For every one child border crosser separated from border crossing parents, there are 1,400 American children who are separated from their parents due to incarceration
Children with Parents in Prison Demographics
https://nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu/files/nrccfi-fact-sheet-2014.pdf
Children with Parents in Prison Demographics
- More than 2.7 million children in the U.S. have an incarcerated parent. That is 1 in 28 children.
- Approximately 10 million children have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives.
- One in 9 African American children (11.4%), 1 in 28 Hispanic children (3.5%), and 1 in 57 white children (1.8%) in the United States have an incarcerated parent.
- Approximately half of children with incarcerated parents are under ten years old.
https://nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu/files/nrccfi-fact-sheet-2014.pdf
