This summer, thousands of young people have taken to the streets in Nairobi to protest the Kenyan government. But behind those protestors are thousands of worried parents.

Ira talks about what it’s like to go back to 1119 Bayard Street in Baltimore. (6 minutes)

John Fecile talks to his brother, Pat, about a list their other brother made before he died.

Editor Bethel Habte examines video evidence of two parents trying to get to the bottom of a minor crime committed in their own home. (7 minutes)

Ira tells the stories of three things that broke–two of them in his own family. (8 minutes)

A family sits down to discuss one thing.

There are many kids who do not gradually discover that grown ups don’t have a handle on everything.  These kids already know. Miriam Toews’s novel, “Fight Night,” is about a nine-year-old named Swiv who takes care of her grandma and manages her mom’s mental health struggles.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka moved suddenly from Japan to the U.S. when she was eight years old, and has long joked that it was because her grandmother kidnapped her from her dad. But she'd never talked to anyone in her family about what had actually happened. (31 minutes) Tickets for Atsuko’s comedy tour at atsukocomedy.com.

Luka’s parents – Nadia and Karen – try to figure out where to take him once war breaks out. (6 minutes)

Abby Stein’s youngest sister got married last month, the last of 13 kids in their family.

Megan Tan never felt close to her father. For years they’ve been distant.

Ira talks to author Etgar Keret about his mom, and the stories she used to tell him when she put him to sleep.  He explains why it's always been so hard to write about her.

Ira Glass introduces Nancy Updike, one of This American Life's founding producers.

Comedian Zarna Garg tells jokes onstage about the extreme ways she tries to control her daughter Zoya’s life.

Chris Benderev speaks with writer Georgie Codd, who went searching for someone to be the father she never had.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.