prison Fellowship website …show more content…
Exposure to multiple ACE’s significantly increases the likelihood of long-term negative mental health and health outcomes, As I continued my research on the impact of going through the “adverse childhood experience” I found very interesting information on what ACE could increase within a person. Some of the conditions that were found are but not limited to: Alcoholism, suicide attempts, adolescent pregnancy, and early initiation of sexuxal activity. All of the effects of dealing with ACE are long term illnesses that are the hardest to treat and most go untreated, which can lead to the illness lasting for the person 's whole life