Table 4.
Multinomial logistic regression analysis of contact with formerly incarcerated parents for biological children only: Boston Reentry Study
| Occasional Contact(1) |
Weekly Contact(2) |
Coresidence(3) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constant | –1.668 (1.46) | –2.848* (2.51) | –6.316* (2.27) |
| Life Conditions After Prison Release | |||
| Unstable housing | –1.021 (1.73) | –1.559** (3.04) | –4.023** (3.56) |
| Reincarcerated | –3.745 (2.78) | –3.113** (3.11) | –17.844** (14.46) |
| Income | 0.002 (0.10) | 0.011 (0.60) | 0.031 (1.47) |
| Demographics of Incarcerated Parent | |||
| Female | –1.703* (2.12) | 0.280 (0.47) | 3.815** (4.34) |
| Number of parental partners | –0.096 (0.50) | –0.283 (1.79) | –0.631** (2.69) |
| Quality of Family Relationships | |||
| Contact in prison | 2.131** (3.38) | 3.802** (6.78) | 4.088 (1.61) |
| Pre-arrest support | –0.055 (0.34) | 0.305* (2.55) | 0.785** (2.73) |
| Feelings toward partner | 0.038 (0.21) | 0.277 (1.76) | 0.686** (2.81) |
| Crime and Drug Use | |||
| Using drugs/alcohol | –0.409 (0.76) | –0.511 (1.06) | –2.687** (3.73) |
| Arrested | 1.433 (1.81) | 0.408 (0.54) | 1.495 (1.44) |
| Restraining order | –0.577 (1.01) | 0.259 (0.55) | –0.227 (0.35) |
| Pseudo-R2 | .392 | ||
| Number of Children | 157 | ||
| Number of Child-Waves | 528 |
Notes: Regressions also control for child’s age, race and ethnicity, and fixed effects for each survey wave. Standard errors are clustered by child. Absolute z statistics are shown in parentheses.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01