Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 7 (April-1 2021) – 521 articles
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In the United States, millions of children experience of having a parent incarcerated. Research details that parental incarceration is connected poorer health. However, parental incarceration is not experienced in isolation. Rather, children who experience parental incarceration also experience a variety of co-occurring adversities in childhood. The findings from this study showed that children who have had a parent incarcerated also experience multiple forms of childhood adversity. While children who have had a parent incarcerated are in worse health than those who do not, this association was largely attenuated when incarceration-exposed children were compared to groups of children exposed to a varying degree of alternative adversities. Accordingly, intervention and prevention efforts targeting parental incarceration should focus on co-occurring family stressors and child adversities.
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