Effects Of Incarceration

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Many people experience many different types of losses. The loss could be either be short-term or long-term. The effects of the different types of losses do not only affect the family, but it effects the child most. Although, many kids who have sudden life-changing tragedies, often question why, because they do not understand. One sudden life changing tragedy is incarceration. Incarceration is a sudden life changing tragedy for most children. The first effect on children is emotional trauma. This is damage to the child’s mind. If the child is present when the parent is being arrested, he or she may become traumatized. When being in the presence of the parent being put in handcuffs, tasered, or even beaten could permanently scar the child. Seeing this could have the image replay over and over in the child’s head that they can’t forget. He or she could not believe what they have seen, which would cause them to be shocked. Since what had happened to the child’s parent was sudden, there was no way for the child to prepare for the great loss. This is when kids don’t understand why it happened, which …show more content…

One of the feelings is guilt. This is a feeling the child may develop because he or she may feel like it is their fault the parent has gotten arrested, although it is not. The second feeling is fear. The child fears being abandoned by the parent. He or she may think the parent is no longer coming back. The child fears being alone. The third is sadness, the loss of the parent is hard for the child to cope with. The feeling could be long-term or short-term, depending on the trouble of the parent. The last feeling is embarrassment. The child may feel embarrassed to show his or her face to the public because the parent was taken to jail. He or she may also feel like they will get picked on because their parents face is all over the news, and in the

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