Study reveals effect of men’s incarceration on the mother of their children
Study reveals effect of men’s incarceration on the mother of their children
- March 7, 2013
- Research by Kirstin Turney, sociology assistant professor, is featured in HealthCanal.com March 7, 2013
From HealthCanal.com:
The research, titled “Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with Children
by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” appeared in February in the online American Sociological
Review. Co-authors of the paper were Jason Schnittker of the University of Pennsylvania
and Kirstin Turney of the University of California, Irvine. “When we think about the
men who spend time behind bars, a whole host of images spring to mind, few of which
are positive, and almost none of which involve their families,” notes Wildeman. “And
when their families do come to mind, moreover, the images are almost uniformly negative:
a mother disappointed in her wayward son; a lover relieved to be rid a partner who
has long struggled with addiction and been prone to violence; a daughter who learned
of her father’s incarceration weeks after the fact because the ties between them have
grown weak as his broken promises mount.”
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