Every third household had one pensioner (32.5 per cent) and in 17.4 per cent of households there were two pensioners.

3. Fosterage by another person or by a family

Among 3,787 households taking part in the survey, 45.7 per cent were workers apos households and 31.7 per cent pensioners apos households.

Family allowances a (without pensioners)

169. In the case of adoption, there is a leave of up to 24 weeks after the child moves into the parents apos home.

This happened much more often in households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (70.1 per cent), in households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (69.5 per cent) and in families of mothers raising children (62.6 per cent).

The households who evaluated their economic situation as bad were most often those with unemployed family members and without any pensioners (51.6 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (47.8 per cent) and mothers raising children (45.3 per cent).

Those reporting less consumption were households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (50.5 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (47.0 per cent) and mothers raising children (33.8 per cent).

Such sandwiches are least often taken by children from households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (71.4 per cent), from households of pensioners (75.2 per cent) and from households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (75.6 per cent). Changes in eating habits

Table 53. Households by unemployed and employed members and those receiving pensions, and by nourishment level

Although children's placement in foster families is given priority, many children are placed in homes that are poorly equipped and understaffed, as there is a lack of foster care and family based alternative care.

Those that reported having definitely experienced shortage of food were mainly households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (13.7 per cent), and households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (11.9 per cent).

Particularly often this was the case with households having unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (57.9 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (53.0 per cent) and mothers raising children (36.0 per cent).

Furthermore, 12.9 per cent of households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members, and every eighth household maintained on unearned income other than pensions were poorly nourished.

399. Great financial difficulties were most of all reported by households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (65.3 per cent), as well as households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (60.4 per cent).

However, among the households maintained on unearned income other than pensions only every fifth was of that opinion the same applied to households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members.

Parents ate worse than their children mainly in households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (50.7 per cent), and in households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (50.0 per cent).

The households which evaluated the level of satisfaction of their food requirements as worse than in an average household were mainly households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (24.2 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (22.4 per cent), and mothers raising children (19.4 per cent).

Nourishment level of household

409. The households reporting some experience of shortage of food were those with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (37.9 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (36.6 per cent), married couples raising four or more children (23.3 per cent), and mothers raising children (19.4 per cent).

Every fourth household maintained on unearned income other than pensions and as many households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members were nourished on an almost poor level.

The households which estimated their economic situation as poor were those with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (30.5 per cent), and households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (28.4 per cent).

The households which maintained that their standard of living had dropped significantly were mainly those with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (63.2 per cent) and households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (60.4 per cent).

331. Benefits from the alimony fund are paid to families which do not receive the alimony that is awarded and whose income per person does not exceed a fixed level.

The households which estimated their economic situation as almost poor were those with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (29.5 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (26.9 per cent) and mothers raising children (25.9 per cent).

Family allowances are granted to workers for each dependent child (article 38).

Two meals a day were most often the routine in households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (22.1 per cent), and in households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (20.1 per cent).

Old age and other pensioners were members of more than half the households (50.8 per cent).

Children who did not take sandwiches to school most often came from households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (32.8 per cent) and from households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (27.9 per cent).

Among those that evaluated the level of satisfaction of their food requirements as poor the highest number were households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (57.9 per cent) and households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (28.4 per cent).

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Definitely no Table 51. Households experiencing shortage of food by unemployed and employed members and those receiving pensions

2. Intercountry adoptions

Registration, family relations and adoption

Registration, family relations and adoption

People with no attachment to the labour market, such as housewives, are also granted old age pension from the age of 67.

Table 37. Households by presence of unemployed, employed and pension receiving members, and possibility of acquiring food

Concerned at the number of illegal adoptions, of children growing up without parents and of child victims of family and social violence, neglect and abuse,

330. The allowances for families bringing up disabled children are linked to the family allowances.

The households evaluating their nourishment as below the average level were those maintained on unearned income other than pensions (33.6 per cent), households with unemployed members (32.9 per cent), mothers raising children (30.9 per cent) and married couples raising four or more children (26.2 per cent).

332. Survivor apos s pensions are allocated in the case of the death of the family breadwinner.

Every working individual supported 6.4 non employed persons and poor households amounted to 58.1 per cent, or more than 2.2 million people, in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Families have low incomes and this leads them to have an imbalanced diet.

The remaining households examined were farmers apos households (7.9 per cent), farmworkers apos households (6.5 per cent), households of self employed or professional persons (4.7 per cent) and households maintained on unearned income, other than pensions (3.5 per cent).

With regard to family reunification and family formation, the Netherlands' income criteria and the existence of dependent residence status have been identified as areas where is at odds with the Convention.