{"product_id":"loving-through-bars-9781891661488","title":"Loving Through Bars","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAn estimated 2.3 million children in the United States have a parent in prison-children whose lives are filled with a unique kind of instability and uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese children are themselves victims of their parents' crimes, members of a neglected segment of our population who are potentially damaged by stigma and shame and who are at risk of being pulled into a vicious cycle of future criminality and deviant social behavior. Such children are child prisoners-kids who must learn to understand living and loving through bars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLoving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of these unfortunate kids, presenting their particular plights through a series of stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the people readers will meet are a little girl who chats with murderers at Attica Prison while visiting her father, the recently released prisoner who has seven children by five different mothers, and the second-grader whose dad regularly calls him from jail and encourages him to put a pillow over his mother's head at night in order to kill her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by an experienced public school administrator-Martone has been awarded the Outstanding Educator Award for the State of New York-this examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague children of prisoners chronicles their attempts to cope and presents a possible starting place for societal response.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cynthia Martone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48287134810363,"sku":"9781891661488","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d86a86a8-5843-4a5e-9bcf-161d5965dceb.jpg?v=1771575440","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/loving-through-bars-9781891661488","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}