The Incarcerated Parent
The Incarcerated Parent:
Empowering Family Connections through Parent Education
Presented by Shauna Staranko, MS ParentWISE Program of Family Services of Western PA
Role
Shauna Staranko
Parent and Community Educator Family Therapist Parenting Instructor at Westmoreland County Prison
Incarceration in the United States
"The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons or jails -- a 500% increase over the past thirty years."
The majority of prisoners are parents
3.6 million parents are under some form of corrections supervision
Incarceration in the United States
2.8 million children have an incarcerated parent
10 million children have had an incarcerated parent sometime in their lives
The Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Center on the States. (2010)
1 in 14 children have lived with a parent who was incarcerated at some point after the child's birth (Child Trends,
2015)
2 in every 100 children have a parent in state or federal prison (Mumola, 2000)
Incarceration in the United States
92% of incarcerated parents are male and 8% are female
90% of children with an incarcerated father live with their
mother
Foster
Children with an incarcerated mother:
Dad
28% live with dad
58% live with kin (grandparent, aunt, etc)
4% are in foster care
Kin
Parents who maintain connections during incarceration experience significantly greater success and less recidivism when paroled
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