The objective of this blog is to tell my colleagues about a topic I have chosen to research and why I have chosen this particular topic. The topic I chose to research is poverty. I chose this particular topic, because it affects so many children and their families. So many children in the United States live in poverty and are not being able to get the necessary basic life necessities needed to survive on a day to day basis. This is also a topic that is close and personal to me. It is close and personal to me, because I spent many years when I was growing up in a housing project, I became a single mother at the age of 18. By age 23, I was the single mother of 3 children. I struggled for many years only making pennies about minimum wage. However, education and faith were the two driving forces that helped me to make it to wear I am now. I think that if provisions are made to help and inform families, then many of young children can be helped out of poverty. As I continue to build on this topic through out this course, I have chosen subtopics such as what are the causes of poverty, poverty's affect on young children, and how do we help children and families overcome poverty. As early childhood educators understanding poverty helps to make us prepared and knowledgeable. We need to be prepared and knowledgeable because it helps us to know how to better help these children and families and to teach them as well.