Parental Incarceration and Parent-Youth Closeness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this study is to examine the association between parental incarceration and parent-youth closeness.

Background

Despite the established complex repercussions of incarceration for relationships between adults, and the well-known intergenerational consequences of parental incarceration, little is known about how incarceration structures these intergenerational relationships.

Method

In this paper, I use data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,408), a cohort of children followed over a 15-year period, to examine how parental incarceration is associated with relationships between youth and their (incarcerated and non-incarcerated) parents.

Results

Results suggest three conclusions. First, parental incarceration i

SUBMITTER: Turney K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798659 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature