Our Presidential Hopefuls Don’t Have ‘Traditional’ Families, and It Matters

If you have any doubt about what today’s families look like, just look to the Democratic presidential hopefuls. One is in a child-free same-sex marriage; one has never married; one married for the first time at age 50; a few have been married and divorced, some more than once; some have blended families; one is in a mixed-race marriage; some are female breadwinners with stay-at-home husbands, and one — just one — has what many consider a “traditional” marriage — he works while she works in the home, and whose kids are being raised by parents in their first marriage. All hoping to compete against a president who has been married three times, divorced twice, and has children with each of his wives — the second divorced president in our history.

Do you see yourself in any of those descriptions? I sure do.

That’s because, we’re increasingly no longer a one-size-fits-all family type.

And that’s a good thing.

We just need policies to support those various family types.

As Family Story’s newly released report, The Case Against Marriage Fundamentalism: Embracing Family Justice for All, (which I am honored to have provided some input for) indicates:

“Today, only 48 percent of households…