For children with an LGBTQ parent in prison or jail, the lack of parental ties, fear and violence on the inside for incarcerated LGBT people, and collateral consequences of a criminal record add to these challenges.
Last month, Quebec Minister of Public Security Lise Thériault vowed to crack down on inmates' access to "erotic" films by putting parental controls on prison cable TV.
The punishment also included an additional three months in prison for uquq, or parental disobedience, because Badawi had argued publicly with his father over the years.
Petherick even ventures that being a prison director is a "very parental role … Mum and Dad need to be seen out there".
The boys' father, John Skelton, has been arrested and is being held in an Ohio prison on three counts of parental kidnapping.
Her father filed a petition of "parental disobedience" against her and a Saudi judge ordered her detained in a Jeddah prison, where she spent seven months until international pressure helped spur her release and all charges were dropped.
Like Hayward, they are often exposed as children to violence and trauma, parental incarceration, addiction, and poverty, all contributing to a lifelong inability to stay out of prison.
Aiding and abetting of international parental kidnapping — assisting the removal of a child "with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights" — carries a prison sentence of up to three years.
And if they can go to prison at age 13, why shouldn't teenagers be allowed to marry too -- with the proper judicial and parental oversight?
