All Alone in the World, Nell Bernstein
All Alone in the World, Nell Bernstein
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All Alone in the World
Children of the Incarcerated

Author: Nell Bernstein

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2020

Synopsis

One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision—incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children—and one in eight African American children—goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.

Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family, journalist Nell Bernstein shows, through the deeply moving stories of real families, how the children of the incarcerated are routinely punished for their parents' status: ignored, neglected, stigmatized, and endangered, with minimal effort made to help them cope.

Topics range from children's experiences at the time of their parent's arrest, to laws and policies that force even low-level offenders to forfeit their parental rights, to alternative sanctions that take into account prisoners' status as mothers and fathers.

All Alone in the World defines a crucial aspect of criminal justice and, in doing so, illuminates a critical new realm of human rights.

About Nell Bernstein

Nell Bernstein is a former Soros Justice Media Fellow, a winner of a White House Champion of Change award, and the author of All Alone in the World. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Salon, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She lives outside Berkeley, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirsten

This book is extremely moving and really inspires you to want to do something to help children and families who have been affected by incarceration. It's true, as some goodreads reviewers have pointed out, that the author takes a very sympathetic view of the parents and doesn't talk much about their......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

This is a book about the children who are left behind when their mothers or fathers (or both) are incarcerated in the United States. This book is written by a journalist but as easily could have been written by a social worker because of the way that she writes and the ease with which she discusses......more

Goodreads review by Cecily

An important book exploring the many ways America’s prison system disrupts the lives of children and families, and the gross lack of support and attention for the healing needed — for those who commit crimes, those who lose their parents to the prison system, and the caregivers who step up to care f......more

Goodreads review by Gail

Vitally important work for understanding the impact of parental incarceration, the intersection between the child welfare system and the prison system, and how our current policies and practices actually create crime rather than support families. A must-read for anyone who works with prisoners and t......more

Goodreads review by Heather

I enjoyed this book and found it very sad that the issues addressed in it are still very large issues today. I only gave it 3 stars because IMO the chapters have a tendency to repeat themselves, which felt like filler. I like the layout of each chapter in starting with stories and ending with hope.......more

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