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Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents.

This federally funded report presents a Model Policy designed to be used as a template for law enforcement agencies to develop policies for minimizing the trauma experienced by children at the time of their parent's arrest. The report begins with a concepts and issues paper that explain the...
Limited Father Involvement: Which Families Are Most at Risk?

Healthy marriage relationship skills education programs serving unmarried parents aim to help these couples improve their relationships, with the ultimate aim of supporting family stability and promoting child well-being. A central goal of these programs is to promote fathers' sustained, active...
Make a Plan: Migrant Parents' Guide to Preventing Family Separation.

This guide offers suggestions for steps immigrant parents can and should take to prepare for the possibility of separation from their children to increase the likelihood
that they can reunify with them if they are detained or deported.
Prepare un Plan: Guía Para Padres Inmigrantes Para Prevenir La Separación Familiar (Spanish version of Make a Plan: Migrant Parents' Guide to Preventing Family Separation).

This guide offers suggestions for steps immigrant parents can and should take to prepare for the possibility of separation from their children to increase the likelihood that they can reunify with them if they are detained or deported.
The New Silence: Family Breakdown and Child Sexual Abuse.

This report discusses the incidence of child sexual abuse in families in which children do not live with both biological parents and the silence surrounding the link between family breakdown and child sexual abuse in Australia. The need for a government-commissioned, anti-child sexual abuse...
Single, Cohabiting, & Married Households: 1995-2012.

Demographic changes, such as increases in cohabitation, divorce, and single parenthood as well as the delay in marriage entry and decrease in remarriage, continue to shape American families and households (Cherlin, 2010).The effects of these changes over time, however, differ across race/...
Detained or Deported: What About My Children? [Print version].

Detained or Deported: What About My Children? is a toolkit for families caught between the immigration and child welfare systems and those who assist them. Detained and deported parents struggle to make decisions about what will happen to their children, to participate in child welfare...
Detained or Deported: What About My Children? What to Do if You Can't Be With Them. [Interactive version].

Detained or Deported: What About My Children? is a toolkit for families caught between the immigration and child welfare systems and those who assist them. Detained and deported parents struggle to make decisions about what will happen to their children, to participate in child welfare...
Me han Detenido o Deportado: ¿Qué pasará con mis hijos o hijas? ¿Qué hacer cuando no puedes reunirte con tus hijos o hijas menores de edad? [Spanish, Interactive version]. Detained or Deported: What About My Children? What to Do if You Can't Be With Them.

Detained or Deported: What About My Children? is a toolkit for families caught between the immigration and child welfare systems and those who assist them. Detained and deported parents struggle to make decisions about what will happen to their children, to participate in child welfare...
Detained or Deported? Short Guide to Maintaining Custody of Your Children.

This tip sheet discusses steps detained and deported parents can take to protect their children and maintain their parental rights. Parents are urged to: ask for help, tell ICE you have children, try to get released, ask for prosecutorial discretion, get a lawyer, consider giving a relative or...
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