Charts: Kids Are Paying the Price for America’s Prison Binge [MotherJones.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/26/1412:00 PM

As students return to the classroom this fall, one large group of children will be more likely than their peers to suffer learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, behavioral problems, chronic school absence, and a host of other health concerns. These are the 2.7 million US children coping with the stress of parental incarceration.

In a new study, University of California, Irvine sociologist Kristin Turney analyzes data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to determine the mental and physical health effects of having a parent in jail or prison. The results are striking.

[For more of this story, written by Katie Rose Quandt, go to http://www.motherjones.com/moj...ntal-physical-health]

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