This center is built on the conviction that studying the issues facing working parents and their children requires understanding the dynamics of working families—not only from the perspective of adults in the household, but also through the voices of the children. University of Chicago faculty from psychology, sociology, economics, child development, human development, and public policy work collaboratively to examine how families invest time and resources, how these choices are made, and the effects they have on the quality of relationships in the household and the resulting socialization of school-age children and adolescents.