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Big Brothers Big Sisters screens and trains volunteers to provide children from single-parent homes with a relationship that provides friendship, guidance, acceptance and mentoring. The long-term mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is to bring the magic of mentoring to 1 million children by 2010. Today, BBBS serves more than 200,000 youngsters, age 5-18, nationwide.
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A growing body of research since the mid-1970s questions the relationship between the phenomenon of friendship and particular moral theories. Thus, many (Stocker 1976, 1981;Blum 1980, 1993; Wilcox 1987; Friedman 1989, 1993; Badhwar 1991; Cocking & Oakley 1995) have criticized consequentialist and deontological moral theories on the grounds that they are somehow incompatible with friendship and the kind of reasons and motives that friendship provides. Often, the appeal to friendship is intended to bypass traditional disputes among major types of moral theories (consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics), and so the “friendship critique” may seem especially important and interesting.
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