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Motherhood

2 Motherhood articles categorized as: Youth

Children on the Outside: Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration
by Judith Greene and Patricia Allard

Children “on the outside” with a parent in prison suffer a special stigma. Too often they grow up and grieve under a cloud of low expectations and amidst a swirling set of assumptions that they will fail.

 Children of Prisoners Community Family Motherhood Youth

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You’ll Stick With Your Crappy School, and You’ll Like It
by Radley Balko

Crazy case in Ohio, where a 40-year-old single mother lied about the residency of her children in order to get the  kids into a better public school. Kelley Williams-Bolar claimed her kids lived with their grandfather rather than with her in Akron. Instead of merely transferring the kids back to the bad school, local officials instead decided to charge Williams-Bolar with two felonies, claiming that by enrolling her kids in the better school, she defrauded taxpayers of more than $30,000.

 Children of Prisoners Family Motherhood Youth

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