moreover the proportion of poor children living in a singleparent family has increased significantly since in luxembourg and norway as well as in the czech republic france hungary and the slovak republic singleparent families have an average risk three times higher than families with children and at least two adults and this ratio is higher than in australia czech republic finland iceland and new zealand moreover this risk depends strongly on the employment status of the parent since on average more than twothirds of jobless singleparent families are poor income and the proportion is three times less than their lone parent works figure b in annex b