ABSTRACT
There are many reasons for the high level of public interest in the subject of child poverty. The increasingly lively academic and political debate in Germany in the mid-1990s about the issue of 'poverty in prosperity' is characterized by the particular prevalence of poverty in households with children, found in all empirical studies. Children who grow up in poverty for a brief or long period also have no opportunity to improve their income or to provide more for themselves through their own efforts. At the centre of the data on income poverty in Germany referred to here is the income situation of people who live in households with young children. The concept of relative income poverty is based on the availability of resources, and takes into consideration only the income inflow. The poverty rate for two-parent households with one child runs largely parallel to the poverty rate for all households.
