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Thursday, October 29th, 2015

One in 14 Children in U.S. Has Had a Parent in Jail or Prison

Author:     Kali Holloway
Source:     Alternet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     October 27, 2015
 Link: One in 14 Children in U.S. Has Had a Parent in Jail or Prison
Stephan:  
The headline says it all. One in 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent in prison -- 5 million children total. Add to that 17 million with hunger issues and 2.5 million homeless, as well as high child mortality rates, particularly in Red value states, and America's claim to be family centered is shown to be pious hypocritical polemical manure.
Parents Behind Bars   the full report is available by clicking on this link.
 

Parents behin barsAmong the pernicious collateral damage of mass incarceration is the devastation it causes in the lives of children who lose parents to prison. A new study from research firm Child Trends finds that the problem has reached troubling proportions, with one out of every 14 American children having one parent who is currently, or has previously been incarcerated. The numbers are a direct consequence of our system of over-incarceration;, America jails more of its citizens than any other country on Earth, in both raw numbers and by population percentage.

According to a Child Trends report released this morning, more than five million American children—or 7 percent of all of the country’s youth—has had a parent who lives with them spend time in prison or jail. The vast majority of those incarcerated parents, a staggering 99 percent, are fathers.

For black children, parental incarceration rates are even more troubling. The new study finds that one out of every nine black children under the age of 18 has a parent who is, or has been, in prison or jail. Other children disproportionately affected include […]

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