

Incarceration and the Family: A Review of Research and Promising Approaches for Serving Fathers and Families. 6.3 Involvement in the Child Welfare System
Another challenge to father-child relationships is that some children are placed into the child welfare system during the father’s imprisonment. Although the proportion of children of incarcerated fathers in foster care is smaller than that of children of incarcerated mothers (approximately 2% compared to 10%), the number of children is actual