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Parent-Child Separation

Causes, Consequences, and Pathways to Resilience

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  • Examines child development and adjustment when parental separation results from larger institutional forces
  • Addresses challenges faced by separated parents and children
  • Describes supportive structures and interventions for separated families

Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI, volume 1)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Parental Migration and Deportation

  2. Parental Incarceration

  3. Parental Military Deployment

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About this book

This book examines the similarities in children’s short- and long-term development and adjustment when they have been separated from their parents because of larger institutional forces. It addresses the unique circumstances and the similarities faced by parents and children under three different institutional contexts of separation: parental migration and deportation, parental incarceration, and parental military deployment. Chapters describe the difficulties faced by families in each of these circumstances, along with the challenges in conducting research under the multidimensional and dynamic complexities of parent-child separation. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for creating supportive structures and interventions for families facing separation that can bolster youth well-being in childhood and beyond.

Featured areas of coverage include:

· Parental migration.

· Parental incarceration.

· Parental military deployment.

· Undocumented migration and deportation.

· Child-parent relationship and child resilience and adjustment.

Parent-Child Separation is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, family studies, public health, clinical social work, educational policy, and migration studies as well as all interrelated disciplines, including sociology, criminology, demography, prevention science, political science, and economics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Population Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, USA

    Jennifer E. Glick

  • Department of Sociology, Penn State University, University Park, USA

    Valarie King

  • Social Science Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, USA

    Susan M. McHale

About the editors

Jennifer E. Glick, Ph.D., is Arnold S. and Bette G. Hoffman Professor of Sociology and Demography and Director of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Dr. Glick is a social demographer with expertise in migration, family processes, and children's education and developmental trajectories. She has written extensively on the educational outcomes among children of immigrants in the United States and how migration alters family relationships and living arrangements.

Valarie King, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies, and an Associate of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Her research focuses on intergenerational relationships across the life course and their implications for the health, well-being, and development of family members. Dr. King’s most recent work focuses on elucidating the factors that promote the development of strong ties between children and their stepfathers, and the ways in which stepfathers can promote children’s well-being.

Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., is Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Professor of Demography at Penn State. Her research focuses on children's and adolescents' family roles, relationships, and daily experiences and how these family dynamics are linked to youth development and adjustment. Dr. McHale’s research highlights family gender dynamics and the role of sociocultural practices and values in youth development and well-being.

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