Summary(0:30) Good Morning Parents organization providing tools for families to maintain bonds during incarceration -- (1:06) Parenting challenges during the time of separation -- (1:26) Providing resources to move families forward -- (2:38) The increase in awareness and effectiveness of parent-child interaction sometimes brought on by incarceration -- (3:38) Taking the parent-child relationship for granted -- (4:33) Challenges of distance and discipline in the parent-child relationship during incarceration -- (6:15) Parenting as a way to prevent intergenerational incarceration -- (7:14) Constant commitment required by parenting -- (7:37) Laying foundations in parenting -- (8:34) Parenting education and involvement from the big systems with families involved in the justice system.
NoteAudio interview conducted on January 31, 2017, by Carmen Lopez at Central Library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
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TitleOral history interview conducted with Michelle Gantt and Jason Murray on 2017 January 31.