How many kids have parents behind bars?
Some 2.7 million American kids have parents that are behind bars, according to a new Pew Charitable Trusts study.
How many kids have parents behind bars?
The Pew Charitable Trusts today released an exhaustive study that puts a different type of price tag on incarceration.
With an estimated 2.3 million Americans behind bars, the folks at Pew tried to determine how serving time impacts the ability of future ex-cons to earn a living. The numbers are sobering, but not entirely surprising: Pew says men whose resumes list jail or prison under "Recent work experience" can expect to earn 40 percent less anually than those who haven't been locked up. By age 48, the average male ex-con will earn $179,000 less than his law-abiding counterparts, the study claims.
The study is packed with other interesting income-related figures, but it also includes a stat that is utterly jaw-dropping: 2.7 million children in this country have parents behind bars. Break that figure down, Pew says, and you find that 1 in every 28 children have a mom or dad who is doing time. Twenty-five years ago, 1 in every 125 children had a parent that was incarcerated. What the hell happened?
Click here to read more of Pew's study.
that is the 64 thousand$ question isn,t i know of for a fact that there are parents put in there on just there looks alone ,i never would have guessed that to be true,untill philly dhs had my son and futere daughter in law lives ripped apart because dhs figures it to be cheaper on ther budget instead of going after the day care where the children now days spend 90% of there time,and dhs put my son behind bars on no evidence,no facts,no proof all they recieved was goos remarks about the parents my son timothy and my then to be future daughter in law theresa collins lives were shredded to peices and all they did was being good ,loving careing,nurturing parents and now my sons,child has to be with out his father because he is in prison not even been to court yet for 3 mo and it is all based on hear say!! no witness, no such crime even happened,and discrimenation !i thought this was AMERICA i guess i need to send letters to our president and ask him to look into this ,ita all false charges on a loving father,son,brother and fiance.- so i guess im saying to mr pews report is the sytem (dhs) is broke down and laziness (and discriminationalot)on the agencies involved they dont care who is innocent anymore not at all! they just want the states alottment!!so i bet money there are more then half of those parents innocent !!
