All Alone In The World Chapter Summary

Nell Bernstein in his book, All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, is a moving insight into the effects of America’s incarceration policy. The award-winning journalist delves into the lives of children whose parents are locked up in prison. The book is a condemnation of the penal code of the U.S. Over two million children and parents who are torn apart by the current incarceration policy are subjects in the book. It gives accounts of the challenges that children with incarcerated parents face in their lives.
The accounts presented by Nell Bernstein calls to attention issues pertaining to the rights of these children. A careful look at the bill of rights for children with incarcerated parents gives guidance on how to deal with issues emanating from the accounts presented in the book. For example the book has evidence to studies that show that 70 percent of children who were present at the time of their parents arrest watch them getting handcuffed. It is then estimated that 30 percent of the parents are arrested with the use of weapons getting in play. This is quite undesirable. These could cause trauma to the children which is not fair to them.

In agreement, is that these children should reserve the right to support and life long relationship with the parents. They also should be allowed to visit and touch their parents at all times. From the book, it is documented that at times the children are delivered to social welfare homes in police cars. This is a controversial subject as it may have effects on the perceptions of the other kids this child will be interacting with at the home. Whether the home should collect the kids from the police or the police should deliver the kids is a contentious issue. The bottom-line is that the welfare of these children should be safeguarded by all