Loving through bars : children with parents in prison

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Title:

Author:

Martone, Cynthia, 1956-

ISBN:

9781891661488

Personal Author:

Martone, Cynthia, 1956-

Publication Information:

Santa Monica, CA : Santa Monica Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

204 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Introduction -- A Child in a Cell without Bars -- My Little Queen, My Little Princess -- For the Man (or Woman) Is the Product of the Child -- My Mom's at College -- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts about It -- Sins of the Father --Through the Eyes of Blue --The Research.

Subject Term:

Children of prisoners -- United States.

Prisoners -- United States -- Family relationships.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ipg051/2004027524.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ipg051/2004027524.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027524.html

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Summary

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.