 When a person becomes incarcerated, the family members are left to suffer silently without support or understanding from their community.
The children in particular sometimes suffer the most as they may not understand reason for the separation from their parent and may not know how to express their feelings of loss.
These children are sometimes referred to as the forgotten children, the invisible children or the children left behind.
These children face not only the loss of a parent, but the loss of income to the family and sometimes isolation from peers and neighbors as the crime and punishment become public knowledge. |
