To be sad that this has to exist but pleased that it does

[sashh]

Sesame St has a whole series of short films about having a parent in prison. It includes what happens on visits, how you feel when mum/dad is away.

www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration

www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration

Very sad but if it helps some kids then its needed.

YANBU

I think your reaction is the most reasonable reaction possible. You're not trying to sweep the thing under the carpet by pretending that children won't go through this if the site comes down; nor are you saying that children don't need support when a parent receives a custodial sentence.

Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity, after some stupid threads I've seen this week.

YANBU what a great but very sad idea , many children have parents in prison and while it isn't ideal as these people have commited a crime these children still love their parents. well done seasame street,

Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity, after some stupid threads I've seen this week

this is the first thread i have seen about this has there been a few ?

There isn't enough support for children whose parents are in prison,or are sectioned (held under the MH Act).

It is getting better, but i would like for a CAF to be put in place for all children going through this.

Some families cope well, including the children, have no support, what so ever.

My DH was sectioned whilst having cancerous brain tumours (he later died), there was no help available at the time. This happened as MIND was gather evidence that this was a gap that needed filling, in services.

Just after, a support system was started, mainly by charities, soit was and stillis patchy, the same for those in prison.

The budget cuts, once again, have had a big effecton provision.

Many child go into temporary Foster Care whilst a parent is in prison. There is a lot going on for them,that they need help to process.

You can imagine how the children feel when it is an "aborrant" crime that the parent has committed and is then hated in and outside of the family.

Sorry,my space bar is sticking.

mrsjay Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity, after some stupid threads I've seen this week

Not this issue specifically, but all over the internet, people have been annoying me on various subjects, by vocally holding attitudes that are precisely the opposite of the OP's here.

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world (50% higher than Russia which is the next highest). There'll be some neighbourhoods where nearly everyone knows someone in prison.

queenstromba- any idea why?

A lot of it is down to the war on drugs - they have much tougher sentencing on drug offences there which means that about a third of the prison population are there because of drugs. There's also the three strike rule which means that you get 25 years for a third offense even if they were all relatively minor.

I think it probably also has a lot to do with the fact that for a large proportion of the population the US is essentially a third world country. They have a very large underclass who have very little in the way of prospects. If you're born in the ghetto in the US you have much less chance of making it out than if you're born in a crappy area in the UK and you have the choice between working poorly paid menial jobs or partaking in illegal activities.

Prisons are privatized in the US which means money is made by incarcerating vast numbers. It's a business, short and simple. A judge was recently found guilty of deliberately imprisoning without due cause minors in an institute he had invested in. Very grim.

About one in a hundred American adults are currently in prison - note, not simply "one in a hundred have been in prison at some point in their life" but actually in prison right now. Roughly half of these are for drug offences.