Variation in Cumulative Childhood Risks of Parental Imprisonment and Foster Care Removal by State and Race/Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT: The racialized nature of state intervention into family life has increasingly called attention to the impact of parental incarceration and foster care placement on the wellbeing of children across the United States. Yet little is known about how these interventions collectively operate at a macro-level in the lives of children. This study estimates the cumulative childhood risks of experiencing parental imprisonment or foster care placement for White, Black, and Hispanic children across fourteen states. Drawing on policy regime theory, I identify subnational family intervention regimes based on the relative risks of 'right' prison-driven and 'left' welfare-driven intervention, examining how these regimes vary across both states and racial/ethnic subgroups. In documenting variation in famil

SUBMITTER: Luck AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10512584 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature