More than five million children under the age of 18 — approximately 7 percent of all children in the United States — have at least one parent who has been incarcerated, a report from Child Trends finds.

According to the report, Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children? (22 pages, PDF), African-American children are nearly twice as likely as white children (11.5 percent vs. 6 percent) to have had a parent who was incarcerated, while children living in poverty are more than three times as likely as those from higher-income families (12.5 percent vs. 3.9 percent) and those living in rural areas are 1.7 times as likely as those in metropolitan areas (10.7 percent vs. 6.3 percent).

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