How to Be a Better Mum in Jail
Listen to the BBC news report on “How to be a better mum in jail” featuring an interview with Prof. Rebecca Shlafer about her doula project with incarcerated pregnant women…. Read more »
Encouraging Responsible Fatherhood
A new report from the Urban Institute summarizes 6 programs for fathers with a history of incarceration. The following organizations and programs were included in the report: Kanawha Institute for Social… Read more »
Incarcerated Parent-Child Visit Information from the Urban Institute
The Urban Institute just released a white paper focusing on parent-child visitation when parents are in jail or prison. “Research on the effectiveness of different types of visits is limited,… Read more »
New study on attachment in children with incarcerated fathers
My recent Ph.D. graduates (Drs. Cynthia Burnson, Lindsay Weymouth, and Hilary Runion) and I just published a new study on attachment in young children with incarcerated fathers. We rated young children’s attachment… Read more »
US News & World Report: Parents in Prison
http://health.usnews.com/wellness/family/articles/2017-01-19/parent-in-prison-how-to-protect-the-well-being-of-the-child
Resilience in Children with Incarcerated Parents
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to investigating factors that negatively affect children’s outcomes. This is with good cause. Gaining information about the different risks and adverse experiences that threaten children’s… Read more »
‘I have rights too:’ The Importance of youth voice among children of incarcerated parents
Children and adolescents of incarcerated parents face many barriers. The loss of a parent to the criminal justice system, even temporarily, can often be a hard adjustment. While it may… Read more »
Parental Incarceration: A Culmination of Risks and Their Unequal Outcomes for Children
Many children of incarcerated parents are exposed to a pile-up of risk factors that are mainly out of their control. The culmination can lead to internalizing and externalizing behaviors that… Read more »
Communicating Research to Inform Practices and Policies on Incarceration
In the United States, more than 5 million children have experienced a co-resident parent leaving for jail or prison. After attending the National Council on Family Relations 2016 Conference in… Read more »
The Rights of Incarcerated Parents
Over the past year, the number of people incarcerated in Wisconsin has increased to over 22,000. More than half of incarcerated individuals in the state have children. I recently had… Read more »