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When Are You Coming Home? answers questions about how young children cope when parents go to jail. Told through the real stories of children, caregivers, and parents navigating parental incarceration, this book delves into the nuances that comprise children’s well-being and family relationships. In doing so, it calls out contextual vulnerabilities while emphasizing resilience processes that shape how children make sense of being separated from parents and await their likely reunification.
List of contents
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
About the author
HILARY CUTHRELL, PhD, currently serves as a correctional programs specialist at the National Institute of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons. She manages The Family Strengthening Project—a national project specifically focused on children of incarcerated parents in both local and state correctional facilities. She recently completed a post-doctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also served as an adjunct faculty member at Indiana State University. She has been published in a number of journals but this will be her first book.
LUKE MUENTNER, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Department of Pediatrics. His research investigates the consequences of parental incarceration and reentry for children; his work has been published in numerous criminology, developmental, and social work journals including Crime & Delinquency, Developmental Psychobiology, and Family Relations.
JULIE POEHLMANN, PhD is the Dorothy A. O’Brien Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has served as a professor in the human development and family studies department (HDFS) for the past 20 years. In addition to authoring 75 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, she is the editor of Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents: Implications for Policy and Intervention and a coeditor of Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents.
