On August 27, 1966, while in law school, Biden married Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York.[2][17] They had met in 1964 while on spring break in the Bahamas, and he had overcome her parents' initial reluctance for her to be dating a Roman Catholic.[18] They had three children, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III (born 1969), Robert Hunter (born 1970), and Naomi Christina (born 1971).[2]