Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison - Hardcover

Martone, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891661485 ISBN 13: 9781891661488

Publisher: Santa Monica Press, 2005

Synopsis

An estimated 2.3 million children in the United States have a parent in prison-children whose lives are filled with a unique kind of instability and uncertainty.

These children are themselves victims of their parents' crimes, members of a neglected segment of our population who are potentially damaged by stigma and shame and who are at risk of being pulled into a vicious cycle of future criminality and deviant social behavior. Such children are child prisoners-kids who must learn to understand living and loving through bars.

In Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison, Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of these unfortunate kids, presenting their particular plights through a series of stories.

Among the people readers will meet are a little girl who chats with murderers at Attica Prison while visiting her father, the recently released prisoner who has seven children by five different mothers, and the second-grader whose dad regularly calls him from jail and encourages him to put a pillow over his mother's head at night in order to kill her.

Written by an experienced public school administrator-Martone has been awarded the Outstanding Educator Award for the State of New York-this examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague children of prisoners chronicles their attempts to cope and presents a possible starting place for societal response.

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Synopsis

Children who have parents in prison are themselves victims of their parents' crimes, members of a neglected segment of our population who are potentially damaged by stigma and shame and who are at risk of being pulled into a vicious cycle of future criminality and deviant social behaviour. Such children are child prisoners - kids who must learn to understand living and loving through bars. Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of these unfortunate kids, presenting their particular plights through a series of stories. Among the children are a little girl who chats with murderers at Attica Prison while visiting her father, the kindergarten child who saw her mother taken away by the police to serve a ten-year sentence, and the little boy whose dad calls him from jail and tells him to put a pillow over his mother's head at night in order to kill her. This examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague children of prisoners chronicles their attempts to cope and presents a possible starting place for societal response.

About this edition

• Publisher: Santa Monica Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1891661485
• ISBN 13: 9781891661488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208