This peer reviewed article refers to the impact of parental imprisonment on children in the USA but can be learned from by authors anywhere.
It looks specifically at the trauma experienced by children of imprisoned parents including key processes such as visits and child care giving. The research utilises a comparison group of similarly disadvantaged, single care-giver families who do not have a parent in prison. The findings show that accounts of child trauma from both the care-giver and child were higher and more likely to be clinical cases amoung those who had experienced parental imprisonment. Looking at processes; visitation was likely to be more problematic and care-giving was more likely to be done by someone other than a biological parent when a parent was imprisoned compared to the other group. Parents' reports of child trauma were most often linked to distressing prison visits thus recommendations around improving visits for children are made. Use your Springer Link log in details to access Parental Incarceration and Child Trauma.
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