The effects on children with incarcerated parents.
Social Justice Issue:
Children’s lives are seriously disrupted when parents are incarcerated. Working in the child welfare field, I see this first hand. I see the effects of when one or both parents are incarcerated. Sometimes child removal is warranted. Other times, case management services are warranted to ensure that the family has services in place to prevent high risk situations. There are a high number of children whom are overlooked in the child welfare system when parents are incarcerated due to friends or families members stepping in to care for these vulnerable children.
The effects on the children vary in so many different circumstances. Studies have shown according to Kampfner, “children have a variety of behavioral, psychological, and educational problems”. Children all respond in different ways, including sadness, excessive crying, depression, diminished school performance, truancy, disciplinary problems, alcohol and other drug use, running away and sometime aggressive behaviors. Of course, all children respond in different ways these were just a few that stuck out to me in several different throughout my experience as a caseworker. (Kampfner, 1995). …show more content…
Studies of prison and jail inmates have found that about 70% of female inmates with children had lived with their children prior to incarceration, compared to about 50% of males. (Children of incarcerated parents, pg. 165). Incarceration is a vigorous process that many people do not understand. There are short term effects of separation of the child from the parent, the impact of lack of parental involvement during the period of incarceration and the effects of reunification after the incarceration
Social Justice Issue:
Children’s lives are seriously disrupted when parents are incarcerated. Working in the child welfare field, I see this first hand. I see the effects of when one or both parents are incarcerated. Sometimes child removal is warranted. Other times, case management services are warranted to ensure that the family has services in place to prevent high risk situations. There are a high number of children whom are overlooked in the child welfare system when parents are incarcerated due to friends or families members stepping in to care for these vulnerable children.
The effects on the children vary in so many different circumstances. Studies have shown according to Kampfner, “children have a variety of behavioral, psychological, and educational problems”. Children all respond in different ways, including sadness, excessive crying, depression, diminished school performance, truancy, disciplinary problems, alcohol and other drug use, running away and sometime aggressive behaviors. Of course, all children respond in different ways these were just a few that stuck out to me in several different throughout my experience as a caseworker. (Kampfner, 1995). …show more content…
Studies of prison and jail inmates have found that about 70% of female inmates with children had lived with their children prior to incarceration, compared to about 50% of males. (Children of incarcerated parents, pg. 165). Incarceration is a vigorous process that many people do not understand. There are short term effects of separation of the child from the parent, the impact of lack of parental involvement during the period of incarceration and the effects of reunification after the incarceration