Paternal Incarceration, Race and Ethnicity, and Maternal Health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although increased attention has been placed on the potential deleterious consequences of paternal incarceration on maternal health, little empirical research has attempted to understand the physiological processes that might underlie this relationship. Moreover, exposure to incarceration and access to resources that shape family incarceration patterns are unequally distributed across racial and ethnic lines, yet few studies utilize analytic frameworks that account for this social reality. Using a within race/ethnicity analytic framework, the present study addresses these gaps by examining relationships between paternal incarceration and telomere length for Black, Latina/o, and White mothers.

Methods

Data were drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing St

SUBMITTER: Nino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10440804 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature