Cultivating Care: How & Why Young People Participate in Civic Life
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Cultivating Care shows how adults can exemplify and foster the care young people crave to raise the next generation of civic-minded citizens.
This report provides a data-driven understanding of what young people seek, believe in, and trust in civic life — and what (or whom) they don’t. It will shape how adults activate civic participation with emerging generations.
Democracy depends on the next generation: this report charts a path forward.
The data was surprising. More than half of young people do not identify with a major political party. They don’t trust political institutions. They avoid calling themselves political because they associate it with negativity in the media, families, and friendships.
But yet they care. Deeply. About issues like education, the economy, climate change, and more. Their values, religion, and spirituality provide a framework for how to interpret social issues–more so than politics frames their values, young people say.
Cultivating Care shows how adults can exemplify and foster the care young people crave to raise the next generation of civic-minded citizens. This report provides a data-driven understanding of what young people seek, believe in, and trust in civic life — and what (or whom) they don’t. It will shape how adults activate civic participation with emerging generations. Democracy depends on the next generation: this report charts a path forward.
