ArticleDemography2011
Paternal incarceration and support for children in fragile families.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Parental Incarceration, Development, and Well-Being: A Developmental Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Children's antisocial behavior, mental health, drug use, and educational performance after parental incarceration: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2012Pooled it
- Does paternal criminal legal system involvement increase children's risk of child protective services contact? Evidence from Wisconsin linked administrative data.Child abuse & neglect · 2026Article
- Developing and testing a system alignment approach to address homelessness among black fathers in Atlanta, GA.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Health consequences of paternal incarceration using a future-treated control group.Health & justice · 2026Article
- Development and pilot testing of a risk assessment checklist for children of incarcerated parents in Hong Kong.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Do local geographic characteristics moderate the association between familial incarceration and adolescent depression and anxiety?BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The direct financial costs of having a family member incarcerated.Science advances · 2025Article
- "They Handcuffed Him, Shackled Him, all of that-in Front of Her": Family Experiences and Considerations Upon Arrest of a Parent.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Delinquency: Role of Father Engagement and Early Child Behavior Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- "It's two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb": dual debt in the child support and criminal legal systems.Law & society review · 2024Article
- The Distribution of Carceral Harm: County-Level Jail Incarceration and Mortality by Race, Sex, and Age.Demography · 2024Article
- Community and household-level incarceration and its association with mental health in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of families.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Partner incarceration, maternal substance use, and the mediating role of social support: A longitudinal analysis using the future of families and child wellbeing study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Love after lockup: examining the role of marriage, social status, and financial stress among formerly incarcerated individuals.Health & justice · 2024Article
- Adult Children of the Prison Boom: Family Troubles and the Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact.Demography · 2024Article
- Paternal Incarceration, Race and Ethnicity, and Maternal Health.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Family reunification after fathers are released from prison: Perspectives on children's adjustment.Family relations · 2023Article
- The intergenerational effects of paternal incarceration on children's social and psychological well-being from early childhood to adolescence.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- The Association between Perpetuation of Intimate Partner Violence and Family Support on Couples with an Incarcerated Partner.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and family relationships. Because most men in jail and prison are fathers, a large number of children may be placed at considerable risk by policies of incarceration. This article examines one dimension of the economic risk faced by children of incarcerated fathers: the reduction in the financial support that they receive. We use a population-based sample of urban children to examine the effects of incarceration on this support. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal regressions indicate that formerly incarcerated men are less likely to contribute to their families, and those who do contribute provide significantly less. The negative effects of incarceration on fathers' financial support are due not only to the low earnings of formerly incarcerated men but also to their increased likelihood to live apart from their children. Men contribute far less through child support (formal or informal) than they do when they share their earnings within their household, suggesting that the destabilizing effects of incarceration on family relationships place children at significant economic disadvantage.
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