overview of poverty among all households and among those with children, presenting multiple poverty measures (relative and …We draw on LIS' various resources to sketch a portrait of child poverty in upper-income countries. We first summarize … past LIS-based scholarship on child poverty, highlighting studies that seek to explain cross-national variation in child …

children and childless families. Families with children, regardless of having one or two parent, had very high rates of poverty …The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy …

This paper investigates the real living standards and poverty status of United States children in the 1990's compared … to the children in 17 other nations, including Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia. We find that American low …-income children have lower real spendable income than do comparable children in almost every other nation studied. In contrast, high …

Childhood in an underdeveloped environment is a stage of life very likely to be overshadowed by poverty. The main aim … of this study is to look at the development of child poverty in the comparative angle. The study seeks to detect … connections between child poverty and the implemented family policies. Discussion include an overview of family policies in …

income and even lesser changes in poverty in most nations. …

of gender equality, the U.S. ranks above average in paid working time among dual-earner couples with no children, but …

having children; partnering at age 24 and having one child at age 27; partnering at age 24 and having two children, at ages … 25 and 27; and partnering at age 24, having two children at ages 25 and 27, and then living without a partner from ages …

The term 'family gap' refers to differences in income between households with children and households without children …