Grad-parent: Mother and son graduate from UC Irvine on same day

Faith Couts always dreamed of pursuing a college degree, but “the timing was never right.”

Couts, 50, had her first child during her senior year in high school and enrolled in community college in Las Vegas.

But being a single parent was “overwhelming” and college faded out of the picture as Couts worked to support her growing family, which includes her