Maternal imprisonment, economic marginality, and unmet health needs in early adulthood

There is relatively little research on access to the health care needed by children whose mothers have been incarcerated, and even fewer studies of how effects of lack of access continue and cumulate as these children transition from living with parents, parent surrogates, or foster care into adulthood. We find in a nationally representative U.S. panel study (n = 9418 participants from 1995 to 2007–2008 in the National Longitudinal Study of...