the two subsections that follow examine the gains in terms of child poverty reduction that would be achieved by putting in place policies that would significantly increase the employment rate of parents or share a redistribution of child benefit andor by redistributing child andor housing benefits to ensure better coverage of children in relative poverty this section examines the potential impact on family poverty rates of a reduction in the number of jobless parents and the family poverty rates that could be achieved in the absence of a childrelated standard of living penalty i e if the poverty rate of families with children was equal to that of households without children conditional to adult employment status different scenarios are considered and the impact on family poverty rates is shown in table column shows the current proportion of families under the poverty line amongst households with children ie a weighted poverty rate for families