The person is supervised by a probation or parole officer in the community where he or she lives. Supervised means that the person must follow certain rules, called conditions . If these conditions are not followed, the person may have to go to jail or prison. People are sent to jail or prison because they break the law. Laws are rules that tell us how people should and should not behave.
Children have rules of behavior, too.
When some children break the rules, they may get a time out or lose privileges. About families There are all kinds of families. Sometimes children live with their birth or adoptive mother and father. Sometimes they live with their mother or their father. With another family member.