{"product_id":"loving-through-bars-children-with-parents-in-prison-cynthia-martone","title":"Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison Cynthia Martone","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover in DJ in Good Condition. Ex-Library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eAn estimated 2.3 million children in the United States have a parent in prison-children whose lives are filled with a unique kind of instability and uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese children are themselves victims of their parents' crimes, members of a neglected segment of our population who are potentially damaged by stigma and shame and who are at risk of being pulled into a vicious cycle of future criminality and deviant social behavior. Such children are child prisoners-kids who must learn to understand living and loving through bars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLoving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of these unfortunate kids, presenting their particular plights through a series of stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the people readers will meet are a little girl who chats with murderers at Attica Prison while visiting her father, the recently released prisoner who has seven children by five different mothers, and the second-grader whose dad regularly calls him from jail and encourages him to put a pillow over his mother's head at night in order to kill her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by an experienced public school administrator-Martone has been awarded the Outstanding Educator Award for the State of New York-this examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague children of prisoners chronicles their attempts to cope and presents a possible starting place for societal response.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43660242026723,"sku":"EXL791-112","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/products\/2107660.jpg?v=1673966143","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/loving-through-bars-children-with-parents-in-prison-cynthia-martone","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}