Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice GrahamGuest, Co-Host, Dr. Debra Napier, PhD Live and Call-In Friday, December 17, 2010 8 - 10 pm ET CHILDREN AND OUR IMPRISONED FAMILY The dilemma is simple but so complex. So many children live in families where a Father, Mother, Uncles and other family members are incarcerated in a prison and jail. How much of that fact should, especially small children, know and see about incarceration ? When Black children visit places of incarceration, what are the messages, what are they learning and what are they internalizing ? How does it affect their sense of "being Black" where it seems that "Black" may very be "very bad". Should we require some new configuration of visiting for children? Private conditions, children being away from obnoxious others, including visitors? Our young children share a family's pain when coping with incarceration and law offenses. Should they be exposed to the possibility that a prison is a mirror ? What is the balance in dealing with incarcerate