The different styles of living within cultures are both admirable and distant, leaving a large gap for misunderstanding. I want to  keep culture and diversity alive while closing the gap of cultural disrespect misunderstanding. Medical practices are performed in various ways all across the world. More often than not, the differences in practices are scrutinized before they are understood. I want to create change by exposing the difference in cultural traditions, and the reasoning and beliefs that support them.

I believe this topic is important because the COVID-19 pandemic affected the entire world, forcing many people to isolate themselves within their homes. Children faced the transition out of their classroom environments to online zoom courses, losing their opportunity to socialize with peers and create new relationships. Since technology has played an overwhelming role in the past two decades, with social media platforms growing everyday, many children found comfort in their own devices and the online world. And because of this, it is important to understand how children have been impacted, and whether social media has influenced the way they, and even the rest of the world, socialize with one another face-to-face. 

As we always hear about traumatic exposure in childhood can lead to lifelong physical and mental health consequences.I am interested in finding more regarding this major public health issue. This article describes how childhood trauma exposure (adverse childhood experiences) and toxic stress will affect the children's brain and body growth. The adverse childhood experiences or traumas that include childhood emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, domestic violence, domestic substance abuse, family mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and crime family member. 

I think it's important for parents/caregivers to know that early identification of trauma exposure coupled with appropriate intervention can assist in the prevention of lifelong consequences for victims. Enhancing

resilience is important for all children and is crucial for children exposed to trauma.

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The article describes a negative cycle of mental illness and poverty. This means that people living in poverty are at risk of developing mental illness, while people with mental illness fall into or remain in poverty. Furthermore, poverty increases the risk of mental illness through various social factors. The article also assesses the impact of poverty alleviation interventions on the outcomes of mental, neurological, and substance abuse disorders among low-income people. Moreover, they also assessed the impact of mental health interventions on the economic well-being of poor individuals and families.

I think this topic is important. If interventions on poverty or people's mental health are effective, we can break the negative cycle of mental illness and poverty. It can improve the living standard of the whole society.

Keywords: Poverty, children and effects. I picked this topic to look up because I feel like this topic is something that people may find hard to talk about as we do not want to label people or children as poor. But knowing if a child is born into poverty and seeing what effects it has on them we can provide early interventions, access to programs to get out of this and so that it does not continue for future generations.

Affordable child care is an important topic for CAD and ECE students/workers to address. The need for child care is increasing as many parents are transitioning back into pre-COVID office/in-person work. Many parents work 9-5 jobs and perhaps even more than one job in order to afford rent and pay the bills. Typical child care costs more than $1000. When families are living paycheck to paycheck that is a ridiculously high price.

If parents can not afford care, they can not work and if they can not work, they can not pay rent or bills. This creates and continues a cycle of poverty. 

Income inequality on Asian is an important topic for CAD. The families depend on the families's income to survive in America. Even when parents are working a 9-5 jobs, sometimes it is not enough to support the family. It is important to be aware of these inequality to try to solve the problems. This topic also interest me because I am Asian. And I can relate to the topic.