Most, if not all, analyses of material deprivation using the EU-SILC define the household (or an adult/child) as deprived only if the item is lacking because it cannot be afforded. This is also how the official EU material deprivation indicators are constructed (see Guio 2009). However, focusing on the enforced lack of resources implicitly introduces a financial dimension to the analysis of deprivation, while the MODA approach aims to keep the monetary and non-monetary dimensions separate. Moreover, parents may under-report the extent of deprivation of their children in order to comply with societal norms, and the full extent of the resulting bias is difficult to establish with certainty (Gabos et al 2011). Finally, the CRC protects children's rights irrespective of their parents' or guardians' "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status" (CRC Article 2). Since children tend to not have resources of their own, they should not be excluded from the consumption of goods and services important to their well-being because of the preferences of their parents.