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Friendship: Children
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Friendship needs time, space and material resources to develop and will be impacted upon by the particular social environment and setting in which it arises. The nature of friendship among older people has excited a significant amount of scholarly attention - not surprisingly by gerontologists. Friendship is of great significance to older people - as partners and relatives die, friends play an increasingly important role in people's lives. This is especially the case where the person does not have children - or where they live at a significant distance. Club-going and associational life emerges as a strong feature of such friendship - and opens up wider networks into which pairs of friends can integrate (Jerome quoted by Pahl 2000: 137).
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In the Western world, intimate physical contact has been sexualised in the public mind over the last one hundred years and is considered almost taboo in friendship, especially between two males. However, stylized hugging or kissing may be considered acceptable, depending on the context (see, for example, the kiss the tramp gives the kid in The Kid). In Spain and other Mediterranean countries men may embrace each other in public and kiss each other on the cheek. This is not limited solely to older generations but rather is present throughout all generations. In young children throughout the modern western world, friendship, usually of a homosocial nature, typically exhibits elements of a closeness and intimacy suppressed later in life in order to conform to societal standards.
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At the root of these questions concerning the relationship between friendship and morality is the idea that friendship involves special duties: duties for specific people that arise out of the relationship of friendship. Thus, it seems that we have obligations to aid and support our friends that go well beyond those we have to help strangers because they are our friends, much like we parents have special duties to aid and support our children because they are our children. Indeed, Annis (1987) suggests, such duties “are constitutive of the relationship” of friendship (352). Given this, the question arises as to what the relationship is between such special duties of friendship and other duties, in particular moral duties: can our obligations to our friends sometimes trump our moral duties, or must we always subordinate our personal relationships to morality in order to be properly impartial (as, it might be thought, morality demands)?
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VUKOVAR, 6 September 2006 - A children\'s literary and art competition aiming to promote co-existence and friendship in the Danube Region opened today in Vukovar. [more]', WIDTH, 300, RIGHT)" onMouseOut="nd();" href='subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=17411&head=hl&site=4' class='link'>OSCE Mission to Croatia and Education Ministry organize children's art contest to promote co-existence and friendship
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