Strozier Anne L, Armstrong Mary, Skuza Stella, Cecil Dawn, McHale James
School of Social Work, and director, Florida Kinship Center.
Fam Soc. 2011;92(1):55-61. doi: 10.1606/1044-3894.4064.
The number of incarcerated mothers has risen steadily in the past 20 years, with a majority of the mothers' children being cared for by relatives, usually the maternal grandmother (Smith, Krisman, Strozier, & Marley, 2004). This article examines the unique coparenting relationship of grandmothers and mothers through qualitative individual interviews with a sample of 24 incarcerated mothers with children between the ages of 2 and 6, and 24 grandmothers raising their children. The study revealed many different variants of healthy coparenting alliances, achieved against often huge odds. Much variation was also discovered in dyads where coparenting alliances were not as successful. Implications for practice include performing structural family assessments, enhancing jail education programs, and offering extended coparenting treatment after discharge.
在过去20年里，被监禁母亲的数量稳步上升，大多数母亲的孩子由亲属照顾，通常是外祖母（史密斯、克里斯曼、斯特罗齐尔和马利，2004年）。本文通过对24名有2至6岁孩子的被监禁母亲和24名抚养其孩子的外祖母进行定性个体访谈，研究了外祖母和母亲独特的共同养育关系。该研究揭示了许多不同形式的健康共同养育联盟，这些联盟往往是在克服巨大困难的情况下达成的。在共同养育联盟不太成功的二元组中也发现了很大差异。对实践的启示包括进行结构性家庭评估、加强监狱教育项目以及在释放后提供延长的共同养育治疗。
