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Collateral Damage: Examining The Impact Of Maternal Incarceration On The Social, Emotional, Behavioral And Educational Functioning Of Children : Released Mothers' Perspectives, Roberta Treadway Gaston
Collateral Damage: Examining The Impact Of Maternal Incarceration On The Social, Emotional, Behavioral And Educational Functioning Of Children : Released Mothers' Perspectives, Roberta Treadway Gaston
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The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that women continue to be incarcerated at record numbers. The majority of these women are mothers to children under the age of 18. Consequently more and more children are being negatively effected as a result of this forced separation from their mothers. The research on children with an incarcerated mother documents the adverse impact on the well-being of the children left behind. The children experience a range of difficulties including emotional and psychological difficulties, educational problems and behavioral difficulties. Children who have a mother in prison or jail have been labeled as …