Entwined life events: The effect of parental incarceration timing on children's academic achievement.

ABSTRACT: Parental incarceration has negative effects on children's educational outcomes. Past studies have only analyzed, and therefore only treated as consequential, parental incarceration that occurs during childhood rather than prenatally. Such analyses that emphasize the importance only of events that occur during one's lifetime are common in life course studies. This paper introduces an "entwined life events" perspective, which argues that certain events are so consequential to multiple persons' lives that they should be analyzed as events within multiple independent life courses; parental incarceration, whenever it occurs, is entwined across and shapes both parents' and children's lives. Drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

SUBMITTER: Fox MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12035912 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature