Children Of Incarcerated Parents

Children of incarcerated parents the pennsylvania department of corrections is committed to facilitating positive interactions and outcomes for these fragile and impaired parent child relationships while maintaining ongoing efforts to support and strengthen them. Supporting children and families affected by parental incarceration supporting children and families affected by parental incarceration parental incarceration and the disruption of family relationships can produce negative outcomes for children including poverty poor academic performance aggression depression delinquency and substance abuse. As noted in a comprehensive review of research on children with incarcerated parents the arrest and removal of a mother or father from a childs life forces that child to confront emotional social and economic consequences that may trigger behavior problems poor outcomes in school and a disruption or severance of the relationship with the incarcerated parent that may persist even after the parent is released from prison hairston 2007.
children of incarcerated parents