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This paper analyzes the definitions of child poverty with respect to both the current thinking about the term, and its relationship to Conditional Cash Transfers. Principal definitions in Conditional Cash Transfers are reviewed here, as well as the main critiques to this approach to social protection. Challenges and risk faced by money transfers erected as the main strategies to deal with child poverty in Latin America are analyzed. To do so, we focus particularly on protection and provision of rights. The conclusions note, despite the various positions that consider the conceptions on poverty underlying the CCTs programs to be broader and more comprehensive than those in other types of programs, this definition does not include essential aspects of the experience of children in poverty and of inequality