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    When Are You Coming Home?
    How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail

    Hilary Cuthrell (Author), Luke Muentner (Author), Julie Poehlmann (Author)

    9781978825703

    Paperback / softback, published 17 March 2023

    228 pages, 9 bw, 3 color illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg

    "When Are You Coming Home? presents scientific evidence in an accessible format to a broad audience. The case studies are thought-provoking, and the data adds significantly to the literature."

    — Beth Gifford, associate public policy research professor, Duke University

    "When Are You Coming Home? illuminates some of the reasons or pathways through which parental incarceration influences children. The research base is sound and accessible; there is a lot to like about this book."

    — Holly Foster, professor of sociology and chancellor EDGES fellow, Texas A&M University

    As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent. The vast majority of incarceration occurs in locally operated jails and disproportionately impacts families of color, those experiencing poverty, and rural households. However, we are only beginning to understand the various ways in which children cope with the incarceration of a parent – particularly the coping of young children who are most at risk for the adversity and also the most detrimentally impacted. When Are You Coming Home?  helps answer questions about how young ones are faring when a parent is incarcerated in jail. Situated within a resilience model of development, the book presents findings related to children's stress, family relationships, health, home environments, and visit experiences through the eyes of the children and families. This humanizing, social justice-oriented approach discusses the paramount need to support children and their families before, during, and after a parent's incarceration while the country simultaneously grapples with strategies of reform and decarceration.
     

    Foreword
    Preface

    1 A National Tragedy: Introduction to Children
    with Incarcerated Parents

    2 "Is Daddy Getting Taken Away?": Parental Arrest
    and Family Separation

    3 "Look, It's My Family Together!": Family Relationships
    during Parental Incarceration

    4"We're Still Working on It": Children's Health
    and Development

    5 "Just Temporary": Caregiving and Children's
    Home Environments

    6 "It Is So Good to Hug You!": Visiting and Other
    Forms of Parent-Child Contact

    7 "Da-Da Gonna Play with Me Soon!": Reintegration
    for Incarcerated Parents

    8 Opportunities for Growth: Resilience and Its
    Implications for Intervention and Policy

    Appendix A: Study Methods
    Appendix B: Study Measures
    Acknowledgments
    Glossary
    References
    Notes on Contributors
    Index
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