Maybe my perception is skewed, but I imagine most American politicians' children being in their 20's to 30's.

Edit: Apparently wikipedia really does have a page for everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_S...

Our President's kids are 11 & 14. Sure that is just one case but I also imagine current generation of politicians is on the edge of a more recent trend to have kids later in life (not counting the other trend of having kids at age 14).

Obama is only older than 15 or so of the 100 senators. As far as American politics go, he is quite young.

While I suppose Congressmen may make their voting decisions based on what games their kids like to play, I'd hope they'd consider other factors.

I would like that as well, but sadly a lot of U.S. politics seems to be based on personal factors these days...