Bochum researchers calculate a significantly higher risk of poverty for single parents and families than in previous studies. The basis is a new method that is supposed to provide a more realistic assessment of the situation.
According to a study by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, families are at greater risk of poverty than previously thought. The situation is particularly drastic for single parents. Bochum scientists have been commissioned with a newly developed method the Foundation a poverty risk rate of 68 percent is calculated for single parents. That is over 20 percentage points more than in previous studies, it said.
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According to the Bertelsmann study, the risk of poverty for couples with children is almost three percentage points higher than previously determined values. About 13 percent of couples with one child are at risk of poverty, and for couples with three children the rate is 18 percent.
According to the foundation, the new calculation method developed at the Ruhr University Bochum should "enable a more realistic view of the income situation of families". So far, the incomes are poor households through the Systematic overestimation of the so-called OECD scale and underestimation of those wealthy families.
"Situation with each child more difficult"
The study also shows that couples with children or single parents have always been financially worse off than childless couples on average over the past 25 years. "The financial situation of families becomes more difficult with each additional child", explained Jörg Dräger from the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board. The income gap between wealthy and poor families continued to widen during this period.
The risk of poverty is particularly high for single parents
Only families that could expand their employment could have maintained or improved their income situation, it was said. As a rule, the mothers worked more than before. The expansion of childcare was crucial for this. In contrast, child support increases would not have improved the situation of families with children sustainably.
In a first reaction to the study, the German child welfare organization called for a fundamental reform of family support, for example in the form of basic child protection.
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