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In this thesis, the factors threatening everyday life time of families is being examined. The research questios are: how these threats are being defined on the research literature and to what kind of discussion these threats are connected in terms of social sciences and home economics. The theoretical framework of the study includes definition of everyday life, management of everyday life, concept of time, definitions of Finnish families and negative factors affecting family life. Especially the theory of managing everyday life including value choices of family members is strongly linked to the topic of the thesis. This study is a systematic literature review, based on research reports. Literature was collected from the library databases of the University of Helsinki using search words and bibliographies of literature. Altogether 15 studies were included to the review. Four different themes were found describing the time in which the challenges may occur: everyday life time, work time, free time and rhytms and management of everyday life. The aim was to get an overview from the studies and to find research trends on the topic. The results of the literature review show, that the word ”threat” was not used, instead, words like ”challenges” and ”difficulties” were often used. In every theme, the research was connected to the present public discussion. In terms of everyday life time, haste and business was the leading factor causing problems in the families. Many parents feel that the are constantly busy in their lives. Research reports that were included under the work time theme show, that combining work and family life was not posing threaths to families. However, significant factor in time use of families was the amount of parents working hours. Research reports show that during the free time, housework was shared quite evenly between spouses, and uneven distribution of housework duties was not a threat to the family time. Media however, has a significant role in affecting everyday life time sometimes negatively. At the same time, media connects families to the society. According to the research literature, rythms and management of everyday life may be threathened by chaos at home and unstrucured time use, even if there is time to be spent.