Case Study Of Incarcerated Parents

Children suffer significantly until someone decides to protect them. The government allocates funds to establish the foster care system and that system advances to enforce rights for children. When the right to remove children from an abusive situation first originated, the foster care system established a separation procedure for children from their abusive homes. This act of removing children from their families brought about psychological issues and trauma. Throughout earlier years, the foster care system adjusted their program according to the rules and regulations established to provide for the needs of children. However, problems keep appearing elsewhere. These children endure the brunt of every new philosophy in behavioral health management. Often, the biological parents will be left out of the solution. The foster care system develops services to train foster families in caring for foster children and behavioral issues. For some reason, the foster care system believes improvement simpler to reform the children and makes a trivial attempt of the reformation with family. The foster care system needs to try to achieve bonds within the biological family instead of the sole reliability on removal of children to be an adequate answer. The foster care system’s obligation should be to develop a training system for the rehabilitation of families and offer support to achieve the greatest outcome in child rearing. Foster care needs to adapt to supporting families emotionally,

Although the federal government controls the funding that will enhance the family relationship by supplying services, this unfortunately does not always rectify the family situation. If the system in place doesn’t work and the parent isn’t ready to have the child returned, this will leave a negative impact on the parent-child relationship. The parent may become frustrated and resort to behaviors such as substance abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse jeopardizing the parent-child relationship. As stated in Foster Care at issue, by Debra Bloom, family reunification is less likely to occur when parents are involved in the correctional system. Reporting that 16 % of mothers with children in foster care are arrested within 18 months, with the arrest occurring after the child has been placed in foster care. Suggesting that child welfare look beyond the system when developing potential outcomes.

The U.S. Census reported that 1.6 million individuals under the age of 18 were arrested in 2010, a substantial increase from previous years (OJJDP, 2012; US Census Bureau, 2012). Of those individuals detained, over nine percent were convicted as juveniles and entered into a juvenile detention facility (Risler, 2009). Approximately 500,000 children are currently in the foster care system, while almost 300,000 have medical problems, have neurological impairs, and developmental delays (Earls, 2013). In addition, they were all exposed to some degree of critical abuse or neglect, leaving almost 80 percent of those children with serious emotional difficulties (Earls, 2013). As a result of various complications, emotional disturbances, and

Incarceration, a topic of controversy, has received much attention in both academic and political arenas. Policy changes in recent years have influenced incarceration rates and, in turn, affected families and children in the U.S. (Hagan & Coleman, 2001; Visher & Travis, 2003; “Pew Charitable Trusts”, 2010; Arditti, Lamburt-Shute, & Joest, 2003). Policies, such as “tough on crime” and “war on drugs”, have contributed to not only a steady rise in incarceration rates and over crowding of correctional facilities, but also endorsed the disproportionate number of detainees from underrepresented ethnic populations (Hagan & Coleman, 2001; “Pew Charitable Trusts”, 2010). Hence, the vast majority of children who are affected by having an incarcerated parent are of underrepresented ethnic groups (“Bureau of Justice”, 2010).

These children need a lot of attention and care so that they may live as normal a life as possible and learn to overcome the obstacles their lives will be presented with, goals such as these are hard to obtain with five to eight children in a home. With such large numbers it is not surprising that there is a median of 10.3 percent of children who reentered the foster care system within 12 months of discharge in the year 2000 (Dept of Health).

The research question for this article would be in what ways do mothers cope with the separation of their children due to incarceration? Over the years the number of incarcerated mothers between the age of 25 and 34 has dramatically increased. These mothers are likely to be single, poor, a racial minority and have at least two kids. The study conducted interviewed 74 mothers before the trail and during incarceration to identity coping strategies that were used to deal with the separation of their child or children. The results from the interview and previous research studies showed seventh techniques used in how mothers would learn to cope with the separation. First, being a “good mother” using motherhood as a central identity to comfort their

The results of this study found that MI is an effective intervention method for those with a drinking problem. The results found that before intervention occurred (pretreatment), the control group drank 4.37 drinks per day and the treatment group drank 4.65 drinks per day. During the posttest, the control group drank 3.77 drinks per day and the treatment group drank 1.95 drinks per day (Beckham, 2007). According to Beckham (2007), “Consistent with the predictions, drinkers who participated in the study significantly decreased the average number of drinks per day” (p. 107).

Children with incarcerated parents have lived an uneasy life. Children have watched their parents get in trouble with the law and watch them be handcuffed and taken away for arrest. Children struggle physically, mentally and emotionally when a parent is displaced away from the home. Children have many emotions when they see their parent going away with a police officer. Children are taught today, the police officers are there to help you but also deal with people that get in trouble and when you parent is taken away from you, you are aware that something bad has happened. As learned throughout research many things become an issue in the behavior of a child.

Literacy has been proven to be a crucial part of a child’s development, especially in early childhood when books and bedtime stories solidify the natural course of their growth (Boyd, Johnson, & Bee, 2015). As children are like sponges, being exposed to a broad vocabulary bank benefits them greatly when they start learning not only verbal and spoken communication but when they interact socially as well (Boyd, Johnson, & Bee, 2015). For children whose mothers are currently incarcerated, it can be difficult to maintain a decent level of exposure to literature. In addition, female inmates experienced significant distress from not having regular contacts with their children (McPhail, 2018). The Mother/Child Read Aloud program, based in New Brunswick and operated by the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saint

I learned to be a leader in my house at an early age because I desire to make my family and my life better by successfully continuing my education and finishing a four year university. More importantly, the desire to help my brother Carlos to get a better treatment for his condition, cerebral palsy. Today I contribute to Carlos’s everyday care. In fact, I sometimes shower, dress, feed, entertain and help in giving him therapy for his body palsy.

This study explores patterns of educational engagement among formerly incarcerated young men. Among the three individuals that where interview prior to attending any transitional housing 100% of the interviewees where completing their high school diploma/ GED within the Los Angeles area. The process reflected below, looks at the question, post college admissions, what are some of the acclimation challenges that minority males who were previously former juvenile offender face when trying to obtain a degree in higher education? The emerging themes derived were:

One of the strengths of this article is its foundation in empirical research. Loaded with citations, the article reviews the literature of attachment theory accurately but in a concise manner. In particular, the authors cited an alarming statistic that “58% of confined women did not see their children during their entire incarceration” (376). Citing similar research to that which was presented in the “Insights from Extremes” section early in Chapter 4: Attachment: Forming Close Relationships, separating mothers and infants within hours of birth can negatively affect attachment outcomes. Specifically, mothers said “they did not feel a ‘mother connection’ to children taken from their care at early ages” (377). Authors cited interviews with women in prison who said being “separated from children of any age was the most traumatic aspect of incarceration” (376). This also alludes to the concept mentioned in lecture that a mutual attachment, as opposed to a one-way attachment, is formed between mothers and infants. Clearly, this study was firmly based in empirical research. Another strength of this study that stood out to me was the high interrater reliability (reaching 100% for video coding of infant attachment styles) (381). This statistic spoke not only to the strength of their training, operational definitions, and coding methods but also to the attention to detail of the researchers.

Parental criminality is considered as one of the risk factors behind the development of criminality in children and adolescents (Nijhof, 2009).These children have less educational success and struggle to build positive relationships with others. They tend to have poor social skills, attitudes and seem to be at a disadvantaged in society (Turanovic, 2012). Efforts have been made by researchers using qualitative studies in order to create an understanding behind intergenerational criminal behavior and get a closer look at their offending history. Findings suggest that the environment that children are raised in contributes substantially to parent and child criminal behavior particularly in neighbors of low economic status, where social strain

As most parents know, raising a child can be a rewarding, as well as an expensive, undertaking. Often, both parents bear the financial responsibility of providing for their children, and their needs. When children do not live with one or both of their parents, family law court judges in Massachusetts, and elsewhere, may order child support awards. Generally, the purpose of these payments is to ensure that custodial parents, as well as non-custodial parents, fulfill their financial obligations as parents.

Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children by Daniel A Hughes