An article in the Des Moines Register really hit the nail on the head with regards to the use of children in the next presidential campaign and how it is so transparent and superficial.  The presidential campaigners are engaged in getting their face in as many pictures with kids as possible, using them like pawns in a political game of no benefit to these kids.

It's not like any of them are proposing something that would benefit these kids.  Maybe superficially, but at the same time, our kids are failing in record proportions.  Our families are failing at record proportions, and our laws and courts only exacerbate the issues by dividing up families like cattle, separating the bulls from the pen holding the calves with their mothers.  And really, isn't that what it is truly like?