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The article describes three cases of children whose parents are absent due to incarceration, with an accompanying mental-health analysis of each. The first case involves three boys, ages five, two, and one, who were placed in foster care following their parents' arrest for shoplifting while the one-year-old was with them. The case is said to provide an opportunity for collaboration between criminal justice and mental-health systems, both on a micro/clinical level and a macro/advocacy level.