American researchers have come to the paradoxical conclusion that in order to reduce poverty it is necessary to popularize friendship between children from families with different financial status. They believe that this will not generate social conflicts and will not increase the level of envy.
Several dozen American researchers have studied friendships between richer and poorer children. It has been established that friendships formed in early childhood have a positive effect on increasing the incomes of the poor in the future. Thus, the level of poverty or poverty is reduced. This is further proof of how profitable it is to have well-to-do friends. In addition, evidence has been obtained that emerging social networks and social ties are effective models for saving people from poverty.
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Different countries have different social elevators , that is, the ability of a person from a low-income family to succeed in material terms and achieve a certain well-being. The lower the level of social interaction between classes, the less such opportunities for upward mobility of income, as the authors of the study emphasize. They observed how people form interclass relationships and how this affects the economic mobility of their children.
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Of course, it is not always possible to achieve friendship between a child from a poor family and peers from wealthy families. But if such friendly relations develop, for example, in kindergarten or at school, as well as in other groups, then they should not be interrupted in any case. On the contrary, they need to be indulged and not be afraid that envy will develop in children from low-income families. (READ MORE)