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Impact of Parental Incarceration

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Early Childhood Education Class
Topic: Paternal Incarceration
Prompt:
Step #1: First, read Chapter 4 of the book called “Parental Incarceration and the Family” by Joyce A Arditti. Chapter 4 focuses on Paternal Incarceration.
Step #2: Secondly, read the article in the PDF File titled “Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development” by Amanda Geller, Carey E. Cooper, Irwin Garfinkel, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, and Ronald B. Mincy
Step #3: Third read the website article titled “The Effects of Mass Incarceration on Communities of Color” by Robert D. Crutchfield and Gregory A. Weeks
The link to the web article is located here: https://issues(dot)org/effects-mass-incarceration-communities-color/
Step #4: Next, read the PDF titled “Incarceration and Social Inequality” by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit
NOTE * ON THE PDF YOU ONLY HAVE TO READ PAGES 8 THROUGH PAGE 19 AS THIS IS WHERE THE ARTICLE OF Incarceration and Social Inequality by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit is located.
Step #5: Now, read the web article titled “Where Do We Go from Here? Mass Incarceration and the Struggle for Civil Rights” by Robynn J.A. Cox
The link to the web article above in Step #5 is located here: https://www(dot)epi(dot)org/publication/where-do-we-go-from-here-mass-incarceration-and-the-struggle-for-civil-rights/
Step #6: View the short YouTube video titled “Incarcerated fathers and its affect on children” by danni8824

The link to the YouTube video mentioned above in Step #6 is located here: https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=PmF6Uqkq9BA
Step #7: Finally bases on the Chapter 4 reading, based on the articles you read, based on the PDF articles you read, and based on the YouTube video you watched now answer the following questions in at least 2 pages.
Question #1: Many children have fathers who are incarcerated. Discuss the impact incarceration of fathers has on children.
Question #2: Explore the impact on communities of people of color in the United States for example, since you live in Southern California you might want to focus on communities in the cities of Los Angeles. Once you select a community or communities discuss gender and how the loss of the father may affect female children versus male children
Question #3: Find three separate articles that explore the lives of children with incarcerated fathers. Make sure that they are different articles that the one I posted in the prompt. Once you select your three articles just write a paragraph summary of what each article is about. Make sure to post the link of the three articles in your references.

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Coursework assignments
* Must be a minimum of 2 pages.
* Must be in Times New Roman Font Size 12 with 1-inch margins all around.
• You can asnwer the questions in paragraphs but make sure your paragraphs have a minimum of 5 sentences including your summary of the three articles that you choose.
• Must be in APA 7 format
• Must have at a minimum of 4 two different APA citations from four different sources. For example, one of your citations must be from Chapter 4 of the book of Parental Incarceration and the Family” by Joyce A Arditti. Then for your other three citations you can use any of the other web articles, any of the pdf articles, the YouTube video and even your three articles of your choice. Feel free to add more citations but at least have four citations within your responses.
• Must have a reference page. In this case you must have at least four different references. One of your references must be the book of Parental Incarceration and the Family” from Chapter 4 by Joyce A Arditti. Then you have the web articles, pdf articles, the YouTube video, and your three articles of your choice that you can choose to cite but make sure that you cite the articles and videos that you used to answer any of the questions and add them to your references.
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Notes to the Essay Zoo Writer:
* I uploaded screenshot images of Chapter 4 of the book Parental Incarceration and the Family” by Joyce A Arditti
* Since I could only upload 20 files in the order form and since Chapter 3 consists of 25 pages I was able to upload 20 files in the order form and the remaining pages are located here in the Drop Me Files link below: https://dropmefiles(dot)com/GqvLp
*This is how the book Parental Incarceration and the Family” by Joyce A Arditti should be referenced in the reference list...
Arditti, J. A. (2014). Parental incarceration and the family: Psychological and social effects of imprisonment on children, parents, and caregivers. NYU Press.
* I also uploaded the article mentioned on Step #2 in a PDF File titled “Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development” by Amanda Geller, Carey E. Cooper, Irwin Garfinkel, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, and Ronald B. Mincy (I was not sure if the PDF article uploaded correctly as the when I tried to include it in the order form it kept saying error but I did find this link below with the article same article)
https://www(dot)ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pmc/articles/PMC3703506/
*Lastly, I uploaded the PDF titled “Incarceration and Social Inequality” by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit. (Remember... you do not have to read the entire PDF just pages 8 through 19 the page numbers are located on the bottom left side of the article).
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Thank you for your time

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Parental Incarceration
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Question 1
Children are negatively impacted by the incarceration of their fathers. According to … the lack of father figures for the children while growing has been associated with increased aggression and attention problems. Consequently, they are likely to be involved in criminal activity such as assaults as well as perform poorly in education. Such outcomes are undesirable for a child because they impact their chances of success in future.
Question 2
In Los Angeles, Black men are more likely to be incarcerated than both White and Latino men. The result has been a community that has more single parents especially mothers and according to Younge (2012) the male children usually adopt harmful behaviors that cause them to be jailed like their fathers. Arditti (2014) agrees with such an observation in that most fathers in prison seem to come from a family with a history of criminal activity for generations. The problem also seems to affect male children more than females. In this regard, the male children are more likely to commit crimes and engage in criminal behavior compared to female dependents. As such, it is possible that incarceration of fathers results in vicious cycle of criminal behavior from one generation to the next.
Question 3
Article 1
Martin (2017) begins the article by noting that the families of those incarcerated are usually silent victims. In this regard, they do not have a platform to voice their opinions and the society usually does not acknowledge that they are impacted by the incarceration of one the parents. The article then highlights the scope of the problem by noting that 50 to 75 percent of those incarcerated are parents. Furthermore, 40 percent of the incarcerated parents are usually African American males. Thus, race and gender are an issue in regards to incarceration and parenthood. Martin (2017) then continues to highlight the impacts of incarceration on children. He notes that involvement in criminal behaviors, psychological problems and antisocial behavior, and poor educational achievement are some of the issues. Martin (2017) also adds that parental incarceration...
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