Full Description
As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent. The vast majority of incarceration occurs in locally operated jails and disproportionately impacts families of color, those experiencing poverty, and rural households. However, we are only beginning to understand the various ways in which children cope with the incarceration of a parent - particularly the coping of young children who are most at risk for the adversity and also the most detrimentally impacted. When Are You Coming Home? helps answer questions about how young ones are faring when a parent is incarcerated in jail. Situated within a resilience model of development, the book presents findings related to children's stress, family relationships, health, home environments, and visit experiences through the eyes of the children and families. This humanizing, social justice-oriented approach discusses the paramount need to support children and their families before, during, and after a parent's incarceration while the country simultaneously grapples with strategies of reform and decarceration.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 A National Tragedy: Introduction to Children
with Incarcerated Parents
2 "Is Daddy Getting Taken Away?": Parental Arrest
and Family Separation
3 "Look, It's My Family Together!": Family Relationships
during Parental Incarceration
4"We're Still Working on It": Children's Health
and Development
5 "Just Temporary": Caregiving and Children's
Home Environments
6 "It Is So Good to Hug You!": Visiting and Other
Forms of Parent-Child Contact
7 "Da-Da Gonna Play with Me Soon!": Reintegration
for Incarcerated Parents
8 Opportunities for Growth: Resilience and Its
Implications for Intervention and Policy
Appendix A: Study Methods
Appendix B: Study Measures
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
