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When the bough breaks-- children of women in prison / by Jill Evans Petzall and Deeds Rogers.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Deeds, author.
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of women prisoners--United States.
- Children of women prisoners.
- Women prisoners--United States.
- Women prisoners.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (57 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2001.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- What happens to children when their mothers are incarcerated? In prisons throughout the United States, 80% of all female inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses, and 80% are mothers of vulnerable children. This sensitive documentary is an up -close look at children coping with their mother's incarcerations. The children lay bare their longings and their desire for love. Each story illustrates policy gaps between the judicial and social service systems that are supposed to serve them. More than 250,000 children in the U.S suffer daily being separated from their mothers. They are often left in the custody of extended family members where their needs are misunderstood, where poverty prevails and where they suffer emotional neglect and abuse. These children are six times more likely than their peers to end up in prison. Indeed the system of justice perpetuates the very problems it seeks to prevent.When the Bough Breaks -- Children of Mothers in Prison is a powerful reminder that the system must be changed if these children are to have an emotionally healthy future.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- Athens International Film Festival, 2001
- Finalist, American Film Institute Festival, 2001
- International Women in the Director's Chair Festival, 2001
- Midwest Emmy Award for Best Documentary, 2002
- Western Psychological Association, 2002
- OCLC:
- 747797692
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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