THE IMPACT OF MATERNAL IMPRISONMENT ON DEVELOPMENT PSICOSSOCIAL OF CHILDREN

Abstract

The prisional institution  has a specific cultural meaning cultural that can influence the individual relations of children; children of imprisoned women, and their development process in environments where their lives, can be on the school, in the neighborhood or a  family themselves, in which can be reproduced the social stigma, on it put on the children for association in a mother´s condition .
The objective of this article is to revise a psicossocial development´s stages theoretically of  Erik Erikson and from this point make a reflection in the impact of the separation mother-son for the prision in a process development of the children.
On the basis of the carried through notes, we can consider that the maternal imprisonment is an important event in a children´s life, with one meaning social specific and that can result in difficulties to the conflict resolution in a  phases´s specifics of their lives the impact can not in accordance with be intensified or the development phase where child was in a maternal imprisonment.