Case for Comma

There are two or more sides to most questions of syntax and punctuation, but I think this caption illustrates the usefulness of the Oxford comma.

Photograph of a severe-looking woman with a plump baby in her lap, a young boy with lederhosen (?) and a man with tousled, dark hair: Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, and their progeny.
The caption reads ‘Elizabeth Anscombe with her husband, Peter Geach, and their first two children by M. C. Gormally.’

Source (whose headline would benefit from disambiguation)

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