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Children Of Prisoners - Kids of arrested and incarcerated parentsBY: Ms Royce | Category: Family | Post Date: 2008-07-09
Children do hard time for their parents crime. About 82 percent of the population incarcerated today is drug related. Of the female population 75 percent are mothers that were their children's primary caretakers. In addition to suffering emotionally from having their mothers taken from them, children are sometimes separated from all family at the time of their mother's incarceration, when they are placed into foster care. After a parent is incarcerated, children may feel victimized and begin to react negatively toward authority. Due to low self esteem and understandable depression, their grades in school may suffer. Eventually, children may seek acceptance by people in the drug/criminal world because these are people with whom they are familiar. All of these behaviors separate a child from main stream society, making them vulnerable to "the system" at an early age. Without intervention, these patterns are difficult to change. Kids with incarcerated parents need positive guidance from adults. Perhaps to avoid the emotional suffering that has resulted from losing a parent, first, to addiction, then, to "the system", our children may engage in negative, hurtful and even criminal behavior. According to statistics, children of incarcerated parents are 85 percent likely to go to prison as adults. There is a simple solution that would contribute to alleviating our children's suffering and that is to rehabilitate and educate their incarcerated parents. Instead of doling out lengthy sentences to felons, which simply serve to "warehouse" prisoners, while costing taxpayers millions of dollars, it would be more effective to teach prisoners different behaviors while in prison that the destructive lifestyle and behaviors with which they are familiar and which led them to commit the crimes that led to their imprisonment. It is expensive to send a person to prison, who without rehabilitation, is 85 percent likely to return to prison. Regular contact between an incarcerated parent and his or her child can decrease the chance of the parent Re-offending, and decrease the chances of the child going to prison later in life. Current estimates project as many as 96,000 children have a parent either in state prison, federal prison, community corrections or local jail in Washington State alone. Children who's parents have been arrested and incarcerated face unique difficulties. Many have experienced the trauma of sudden separation from their sole caregiver, and most are vulnerable to feelings of fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, depression and guilt. They may be moved from caretaker to caretaker. And the behavioral consequences can be severe, absent positive intervention, emotional withdrawal, failure in school, delinquency and risk of intergenerational incarceration. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: My name is Royce. I am focused on building my online classifieds website. For a mere $5.95 you can place a "featured ad" and upload three photos. I have 468x60 premium banner space available for $29.95 per month. Come to Royce Classified Ads at: http://www.royceclassifiedads.com Additional Articles: * Women are versatile. Status of women in Indian society. * The joys of becoming a dad * Life and times in Bangalore. Information about Bangalore city. * The power of Astrology: Understanding horoscope & astrology science * Salary of Lawyers in India Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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