Santorum has a lovely, loving family any man would be proud of.....
..and no doubt, if Gingrich had the same, he would be showing them off too!
albeit, Gingrich has Calista, and she's never far from his side :^)
The visual of Santorum flanked by his kids rubs some of us the wrong way because it's blatant political exploitation of children. I was going to ask, rhetorically, "Don't they go to school?," but then I realized how silly that would be because Santorum "home schools" even if they took over $70,000 from a local PA school district while living in VA--a scandal that helped sink him in 2006.
Some of it is to be expected but Santorum uses it as a crutch, a prop. It would behoove his supporters to look more closely, to vet him fully and not fall for a Norman Rockwell visual.