Author: Sandra Cain
Publisher: A & C Black
ISBN: 9780713650945
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Book Description
Follows two young boys as they visit their dad in prison for the first time and explains the emotions they feel and the situations they encounter during their visit.
Author: Melissa Higgins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484683420
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
Author: Jackie Walter
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781445161327
Category : Children of prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Book Description
A simple, sensitively written exploration of having a parent in prison. Dad's gone away for a while, but I don't understand why. I miss him. Children with a parent in prison often feel isolated, ashamed - unable to talk about their situation because they are scared of being bullied and judged. They often feel that they are to blame and having a parent in prison marks them as an outcast.
Author: Lynne Haney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520297253
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Book Description
Introduction : From deadbeat to deadbroke -- Making men pay -- The debt of imprisonment -- Punishing parents, creating criminals -- The imprisonment of debt -- The good, the bad, and the dead broke -- Cyclical parenting -- Conclusion : Reforming debt, reimagining fatherhood -- Appendix : about the research.
Author: Latif Bossman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983556036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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This book is a memoir charting the journey of an incarcerated African American father faced with the dilemma of parenting from prison. Coping with the loss of his freedom and struggling to find ways to continue to communicate with his children, provide for them financially, manage stress, provide emotional support, and dealing with the addition of new children. Hundreds of miles away from his children, family and friends, removed from a life of so-called normalcy to one filled with so much uncertainty. Still faced with issues like abandonment, acceptance and visitation are other struggles he must also face in this new world as an incarcerated father. Through all that was a struggle became strength. With an undying love for his children, his energy was focused in continuing to fulfill his duties as a father. With the help of family, friends, community and a desire to truly be a better father, he was able to remain a staple in the fabric of his children's lives until his release from incarceration.
Author: James Ryle
Publisher: Truthworks
ISBN: 9780982614402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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A compelling true story of one man's personal journey from abandonment to love, from hopelessness to faith, and from incarceration to freedom.
Author: Martha Whitmore Hickman
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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When Andy's father is sent to prison for robbery and the family moves to be near him, Andy is afraid of what the kids at his new school will think.
Author: Cynthia Martone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Provides a close-up examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague the children of prisoners, in a collection of personal, anecdotal accounts that chronicle their attempts to cope with the unique challenges in their lives.
Author: Sylvia A. Harvey
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568588828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Book Description
From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up. In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky, where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women, many of whom are white, one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi, a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close. Through these stories, Harvey reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families -- from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to astronomical charges for brief phone calls. The Shadow System is an eye-opening account of the way incarceration has impacted generations of American families; it delivers a galvanizing clarion call to fix this broken system.
Author: Patrick Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990341857
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Louis is a fourth grader who is moving into his grandmother's house and is starting his first day at a new school. Louis' father is absent from his life because he is in prison. Louis' denial and disappointment in his father's absence is displayed by his series of imaginative lies about his father's whereabouts. Louis quickly learns he can only keep the lies going for so long and is forced to face the truth.
