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3 generations of family mothers discuss the joys, pains, and the overall experience of motherhood.

In this interview conducted by Isaac Morales conducted on November 14 2020 we learn about his mother’s past. Norma Parra tells his son about what her life was when she was younger and how it made her who she is.

I (Kira Leavitt) talked to Marcia Via my grandma about our family and her childhood. I also asked her about advice for the future.

A mom’s perspective on raising 5 kids.

Beth and Julie tell Karen about falling in love at Oberlin College, moving to California and later Chicago for graduate school, finding a welcoming Episcopalian church, having a ceremony, beginning their journey to have children during the AIDS epidemic, becoming...

My mother, Alma Palafox, talks about her life experience as a working single mother and a child of immigrant parents. The interview is significant to me because of the important parenting advice she shared with me during the time of...

This is an interview about growing up in foster care, family, and community involvement.

Jane Clemmer shares about being the only girl growing up, blind dates that turn into life long marriages, and the importance of family and friends. Stories about her children and grandchild are not only meaningful, but delightful.

My mom talked about different things. Some that I heard already and some that i hadn’t.

I interviewed my grandmother on Thanksgiving, and listened to her as she talked to me about her motherhood, faith and childhood

Kevin Gluck (49) talks with his mother, Anne Perdue (74) about her life

Jillian Wilson (42) talks with her birth mother, Susan Peters (57) about her experience of motherhood, from being a birth mother to an adoptive parent, and how their relationship has grown after reuniting.

Two friends, and long time residents of South OC, chat about the emotional labor, challenges, and solutions for homelessness in south OC.

Korean American Christian girl from Orange County grows up and finds herself working in Skid Row

My mom talks about her jobs, putting my dad through school, cars, motherhood and the IRS.

In this interview I sat down to talk with my mother about her childhood and why she decided to come to the U.S for a better life. She spoke to me about some of her struggles growing up and how...

Going in depth in my mother’s childhood and life!

We talked about life lessons, people who were kind, happiest memories, love, how her time of growing up was so different than for kids now, and Verl Clausen

This is an interview with my grandmother also known as Nana. We talk about her life moving from Canada to the United States, raising children, how much life has changed, and what she hopes for the future.

Peggy talked to her mom Marcia about her experience being a parent.

Sedrick (22) and his sister Ruth (27) discuss First Step Communities, an organization that works with the homeless in order to find them homes in Sacramento, CA.

In this interview, conducted in April 2023 in Anaheim, California, Donya Zanjani (20) interviews her mom and Farah Zanjani (63) about her childhood in Iran. She also talks about her struggles with her arranged marriage and gives advice on motherhood,...

Veteran and Single Father of 3, Eugene Reece (40) speaks with Al Lejarde (37) on how the Easterseals Bob Hope Veteran Support Program assisted Eugene navigate out of homelessness and unemployment during the Holidays back in 2019.

My dad has experienced a hard life, with his mother an alcoholic and not conscious during his childhood and his dad who died when he was 4. Growing up in LA had its hardships

A mother's life is her young ones. Erika Gonzalez is a dedicated mother of 4 youngsters. Interview by her daughter Madison Holden, Erika gave some information about her kids and her life as a mother. Erika couldn't consider anything she...