Parents’ relationships with their adult children play an important role in shaping mid and later life health. While these relationships are often sources of support, stressors in the lives of children can compromise parents’ health as they age. I consider that a child’s incarceration is also a stressor that could imperil parents’ health through social, emotional, and economic strains that parents may experience as a result. Using data on 3,159 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 in a series of lagged dependent variable regression models, I find that a child’s incarceration is associated with declines in maternal health between ages 40 and 50. These associations are largest for mothers who had grandchildren by their child at the time of the child’s incarceration. I close by discussing the implications of child incarceration for intergenerational ties and other social determinants of midlife health.

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双重危险中的联系生活：中年儿童的监禁与孕产妇健康。

父母与成年子女的关系在影响中后期生命健康方面发挥着重要作用。虽然这些关系通常是获得支持的来源，但随着年龄的增长，儿童生活中的压力源可能会损害父母的健康。我认为孩子的监禁也是一个压力源，它可能通过父母可能会遭受的社会，情感和经济压力来损害父母的健康。使用来自1979年全国青年纵向调查的3,159名母亲的数据，通过一系列滞后因变量回归模型，我发现孩子的监禁与40至50岁之间的孕产妇健康状况下降有关。在孩子被监禁时由他们的孩子代孙。