When Are You Coming Home?: How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail

by Julie Poehlmann, Hilary Cuthrell, Luke Muentner

As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent. The vast majority of incarceration occurs in locally operated jails and disproportionately impacts families of color, those experiencing poverty, and rural households. However, we are only beginning to understand the various ways in which children cope with the incarceration of a parent - particularly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978825714
• ISBN13: 9781978825710
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher