Look to vice presidential nominee J.D.

Vances stance onchildless cat ladies.

(Spoiler: He doesnt like them!)

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Helena Hudlin, goddaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, Ella Emhoff, daughter of second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Vice President Kamala Harris and Meena Harris, niece of Vice President Kamala Harris depart after speaking on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

All of this offered a complex, diverse, and happy-seeming family tableau.

It might not look like what Vance would consider family, but it does mirror agrowing shiftin American demographics.

Weve spent long enough elevating the white, cis, straight, mom-dad-and-2.5-kids vision of family.

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' grandnieces Amara (R) and Leila (L) listen as Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention.

Maybe its time for the rest of us to see ourselves in political circles.