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(09-11-2023, 10:30 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: In order to end up in state prison you have to have committed several felonies.  No one ends up in prison for their first felony, unless it is a very serious one e.g. murder, rape, arson, assault with a firearm etc.  A child is far better off not being raised by a criminal, and their obvious influences, than to not have them around at all.

If "them" refers to the "criminal," I think that is generally how most people who favor increased incarceration look at it. 

So for them, family break up wouldn't really register as a serious consequence of incarceration. 

Nor would they link it to future consequences, I guess on the assumption that children from single-parent homes are less likely to become offenders themselves if they are in a single-parent home because a "criminal" parent is in prison.