"Under the Same Moon"

Rosario chose to leave her son, Carlitos, in Mexico with his grandmother while she lived and worked in Los Angeles for four years.  She wanted to give her son and her mother a better life, so she moved to where she would be able to earn a living and sent the money back to Mexico to help her family.

Rosario made the decision to live and work in the United States for very unselfish reasons.  She wanted to provide for her son and did so the best way she knew how.  This movie showed that it was extremely difficult for Rosario to be away from her son.  From the weekly phone calls from a pay phone, in which she fought back tears, to not seeming to ever really allow herself to enjoy life because she was always so sad about being away from her family.  

Carlitos faced many problems being away from his mother.  He went through many different emotions as he tried to understand exactly why his mother couldn't be with him, from anger to heart-wrenching sadness, and extreme courage and determination.  After his grandmother died, Carlitos faced a new problem of not really having a place to call home, which was probably one of the reasons he decided to make the trip across the border in search of his mom.  

It is hard to say whether a mother in the United States would make the same choice that Rosario did.  A mother would obviously not need to cross the border, but more likely she may need to move across several states to find work.  I don't really think many mothers in America would go to the extreme that Rosario did to provide for her son.  It's hard to make a generalization about all mothers in the US, because there really is such a broad range in how mothers in this country act and care for their children and families.