Parental incarceration can be worse for a child than divorce or death of a parent [PsyPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/21/144:00 AM

With more than 2 million people behind bars, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This mass incarceration has serious implications for not only the inmates, but their children, finds a new University of California-Irvine study. The study found significant health problems, including behavioral issues, in children of incarcerated parents and also that, for some types of health outcomes, parental incarceration can be more detrimental to a child’s well-being than divorce or the death of a parent.

[For more of this story go to http://www.psypost.org/2014/08...e-death-parent-27392]

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