they conclude that reducing worklessness and promoting work by raising the number of twoearner families is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce child poverty instead reducing work poverty is also likely to be a central plank of any policy strategy to reduce child poverty in particular as policies of encouraging employment are likely to be a prerequisite for public and political support for more effective redistribution to the poor for single parents a third and potentially important source of income is child support across oecd member countries however obligations for child support and the effectiveness of its collection vary widely