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JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS
How Do We Build Self-Esteem in Girls Before They Age Out of Foster Care?
Author(s): Gardenia Burks
Citation: Gardenia Burks, (2013) "How Do We Build Self-Esteem in Girls Before They Age Out of Foster Care?," Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, Vol. 10, Iss.1, pp. 121 - 130
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
With a myriad of speculations on how self-esteem may be formed in girls journeying through and exiting
the foster care system no research claims an absolute time when self-esteem is formed. There are
inferences to multiple causes playing pivotal roles in identifying how girls view themselves and their
worth laying the groundwork for self-esteem, not only as children, but as they move towards adulthood.
Because phenomenological studies seek the human experience as described by the participants, studies
framed around this research method may present more accurate information as opposed to literature
written by those never being part of foster care.
