column describes the poverty rate if there were no singleparent jobless households the following columns consider different scenarios regarding the situation of families with two parents this scenario indicates that poverty reduction would occur if working par ents were not penalized for job quality or received benefits to compensate for this penalty in table the order of magnitude of the reduction in child poverty rates induced by the different scenarios depends on the proportion of the population represented by each family category to complement this information the reduction in poverty rates that can be expected within each category is presented in table for singleparent families and table for twoparent families across all scenarios the poverty line is unchanged at its current level which makes it possible to estimate the benefit of a change in the employment status of parents