AS per OECD latest report, poverty in households with children is rising in nearly all OECD countries. Families with children are more likely to be poor today than in previous decades when the poorest in society were more likely to be pensioners.

The share of children living in poor households has risen in many countries over the past decade to reach 12.7% across the OECD. One in five children in Israel, Mexico, Turkey, the United States and Poland live in poverty. (The OECD defines poor as someone living in a household with less than half the median income, adjusted for family size).

The report documents how families across the OECD have changed dramatically in just a generation. With fertility rates dropping from 2.2 children per woman to 1.7 over the past three decades, families are getting smaller. Fewer people are getting married and among those that are, divorce rates are rising.