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Children | What, and how, to tell the children
The following article called 'Questions from Caregivers' discusses the issue of how those looking after children following
an imprisonment of one of their relatives can tell the child about what has happened, if they have decided to do so:
Questions from caregivers (File size: 84KB) (Courtesy of
Families and Corrections Network)
Although the article mainly focuses on telling the child about the offence, the same principles could be applied if the child
wants to know what it is like in the prison or in the country in which the person is detained.
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| "We miss him; we want him to know what we think of him. We have to let him know in case he does
anything stupid - you know, suicide or that…If he knows we love him and miss him he won't do anything like that." |
Siblings, aged 13 and 14. Quote taken from "Who's guilty?", produced by APF. |
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