Parents make difficult choices between earning income and time with their family, and while the detrimental consequences for adolescent’s mental health from financial hardships is well known, is there a comparable impact from time pressures? Using longitudinal data from Australian households (HILDA, 11,128 observations) we consider couple and lone parent households where parents have a

What does it mean to live under time? Life course research is fundamentally concerned with time, but less so with the temporal conditions under which people must act as their lives unfold. I develop the idea of temporal positioning to examine how socially organized relations to time shape what people can do, when, and on what