from a child perspective this assumption is often justified on the basis that assuming that children obtain an equal share of available household resources charts a middle road between the deprivation they may be subject to if parents consume a disproportionate share and the extra protection they might receive if parents make sacrifices to ensure children do not go without corak i however differences in parenting behaviour across households may lead to children living in poverty in nonpoor households and viceversa if for instance intrahousehold allocation patterns are determined by bargaining between different parties we would expect the income pooling restriction not to hold