ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the impact of parental employment patterns on young people's emotional well-being, but also asks what other factors are important. It examines the support for links between mental or emotional well-being, and parental employment patterns, together with personal, familial and other factors, to include family structure, parents' educational qualifications and own emotional well-being, the quality of family relationships, and young people's age and gender. The chapter reviews data from the youth survey of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). It outlines the literature review, a form of capital approach is adopted to explore and explain die relationships between parental employment patterns, and other factors, and young people's emotional well-being. The chapter suggests that parental employment improves the emotional well-being of children and young people, and that this operates through a mechanism of improved income and socioeconomic circumstances.
