{"product_id":"loving-through-bars-cynthia-martone-9781891661488","title":"Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison","description":"An 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Martone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1891661485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891661488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Santa Monica Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2005 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2005","brand":"Cynthia Martone","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988049297663,"sku":"9781891661488","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79c50348-5b6f-4cd3-8441-04410830d08b.jpg?v=1683292332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/loving-through-bars-cynthia-martone-9781891661488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}