'Sesame Street' imprisonment Kit helps families Cope with America's prison epidemic (VIDEO)

Sesame Street is no stranger to controversy. By divorce, AIDS to Bert and Ernie's sexual ambiguity, the show famous lowered the limits of what preschoolers should know.

Sesame Street latest hot topic-detention-debuted this week as an educational kit entitled "small kids, big challenges: detention." The package, consisting of stories, tips, and activities for children and caregivers, as "educational outreach initiative for families with children (age 3-8), with a parent detention" should be explained the Sesame Workshop Web site.

So the Atlantic j.k. Trotter has caused so far pretty polarized reactions to the package:

CBS News, which presented the burden of the public, praising the attempt to address the very real problem of children with beloved people in prison: "Sesame Street, easy, familiar way tempted [imprisonment] break with imaginary characters to explore - and explain - what once was unimaginable, but now more and more common." (In fact, is the US incarceration rate of the world's highest.) The libertarian magazine reason however saw things a little differently: "congratulations, America, make it almost normal that a parent in jail or prison."

2010 Children grow a study from the Pew Charitable trusts, nearly 2.7 million with a parent who is now in jail. It is an epidemic that has plagued minority communities largely though a report earlier this year revealed a back in this long-term trend.

Prices for black threw imprisonment Americans strongly from 2000 to 2009, especially for women, while the rate of imprisonment for white and Hispanic rose in the same decade report, released in February of prison research and determined advocacy group the sentencing project.

No single factor could explain the changing figures, Marc Mauer, the Executive Director of the project conviction, told the New York Times, but changes in drug laws and penalties for drug-related crimes probably played a large role. Other possible prices for black, the increasing number of Hispanics, who disproportionately have concerned mandatory prison sentences for methamphetamine abuse and socio-economic strata, the white women and white were decreasing arrest he added.

What can be explained, is what means exactly detention and the feelings a child may a parent behind in prison, gone, says University of Wisconsin psychologist Julie Poehlmann.

"Nothing to say half of the families. An another third say is the parent in the hospital or something. "You talk about not know how", Palmer said in a release that detention Toolkit discusses her work as a consultant for Sesame Street. "The more can recognize our society these kids will need to speak less stigmatized, on this subject,."

Check out a sample of the video clip from Sesame Street "small kids, big challenges: detention" kit above.

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