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Families

Noted: Some groups have been hit much harder than others. ?African-American children living in lower-income, low-education neighborhoods are seven and a half times more likely than white kids to experience the incarceration of a parent,? said Julie Poehlmann, professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin. ?And by age 14, more than half of these kids with a low-education parent will have an imprisoned parent.?