ArticlePediatrics2024
Parental Legal System Involvement, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Suicide Risk.
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- Positive Childhood Experiences, Suicide Cognitions, Subjective Happiness, and Mental Well-Being in Young Adults: A Half-Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Parental incarceration and psychiatric disorders, suicidal behavior, risk-taking, and substance misuse events in offspring: A longitudinal within-individual study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Short-Term Consequences of Parents' Criminal Legal System Involvement for Children's Academic Performance.Children and youth services review · 2026Article
- Psychological flexibility as a mediating mechanism linking adverse and positive childhood experiences to suicidal thoughts in emerging adults.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Parental violent offending and offspring suicidal behavior: a nationwide register-based study.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Effects of Childhood Police Contact on Adolescent Suicidality: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- The land cover paradox: Characteristics of blue- and green spaces within and beyond high-risk suicide clusters.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Positive Childhood Experiences Support Cognition and Counteract Behavior and Emotion Problems During Early Adolescence.Academic pediatricsArticle
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objectivesTo examine whether adverse parental legal system involvement (incarceration, arrest) was associated with suicide risk, accounting for other adverse childhood experiences, and whether there was a moderating relationship between positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and parental legal system involvement in suicide risk.
methodsThis cross-sectional study used 2-year follow-up data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study when children were age 11 to 12 years. Outcomes were lifetime suicidal ideation, attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Exposures were parent incarceration or arrest. We used generalized linear models to estimate the relative risk of suicide outcomes from adverse parent legal involvement and whether there was an interaction between parent legal system involvement and PCE count, controlling for adverse childhood experiences and demographic factors.
resultsAmong our sample (n = 10 532;), 687 children (6.5%) reported parent incarceration and 1265 (12.0%) reported parent arrest. Suicidal ideation was the most frequent risk outcome (n = 490; 4.7%). Children whose parents had been incarcerated had a relative risk of suicidal ideation of 1.74 (95% CI: 1.32-2.31). Children whose parents had been arrested had a relative risk of suicidal ideation of 1.89 (95% CI: 1.53-2.37) and a relative risk of suicide attempt of 2.69 (95% CI: 1.7-4.25). Parental incarceration/arrest were not associated with NSSI. PCEs were associated with reduced relative risk of suicidal ideation and NSSI, though there was no significant interaction between PCEs and adverse parent legal system involvement exposures.
conclusionsParental legal system involvement may negatively affect child mental health. Strengthening PCEs in childhood may mitigate suicide-related risks.
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