Findings suggest that this factor plays a significant and considerable role in terms of income poverty and, especially, financial strain. In Germany, France and the UK, a child’s probability of being financially strained is respectively 32 to 37 percentage points higher than for a child living with both parents (the reference category is a two-parent / one-child family). The work intensity category between zero and 0.5 is also rather small, but we include this category in our analysis as the parameter estimates are consistent with the other lower work intensity categories.