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Children of Prisoners Can Live Crime Free Lives if Helped by Mentors

If children of prisoners are given the opportunity to be mentored, then they will definitely have an excellent chance of not committing crimes. As a parent of a son who has been in prison for the past 15 years, I can verify that children who are given a proper upbringing and mentoring program can grow into fine young men and women. My son's children, three boys, have had that very chance and thus far have done what is necessary to grow into fine young men.

It is very important though, to make sure children of prisoners are given every chance possible in life with a well established program that includes family, friends, teachers, and church featuring mentors from all phases of life. Often times the children feel overwhelmed with loss of their parent, but these children also need to see that they are not responsible for what has happened to the particular parent that has been incarcerated or the crime that they committed. In addition, these children need to know that the imprisoned father or mother is remorseful and fully plans on returning to society by living a clean life once they are released.

For my grandchildren, the mentors were wonder people, who gave them the direction and time that they needed to grow without making the same mistakes that their father made. They were given strong and loving support which included values to make the right kind of decisions, in order to become fine young men. These three twenty year olds are now serving our country in the armed forces, two in the Marines and one in the Army.

Another aspect of the mentoring is for the prisoner to receive mentoring upon leaving prison as a part of rehabbing into society and being able to function as parent who has learned from the mistake that was made. This is exactly what my son plans to do once he is released from prison so that he will have a better chance of returning to society as a fully healed adult, parent, and father.

None to say the least, at some or another in life most of us find ourselves mentoring to someone and the way in which the mentoring done can contribute to how a person, whether child or adult, will live the rest of their life.

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