Joe Biden and Jill Biden welcomed daughter Ashley, their lone kid together, connected June 9, 1981.

She attended Tulane and got her master's grade successful societal enactment from University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice successful 2010. She became a societal worker with the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, aft which she spent much than 7 years arsenic subordinate manager of the Delaware Center for Justice. 

She founded the covering brand Livelihood successful 2017, partnering with Gilt connected a enactment of hoodies that sold out, to rise money for assemblage programs focused connected eliminating income inequality. The logo is an LH being pierced by an arrow—a tribute to her precocious brother, Beau Biden.

It's a notation to however "we person to sometimes beryllium pulled each the mode down to sprout forward," Ashley explained to The Lily successful June 2020. "He was my bow. His crab brought maine to my knees. I had nary prime but to sprout forward, support going, support aiming astatine my ain dreams." Naturally, her begetter was astatine New York Fashion Week to support her erstwhile she debuted the garment.

"I'm highly arrogant of her," Joe told E! News astatine the NYFW event, flashing a immense grin. "She's been trying to alteration the satellite since she's been 3 years old, and I think she's going to bash it."

In an interrogation with Today, Ashley said she would not have a occupation successful her father's administration, but planned to usage her level "to advocator for societal justice, for intelligence health, to beryllium progressive successful assemblage improvement and revitalization. I bash anticipation to bring consciousness and acquisition to immoderate subjects that are truly important."

Ashley Biden met her husband—a integrative surgeon, prof of otolaryngology and main aesculapian serviceman of the task superior steadfast StartUp Health—through Beau.

Howard asked his aboriginal father-in-law for his support (granted) and popped the question atop a cliff successful Big Sur, Calif., astatine sunset. He and Ashley joined successful June 2012 astatine the aforesaid Catholic religion successful Delaware wherever she was baptized and they unrecorded successful Philadelphia.

"I deliberation to myself, aw, God, my small girl! This can't person passed truthful quick," the begetter of the bride told People before the wedding. But, helium added, "This is the close guy. And he's getting a helluva woman."

Joe invokes his precocious son, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, frequently, the erstwhile Army large and two-term Delaware lawyer general's courageousness and devotion to his household inactive an inspiration to his father. Beau died of glioblastoma successful 2015, which influenced the still-grieving vice president's choice not to tally for president successful 2016—but besides his determination to spell for it successful 2020.

"I wanted to observe Beau's beingness and the radical helium touched," Joe told the New York Times in 2017, explaining the information down his memoir Promise Me, Dad. "Beau had a strict codification of honor. That whitethorn dependable silly, but it's true. My Dad had an expression: 'Never explicate and ne'er complain.' I ne'er erstwhile heard Beau complain. Not once."

Joe continued, "One night, erstwhile it was wide that the likelihood weren't good, helium asked maine to enactment aft meal astatine his house, astir a mile from here. He said: 'Dad, I cognize you emotion maine much than anyone successful the world. But committedness maine you'll beryllium O.K. I'll beryllium O.K., Dad.' He had travel look to look with his mortality. He watched maine spell done the nonaccomplishment of his parent and sister. And helium didn't privation maine to crook inward. He didn't privation maine to springiness up connected the robustness of life."

In his eulogy for his brother, Hunter recalled his archetypal representation of Beau: Waking up successful the infirmary adjacent to him successful 1972 aft the car wreck that killed their ma and sister.

Joe told the New York Times successful 2017, "Hunt had a skull fracture, astir each bony successful his assemblage was broken. And Beau, conscionable 4, successful the adjacent bed, held his manus and kept saying: 'Hunt, I emotion you. Look astatine me. I emotion you, I emotion you, I emotion you.' At the ceremonial Hunt said successful 42 years that 'he has ne'er stopped holding my hand.'"

On Jan. 19, helium spoke astatine the National Guard/Army Reserve halfway named aft his lad earlier leaving for Washington, D.C., expressing however arrogant helium was to beryllium "a lad of Delaware. And I americium adjacent much arrogant to beryllium lasting present doing this from the Major Beau Biden facility. Ladies and gentlemen, I lone person 1 regret: He's not here. Because we should beryllium introducing him arsenic president." 

Beau married Hallie Biden (née Olivere) successful 2002. They welcomed girl Natalie Naomi Biden (her mediate sanction paying tribute to Beau's precocious sister) successful 2004 and lad Robert Hunter Biden II in 2006.

The 4 of them lived with Joe and Jill for a twelvemonth portion they were gathering a location nearby. "I wished they'd ne'er move," Joe recalled to the New York Times.

After Beau died, Hallie's dada Ron Olivere, told Delaware's News Journal in 2015 that Joe Biden consulted his girl archetypal earlier helium made immoderate determination astir whether to tally for president successful 2016. "He did sermon this with family," Olivere said. "He discussed it with my girl and her effect was, 'Pop, we're down you each the way. We're down you 100 percent.'"

The president-elect's younger son—born Robert Hunter Biden—who has been candid astir his assorted idiosyncratic struggles, including his conflict with cause addiction. He became a arguable people of his father's governmental opponents and is currently nether national investigation for imaginable taxation offenses.

With headlines swirling, Hunter steered wide of astir of his father's run events successful 2020, adjacent earlier COVID rendered truthful overmuch of the cognition virtual oregon social-distanced.

"Beau and I person been determination since we were carried successful baskets during his archetypal campaign," Hunter told the New Yorker in 2019. "We went everyplace with him. At each azygous large lawsuit and each tiny lawsuit that had to bash with his governmental career, I was there. I've ne'er missed a rally for my dad. The conception that I'm not lasting adjacent to him successful Philadelphia, adjacent to the Rocky statue, it's heartbreaking for me. It's sidesplitting maine and it's sidesplitting him. Dad says, 'Be here.' Mom says, 'Be here.' But astatine what cost?"

But yet the bulk of the American people wanted Joe Biden to beryllium the president careless of immoderate past wrongdoings oregon salacious theories astir his family, and Hunter—who spoke remotely during the Democratic National Convention successful August, erstwhile Joe officially accepted the nomination—was close determination successful idiosyncratic connected Nov. 7 for his dad's triumph code successful Wilmington.

Not that Hunter earned his stock of scandalous headlines.

The Yale Law School graduate married Kathleen Buhle successful 1993 and they person 3 daughters together: Naomi, born successful 1993 and Joe's eldest grandchild; Finnegan, calved successful 1998; and Maisy, calved successful 2001. The longtime mates divided up successful 2015 and divorced successful 2017, with Kathleen citing cause usage and infidelity among her husband's shortcomings successful her divorcement filing. 

Hunter went connected to person a narration with Hallie, his brother's widow. "Hallie and I are incredibly fortunate to person recovered the emotion and enactment we person for each different successful specified a hard time, and that's been evident to the radical who emotion america most," helium said successful a statement to Page Six when that quality got out. "We've been truthful fortunate to person household and friends who person supported america each measurement of the way."

Then, in 2019, helium was sued for child enactment by Lunden Alexis Roberts, who claimed Hunter was the begetter of her child—referred to successful tribunal documents by the initials NJR—born successful August 2018. Hunter astatine archetypal denied having a intersexual narration with the woman, but successful January 2020 an Arkansas justice signed disconnected connected an bid of paternity, a DNA trial having proven that helium was the child's biologic dad. Hunter subsequently agreed to wage an undisclosed magnitude of monthly kid support, according to CNBC.

In May 2019, Hunter joined Melissa Cohen, a documentary filmmaker from South Africa, successful a rooftop ceremonial successful Los Angeles aft a whirlwind courtship. Case successful point: According to the New Yorker, conscionable days aft their archetypal date, Hunter had "shalom" (Hebrew for hello, goodbye and peace) tattooed connected the wrong of his near bicep to lucifer 1 that Melissa has. And past a fewer days after that, helium proposed.

Then they tied the knot, each successful the aforesaid month.

After the ceremony, Hunter told the magazine, "I called my dada and said that we conscionable got married. He was connected speaker, and helium said to her, 'Thank you for giving my lad the courageousness to emotion again.' And helium said to me, 'Honey, I knew that erstwhile you recovered emotion again that I'd get you back.' And my reply was, I said, 'Dad, I ever had love. And the lone happening that allowed maine to spot it was the information that you ne'er gave up connected me, you ever believed successful me.'"

Joe told Anderson Cooper during a virtual CNN municipality hall in March, earlier grandbaby No. 6 was born, "Every azygous day, I talk to each 5 of my grandkids. Either connected the phone, oregon I substance with them."

Natalie and Robert lived nearby, he shared, and—with societal distancing the bid of the day—"we beryllium connected our backmost structure and they beryllium retired connected the tract with 2 chairs there, and we speech astir everything that is going connected successful their day. And speech astir being location from school. And who's driving whom crazy, and truthful on."

Naomi Biden, who graduated from Columbia Law School successful the summertime of 2020, tweeted retired a photo of the 5 older grandkids hugging their grandpa erstwhile they recovered retired helium had won the statesmanlike predetermination connected the greeting of Nov. 7.

Her pinned tweet, from Oct. 22, reads, "Anyone who wants to get to @JoeBiden, volition person to get past america first...We whitethorn not look intimidating, but remember, our Nana is @DrBiden..."

In it's a tiny satellite aft each news, Naomi and archetypal daughter Tiffany Trump were undergraduates at University of Pennsylvania unneurotic (future President Donald Trump and aboriginal President-Elect Joe Biden some attended the graduation successful 2016), and Tiffany shared a photograph of herself and Naomi hanging retired successful the Hamptons in the summertime of 2018. 

Joe is the eldest of 4 siblings, and sister Valerie Biden Owens has been a acquainted fig connected (all the) run trails successful her brother's life. In fact, she's been his closest governmental advisor for astir fractional a century.

"We each cognize him arsenic a large talker," she told Axios in an interrogation aft her large member was declared the victor of the 2020 election. "I mean: There goes Biden again—as I'm doing close now—talking and talking. But my brother's adjacent a amended listener."

Asked what she'd telephone him erstwhile helium officially became president, Valerie said, "Joey. Joe." Or, "if helium calls maine First Sister, I'll telephone him Mr. President."