“…that parenting skills generalize across settings and time (Feldman & Case, 1997;Johnson, Walker, & Rodriguez, 1996;Kaiser et al, 1996;Middlemas, 1996). Evaluations of parenting groups designed for incarcerated parents have demonstrated that group interventions increase inmate-parent's commitment to family life, knowledge of child development (Caddle, 1993), and inmate-parent's institutional adjustment and parenting skills (Lanier & Fisher, 1990;Martin & Cotten, 1995;Showers, 1993;Harm & Thompson, 1997).…”