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?

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Loving Dad with his daughter

We are dedicated to the development of presumptive shared parenting laws in all 50 States in the United States.  It is our belief that children deserve the love and dedication of both of their natural parents, and that the preservation of the parent-child bond is equally as important as the financial support of the child.

Children deserve to live in a household that meets all of their daily requirements.  This can only be met when all of their daily needs are met.  One can say that a child is half of each parent, yet we accept that it is okay for a child to be raised by only one parent.  We believe this only allows a child to be half of what they are capable of.