The difficulties 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 from birth. Now, thanks to prison crèches, pregnant mothers can look after their babies during their stay in prison. With the loss of their parent, the child may begin to develop behavioral problems related to obedience, tantrums, and loss of simple social skills. Never learning to live in 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 proportion of children who grew up with a parent incarcerated as children” (Johnson 2007). This means that the consequences for the children of incarcerated parents receive no attention from the media or academic research. The academic research carried out in this article is intended to strengthen the research already carried out by many others. The impact of the parent's incarceration on these children can sometimes be both positive and negative. The incarceration of a parent can lead to a change in the child's daily life, behavioral problems and deprive him of a normal social life. Many questions have been raised about whether day-care programs are fair, but "the number of women incarcerated in state prisons in the United States (US) has increased significantly over the past 20 years, and 70% of these women are mothers of minor children, according to the latest Bureau of Justice estimates” (Mumola, 2000). “Allowing women to raise their children in U.S. correctional facilities could be “one of the most contentious debates surrounding women's imprisonment” (Bel...... middle of article.. ....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. “Unraveling Risk: Parental Criminal Justice Involvement and Children's Exposure to Family Risks.” Criminology and Public Policy 5 (4). 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. Rolf Leober. 9.2 (2000) : 203-20..