, quantitative research tends to consider effects on child wellbeing and generally concludes paternal incarceration harms children …’ relationships with their children’s mothers. Effects on mothers’ parenting, however, are more inconsistent, as recent paternal …

An increasing body of literature documents considerable disparities in the health and wellbeing of young children in … the United States, though maternal depression is one important, yet often overlooked, determinant of children's health. In … this paper, I find that maternal depression, particularly depression that is recurrent or chronic, puts children at risk of …

variation in children’s test scores at school entry. …

considered the effect of maternal incarceration on child wellbeing after adjusting for differences between children who do and do … effects of maternal incarceration on 21 caregiver- and teacher-reported behavioral problems among nine-year-old children … both maternal and paternal incarceration, compared to children with neither parent incarcerated, children with only a …

living with both parents prior to paternal incarceration and among children of previously incarcerated fathers. Taken … intergenerational relationships, children’s contact with grandparents. Results from both ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed …-effects regression models show that incarceration decreases the frequency of children’s contact with paternal, but not maternal …