The nation's households are more diverse than ever, and that's evident on the presidential campaign trail.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, right, hugs his husband, Chasten Glezman, in his office on Dec. 17, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — One is in a same-sex marriage. Another has never been down the aisle. Others are on second spouses, or in pairings in which the wife is the breadwinner and the husband stays home.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who broke precedent in other critical ways as presidential candidates, hewed to traditional marital and parenting roles. But outside the White House, American families have been changing. Beto O'Rourke, despite his counterculture past as a hacker and punk rocker, is the only candidate among the eight best-known 2020 Democratic contenders with a"conventional" family — and he got in trouble for joking about it in Iowa, saying his wife was back home raising their three young children"sometimes with my help."
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