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| Parental incarceration can lead to negative
impacts on children.
How many children
have incarcerated parents?
The number of children with one or
both parents in prison is sobering:
- In 1999 an estimated 721,500 State
and Federal prisoners were parents to 1,498,800 children under
age 18.
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- The number of minor children in
the U.S. who have experienced parental incarceration is unknown,
but estimated by the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
to be at least 10 million.
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- About three quarters of all female
prisoners and two thirds of all male prisoners are parents.
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- A significant, but unknown,
proportion of the children of incarcerated mothers also have an
incarcerated father.
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For additional information
contact:
Lynna J. Lawson, 4-H Youth Specialist
1 N. Washington Street, Farmington, Missouri 63640
Phone: 573-756-4539 Fax: 573-756-0412
Email: lawsonl@missouri.edu
Director of the Family and
Community Resource Program
Tammy Gillespie, 573-882-3316; gillespiet@missouri.edu
The project evaluators provided
the research and design for this web display:
Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, dunne@missouri.edu and J. Gordon Arbuckle.
Video footage by William Helvey, Ag. & Extension Information
Center, Lincoln University, and
Bob Nash, Mineral Area TCRC Coordinator. Photography by Tammy
Gillespie, Lynna Lawson,
Rick Secoy, and Rob Wilkerson. Graphics and web development by Jeanne Bintzer.
This program is supported by
the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension Outreach
Development Fund and the Children,
Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Initiative.
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