recent first families

The Kids Are All Right
By GAIL COLLINS
Chelsea Clinton’s approaching wedding day gives us occasion to celebrate successful children from recent first families.



recent
adj.

1. Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
2. Modern; new.
3. Recent Geology. Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch.

[Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-.]

recency re'cen·cy or re'cent·ness n.
recently re'cent·ly adv.