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 the coping of young children who are most at risk for the adversity and also the most detrimentally impacted. When Are You Coming Home? helps answer questions about how young ones are faring when a parent is incarcerated in jail. Situated within a resilience model of development, the book presents findings related to children's stress, family relationships, health, home environments, and visit experiences through the eyes of the children and families. This humanizing, social justice-oriented approach discusses the paramount need to support children and their families before, during, and after a parent's incarceration while the country simultaneously grapples with strategies of reform and decarceration.

• 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