title: Parental incarceration and child mortality in Denmark.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We used Danish registry data to examine the association between parental incarceration and child mortality risk.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used a sample of all Danish children born in 1991 linked with parental information. We conducted discrete-time survival analysis separately for boys (n = 30 146) and girls (n = 28 702) to estimate the association of paternal and maternal incarceration with child mortality, controlling for parental sociodemographic characteristics. We followed the children until age 20 years or death, whichever came first.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results indicated a positive association between paternal and maternal imprisonment and male child mortality. Paternal imprisonment was associated with lower child mortality risks for girls. The relationship between maternal imprisonment and female child mortality changed directions depending on the model, suggesting no clear association.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results indicate that the incarceration of a parent may influence child mortality but that it is important to consider the gender of both the child and the incarcerated parent.
authors.affiliation: Christopher Wildeman is with the Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Signe Hald Andersen is with the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hedwig Lee is with the Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle. Kristian Bernt Karlson is with SFI (The Danish National Centre for Social Research) and the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wildeman
authors.forename: Signe Hald
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: Hedwig
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kristian Bernt
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Karlson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D011329:Prisoners; D012042:Registries; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012737:Sex Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D055815:Young Adult