Effects of Parent's Incarceration on Children

As children of imprisoned parents, today has a huge negative impact on young people. As a young child, many people think parents are role models. People they trust, those who protect them, and people who lead them through their lives. For most young people with imprisoned parents, this means that there is no splendid example of their lives. If there are no parents when you are a child there are countless negative consequences and possible impacts. According to statistics, one out of five children in 5 people are seeing parents arrested.

The social welfare program identified for the purposes of this article is a child center for imprisoned parents. The social problem that it is aimed to address is the impact of parent imprisonment on imprisoned children and their families. That target population, children and families are imprisoned. In this article we will explore how to provide the service and its funding sources. Furthermore, I will try to understand the role of social workers and social work experts in the program.

How much parent imprisonment affects your child can be measured by statistics showing the number of children in prison or the number of people in prison. Of the white children in 1980, only 0.4% had imprisoned parents, by 2008 the number increased to 1.75%. The sentences of Latin children's parents are about twice as large as in 2008. By 2008, 3.5% of the children were trapped by their parents. Of the African American children, 1.2 million parents (about 11%) were imprisoned in 2008 (Figure 4).

A quarter of the black children born in the era of mass imprisonment have parents in jail which will limit their parents' average income to 40% of their lifetime. The cycle of imprisonment effectively puts people in the feedback loop that are costly at all stages, including arrest, litigation costs, fine, parole release, unemployment, working hours, eviction, and almost impossible to eliminate poverty. But even people who are not jailed will pay for imprisonment. Visit fee (including grace time and loss amount) to spouse's prison, exaggerated advice, excessive phone fee, time loss by travel, court schedule and meeting, and legal fees