Introduction
According to a study done late in 2014 statistics showed that over one million individuals are incarcerated. More than two million children in the U.S. population are experience growing up with at least one parent incarcerated. With so many individuals incarcerated it has an impact on society as a whole. Thus it affects the family and primarily the children of the incarcerated individual. “Children of incarcerated parents have higher rates of attention deficits that those with parents missing because of death or divorce, and higher rates of behavioral problems, speech, language delays, and other development delays according to a study published last summer in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that analyzed data from a …show more content…
I think having a parent that is incarcerated can affect the child not just emotionally but mentally as well. Parent incarceration can cause a child to have attachment issues because it makes it hard for children to build long lasting with others; children may suffer from depression, they are often sad and don’t want to participate in regular activities that they have done with parent that is incarcerated; or they become antisocial they don’t want to be sociable and they not as emphatic as others and they also display negative behaviors. It has been evident that maternal incarceration is more damaging that paternal incarceration. “The number of incarcerated mothers has more than double (120%) for 29,5000 in 1991 to 65,600 in 2007.” The purpose for this research is to investigate what issues children with incarcerated parents are suffering from and also because so many children are being affected by the mass incarceration and there is a lasting effect that parental incarceration have on children. The study that is being developed is to prove that children with incarcerated parents are more likely to have development issues versus a child without an …show more content…
The purpose of their study was to see if children with mental illness and incarcerated parents differ from other adolescents in routine mental health checkups. Researchers conducted research by using secondary analysis from patients and caregivers thought Texas and Arkansas. With this study if adolescents where identify by clinician to be mentally regarded they could not participate in study. Study was able to use 258 student which all of them had at least one parent that has been incarcerated. Results showed that adolescents who parent were incarcerated have high levels of risks factors. Thus, the studies covered a bros topic that I don’t feel the results they discovered are very accurate. Adolescent in juvenile justice or foster care systems were not included in the study and the individuals that did participate in the study were living in homes with annual income over 20,000. With the income such as that it don’t include individuals living in poverty or the parents that have been incarcerated before and the challenges they face with
According to a study done late in 2014 statistics showed that over one million individuals are incarcerated. More than two million children in the U.S. population are experience growing up with at least one parent incarcerated. With so many individuals incarcerated it has an impact on society as a whole. Thus it affects the family and primarily the children of the incarcerated individual. “Children of incarcerated parents have higher rates of attention deficits that those with parents missing because of death or divorce, and higher rates of behavioral problems, speech, language delays, and other development delays according to a study published last summer in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that analyzed data from a …show more content…
I think having a parent that is incarcerated can affect the child not just emotionally but mentally as well. Parent incarceration can cause a child to have attachment issues because it makes it hard for children to build long lasting with others; children may suffer from depression, they are often sad and don’t want to participate in regular activities that they have done with parent that is incarcerated; or they become antisocial they don’t want to be sociable and they not as emphatic as others and they also display negative behaviors. It has been evident that maternal incarceration is more damaging that paternal incarceration. “The number of incarcerated mothers has more than double (120%) for 29,5000 in 1991 to 65,600 in 2007.” The purpose for this research is to investigate what issues children with incarcerated parents are suffering from and also because so many children are being affected by the mass incarceration and there is a lasting effect that parental incarceration have on children. The study that is being developed is to prove that children with incarcerated parents are more likely to have development issues versus a child without an …show more content…
The purpose of their study was to see if children with mental illness and incarcerated parents differ from other adolescents in routine mental health checkups. Researchers conducted research by using secondary analysis from patients and caregivers thought Texas and Arkansas. With this study if adolescents where identify by clinician to be mentally regarded they could not participate in study. Study was able to use 258 student which all of them had at least one parent that has been incarcerated. Results showed that adolescents who parent were incarcerated have high levels of risks factors. Thus, the studies covered a bros topic that I don’t feel the results they discovered are very accurate. Adolescent in juvenile justice or foster care systems were not included in the study and the individuals that did participate in the study were living in homes with annual income over 20,000. With the income such as that it don’t include individuals living in poverty or the parents that have been incarcerated before and the challenges they face with