What's the Numbers?

_____ in 5 children will experience the death of someone close to them by age 18. (Kenneth Doka, Editor of OMEGA, Journal of Death and Dying)

__________________ children are living in a single-parent household because of the death of one parent. (Owens, D. “Recognizing the Needs of Bereaved Children in Palliative Care” Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. 2008; 10:1)

Difficulty concentrating in class, withdrawal/disengagement and less class participation, absenteeism, decrease in quality of work, and less reliability in turning in assignments are all exhibited behaviors from students who ....... (Grieving in Schools: Nationwide Survey among Classroom Teachers on Childhood Bereavement Conducted by New York Life Foundation and American Federation of Teachers, 2012)

______ in 10 teachers currently have at least one student in their class(es) who has lost a parent, guardian, sibling, or close friend in the past year.(Grieving in Schools: Nationwide Survey among Classroom Teachers on Childhood Bereavement Conducted by New York Life Foundation and American Federation of Teachers, 2012)

More than ________ children in the U.S. have an incarcerated parent. That is 1 in 28 children (The Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Center on the States. Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility. Washington, DC. 2010 )

Parental incarceration increases the risk of children living in poverty or experiencing household instability independent of these other problems (Phillips, S.D., Errantly, A., Keeler, G.P., Costello, J.E., An gold, A., Johnston, D., et al. (2006). Disentangling the risks: Parent criminal justice involvement and children’s exposure to family risks. Criminology and Public Policy, 5, 677–702).

Children of incarcerated parents are more likely to be incarcerated than their peers, and are predisposed to criminal activity ( Raimon, M., Lee, A., & Genty, P. (2009). Sometimes Good Intentions Yield Bad Results: ASFA’s Effect on Incarcerated Parents and Their Children).

______ - ______% of fathers had at least one minor child living with them before incarceration (Glaze,L. and Maruschak, L. Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children. Bureau of Justice Statistics Washington, D.C. 2011)

1998 statistics show that when a parent was arrested: o 67% were handcuffed in front of their children o 27% reported weapons drawn in front of their children ( 8 Phillips, S. D. (1998). Programming for children of female offenders. Proceedings from 4th National Head Start Research Conference. Washington, DC)