If EU governments' National Action Plans for Social Inclusion aim to abolish child poverty, they must clarify which of the many types of poverty is targeted and how families are to achieve the right to incomes adequate for human dignity and social participation asserted by the international conventions. The paper argues that necessary conditions for child poverty abolition and social inclusion must include the juridification and justiciability of children's right to household incomes based on empirical standards of adequacy for dignity and participation.
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