Behind a half-closed door inside a basement apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, year-old Aella pads across a fading white carpet. As she sets up a chair in the middle of the room, a black cat slinks across the windowsill. She moves to stand in front of her laptop, which has a Logitech Brio camera clipped to the top. Two lopsided circles of string lights hang on the wall behind the screen, bathing her in a soft white glow. Eastern Standard Time, and Aella tugs up her stockings, then hops from one foot to another, shakes out her hands, rolls her neck and tosses her hair. Three days later, in a sparsely decorated bedroom in Nampa, Idaho, year-old Gerard sits cross-legged on her bed.
that's a very good point you've brought up. I hadn't even considered a two mom or two dad household! but yeah - a kid who lives in what society would call an "atypical" household - does that exclude them, would the child auto-exclude him/herself, etc?