I Miss My Dad I Miss My Dad is the first-person account of a child whose father has been taken to prison. The child begins the story recounting the experience of having the police come to the home and arrest his father. Despite a female officer comforting the child and telling him everything will be okay, nothing is ever the same afterward. The child misses his father and struggles through the heartache in day-to-day life with his mother, who is also struggling in the father’s absence. The child is able to visit, but the trip is a long one and always too short. Father gives his son advice and assurance that he is loved, and the child maintains a bond with his father despite the distance and circumstance. According to the National Institute of Corrections, 1 in 50 children have a parent in prison, and 40% of those parents lived with the child before they were incarcerated. Having a parent in prison can contribute to behavior problems, poor performance in school, and permanently damage the relationship between parent and child. While the child in this book may have avoided the worst of these consequences, the heartache is real. Let a child with an incarcerated parent know they are not alone. Read I Miss My Dad to them, available for purchase at Amazon.com!