TY - BOOK ID - 77886101 TI - Disrupted Childhoods PY - 2011 SN - 1283864665 0813551013 9780813551012 0813550106 0813550114 9780813550107 9780813550114 0813550106 9780813550107 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Prisoners' families KW - Children of women prisoners KW - Women prisoners' children KW - Women prisoners KW - Enfants de prisonniers KW - Prisonniers KW - États-Unis KW - Famille UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886101 AB - Millions of children in the United States have a parent who is incarcerated and a growing number of these nurturers are mothers. Disrupted Childhoods explores the issues that arise from a mother's confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. Jane A. Siegel offers a perspective that recognizes differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system. Presenting an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned, this book reveals the many challenges they face from the moment such a critical caregiver is arrested to the time she returns home from prison. Based on interviews with nearly seventy youngsters and their mothers conducted at different points of their parent's involvement in the process, the rich qualitative data of Disrupted Childhoods vividly reveals the lived experiences of prisoners' children, telling their stories in their own words. Siegel places the mother's incarceration in context with other aspects of the youths' experiences, including their family life and social worlds, and provides a unique opportunity to hear the voices of a group that has been largely silent until now. ER -