Approximately 1.7 million children have parents who are incarcerated in prison in the United
States, and possibly millions of additional children have a parent incarcerated in jail. Many …

Family researchers have long recognized the utility of incorporating interview data from
multiple family members. Yet, relatively few contemporary scholars utilize such an approach …

Over 2% of US children under the age of 18—more than 1,700,000 children—have a parent
in prison. These children experience very real disadvantages when compared to their peers …

In this chapter, we address a dynamic that lies inextricably at the core of most family systems
around the world—that of the coparenting collaboration operative between the important …

While policy makers have long extolled the benefits of incarceration, criminologists have
expended considerable effort demonstrating the harmful collateral consequences of …

The majority of research on children with incarcerated parents has focused on documenting
main effects and adjustment problems among children and families. Although the focus on …

Parental incarceration is often an adverse childhood experience that has been
characterized as an enduring trauma that involves ongoing and repeated stressors. In this …

Abstract A Family Stress-Proximal Process (FSPP) model is advanced for examining the
effects of parental incarceration on children, which situates parental incarceration as a …

High rates of incarceration in the United States has prompted researchers to study the
impacts of imprisonment on romantic relationships and minor children. We examine the …

We review empirical studies on kinship foster care in the United States. We conceptualize
kinship foster care within the context of Urie Bronfenbrenner's (1994) most recent ecological …