self-worth• Threats to our sense of dignity and self-worth, and to our authority or control over a situation.• How can we increase the awareness of self-worth of our black children.• Basictrust is necessary to developinnersecurity and a feeling of self-worth.• Second, it can enhance their feelings of self-worth and esteem.• Their feelings of self-worth were higher than they had been during the child-rearing period.• Nevertheless, the Guildsucceeded in imbuing its members with a firm sense of self-worth and purpose.• Without work, meaningful or not, a man or a woman can lose the precious sense of self-worth.• When self-worth is gone, so goes the power to face problems and to solve them.