Befriending
- Providing supportive relationships
- Cultivating friendship
- Providing friendliness
- Making friends
- Being friendly
- Promoting friendship
Description
Developing relationships with people based on mutual affection, spiritual closeness and common interests. These relationships are often characterized by voluntariness and individual selectivity.
Claim
Having friends is seen by many to be important, if not necessary, to healthy individual development.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway (Jerome Cummings).
Counter-claim
Befriending is an escape into emotional dependency.
Befriending a great number of people may result in being close to no one.
Befriending is a one-on-one activity, and thus very energy consuming.
Befriending is a skill that not everyone performs very well.
Befriending creates dependence on the part of both giver and receiver, and its cost is never clear from the beginning.
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Problem
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SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(A) Abstract fundamental strategies
Subject
Agriculture, fisheries » Cultivation
Communication » Promotion
Health care » Care
Social activity » Friendship
Content quality
Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Nov 28, 2022