{"title":"Parenthood and Civic Engagement","authors":"Esther Muddiman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tgqh.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tgqh.10","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, Esther Muddiman draws on qualitative data from interviews with 20 parents of teenagers to explore how parenthood disrupts, complements and triggers various types of civic engagement. The chapter describes how becoming a parent can limit an individual’s ability to maintain their commitment to existing voluntary activities/associational memberships, disrupting previous ties to civil society. However, it also finds that parenthood provides new opportunities for engagement, especially via educational institutions and parental networks; and that the transition to parenthood itself can lead individuals to reflect on their own relationship to society and the values that they would like to pass on to their children: the desire to role-model ‘good citizenship’ within the family home can act as a gateway for participation in civically-minded practices.","PeriodicalId":215378,"journal":{"name":"Civil Society through the Lifecourse","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115196822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaving a legacy for civil society","authors":"R. Powell","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tgqh.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tgqh.14","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, Rhian Powell examines the perspectives and priorities of older people when thinking about the legacy they will leave after their death. She draws on semi-structured interviews with twenty-two people willing to discuss whether or not they intend to leave a legacy gift to charity in their will. The research shows that decisions to leave a charitable bequest are complex and require the donor to balance a number of potentially competing obligations – particularly between the family, civil society and the state. When participants think about their inheritance, considerations about these competing institutions are strongly connected and consequently how participants think about one will affect their views on the others. For this reason, it is impossible to only discuss participants’ attitudes towards civil society without also considering their attitudes towards family and the state.","PeriodicalId":215378,"journal":{"name":"Civil Society through the Lifecourse","volume":" 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113947318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}