Starting points
The paradoxical positioning of the family and civil society
The challenges of researching the ‘private sphere’ of the family
The uncertain business of raising citizens
Keeping the faith? Secularisation, the family and civic engagement
Mothers, grandmothers and civic engagement
Family arguments: finding one’s voice
Politicising family food practices
The upward transmission of civic ‘virtues’
Reframing civil society and the family