Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children.
Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children.
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曾经被监禁的父母和他们的孩子。
DOI：
10.1007/s13524-018-0677-4
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Smith,Natalie
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作者：
Western,Bruce;Smith,Natalie
监禁对儿童福祉的负面影响往往与以前被监禁的父母的经济不安全有关。然而，研究人员警告说，在多伴侣生育和其他家庭复杂性的情况下，父母监禁的影响可能很小。尽管有这些说法，但很少有研究直接观察到经济不安全或家庭复杂性的全部程度。我们用一个独特的数据集来研究亲子关系，这个数据集包括了刚刚从监狱释放的父母的经济不安全感和家庭复杂性的详细信息。我们发现，稳定的私人住房，而不是收入，与父母和子女之间的密切和定期接触。以前被监禁的父母在多伴侣生育和缺乏支持性家庭关系的情况下较少见到子女。即使我们控制了吸毒和犯罪，估计也会对住房和家庭产生重大影响，而吸毒和犯罪本身与父母接触呈负相关。调查结果指出，物质不安全和家庭关系的复杂性对以前被监禁的父母与子女之间的接触的限制。
The negative effects of incarceration on child well-being are often linked to the economic insecurity of formerly incarcerated parents. Researchers caution, however, that the effects of parental incarceration may be small in the presence of multiple-partner fertility and other family complexity. Despite these claims, few studies have directly observed either economic insecurity or the full extent of family complexity. We study parent-child relationships with a unique data set that includes detailed information about economic insecurity and family complexity among parents just released from prison. We find that stable private housing, more than income, is associated with close and regular contact between parents and children. Formerly incarcerated parents see their children less regularly in contexts of multiple-partner fertility and in the absence of supportive family relationships. Significant housing and family effects are estimated even after we control for drug use and crime, which are themselves negatively related to parental contact. The findings point to the constraints of material insecurity and the complexity of family relationships on the contact between formerly incarcerated parents and their children.