&gt; It seems what is needed but not present is a strong lobby for middle class families. Everyone pays lip service because they&#x27;re a large voting block, but where is the equivalent of the AARP or NRA for families with children.<p>NRA is a narrow, single-issue lobby, not a general lobby for interests of a broad demographic (which even &quot;middle-class families with children&quot; is.)<p>And, really, everyone pays sort of vague lip service because its a <i>large demographic</i>, but no more than that because <i>its not a large voting bloc</i>. Particularly, its not a group that has a common set of policy preferences and consistently votes predominantly based on that shared set of preferences.<p>Its not like there aren&#x27;t lobbying organizations that promote themselves as promoting the interests of &quot;families with children&quot;; but none of them really represents the majority of that demographic, because there is no clear voting bloc to represent.