Conservative group launches effort to create an ‘NRA for families'

A conservative group is launching a new effort to create a "Big Family" lobby to pressure politicians to vote for families' interests in Washington D.C. and across the country -- the same way the National Rifle Association fights for gun owners.

Founder Terry Schilling told Fox News in an interview that, while there were plenty of family groups doing work on research, legislation and education, he saw a lack of a political arm "that would come in and kick the s--- out of people when they hurt the family, and that's what we wanted to change because that's where the left was making so much progress." After a year that saw schools shuttered in many states for most of the year under pressure from powerful teachers unions, efforts to allow males to participate in girls sports if they identify as transgender and a fight over the teaching of the radical critical race theory in schools, issues related to the family and schools have energized many conservatives.