The challenges of children growing up with parents who were incarcerated at some point in their childhood can have a major effect on their lives. Parental incarceration can sometimes begin to affect the child at birth. Now with prison nurseries the pregnant mother can keep her baby during her stay in prison. With the loss of a parent, the child may begin to develop behavioral problems such as obedience, tantrums, and the loss of simple social skills. Never learning to live in a society, they are deprived of a normal social life. “The enormous increase in incarceration has led to a parallel, but much less documented, increase in the percentage of children growing up with an incarcerated parent during their childhood” (Johnson 2007). This means that the consequences of children of incarcerated parents receive no attention in the media or academic research. The academic research carried out in this article aims to strengthen the research already carried out by many other people. The impact of parental incarceration on these children can sometimes be both positive and negative. The incarceration of a parent can be the result of changes in the child's daily life, behavioral problems and the deprivation of a normal social life. Many questions have been raised about whether day care programs are equitable, but "the number of women incarcerated in state prisons in the United States (US) has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, and 70% of these women are mothers of minor children, according to the latest estimates from the Bureau of Justice” (Mumola, 2000). “Allowing women to parent their children within correctional facilities in the United States may be “one of the most controversial debates surrounding incarceration.” of women” (Bel...... middle of document ...... e, May 2009. Web. .Mumola, Christopher J. 2000. Incarcerated Parents and Their Children. Special Report of the Bureau of JusticeStatistics, NCJ 182335 Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice StatisticsPhillips, Susan D., Alaattin Erkanli, Gordon P. Keeler, E. Jane Costello, and Adrian Angold.2006. “Untangling the Risks: Parental Criminal Justice Involvement and Children's Exposure to Family Risks ". Criminology and public policy 5(4). Sroufe LA, Egeland B, Carlson EA, Collins WA: The Minnesota study of risk and adjustment from birth to adulthood. New York: The Guilford Press 2005. Tolan, Patrick H., Deborah Gorman-Smith, and Rolf Leober 9.2 (2000): 203-20.