If the father has been in prison, what effect will it have on the children?

If you have a criminal record, it will not affect the three generations, but it will affect the political review of your immediate children in the future, and affect their participation in civil service examinations, conscription, banking, state-owned enterprises, institutions, military schools, and police schools. It should be noted that if you apply for special positions, such as police, prisons and other related positions, you need to prove that your close relatives have no criminal record within three generations.

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Political censorship mainly emphasizes the candidates' ideological progress, good moral character, decent style, strong organizational discipline and strong concept of rule of law. Generally, under any of the following circumstances, the political examination is unqualified:

Have words and deeds against the Four Cardinal Principles; Having bad behaviors such as hooliganism and theft, and having poor moral quality; Suspected crime has not been ascertained; Lineal blood relatives or collateral blood relatives who have a great influence on me engage in activities that endanger China's national security abroad, and I can't draw a clear line with them; A person who has a great influence on himself in the lineal or collateral blood relatives has been sentenced to death or is serving a sentence.

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