President Biden says
the first lady
, his second wife, “put us back together”, when he was left widowed with two sons. Harris’s
twenty-something stepchildren, Cole and Ella, meanwhile, have affectionately dubbed her
“Momala”, with Ella describing her as the “rock” of their “big, blended family”. President Joe Biden is congratulated by first lady Jill Biden and children, Ashley and Hunter, after being sworn in as president .AFP
If stepmothers were in need of a rebrand from the scheming villains oft portrayed in fairy tales and films, it seems there are no better women for the job.
The stepmother stereotype