Parents In Jail Research Paper

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When parents are separated from their kids because they're in jail it has a huge effect on the kid because they only have one parent to take care of them and their not going to feel comfortable because they should have both parents there to support them and help them with anything they need like in paragraph 17 “ What is it about incarceration that really matters, that is so damaging to kids .” As you can see it is so depressing for a kid to have a parent in jail cause it not comfortable to only one parent point of view for everything. The one thing we can do for the kid that has a parent in jail is we should help them with stuff that they don't understand like in paragraph 31 “ They can't go to a parent teacher conference they can't be

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