The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support.
As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.
The campaigns are buying up AD space, so you'll see more commercials on more channels, and their running mates, wives and families are doing all they can to get supporters to vote on November 6.
In other words, the arguments both for and against government funding of the arts are as many and, and as varied as the individual styles of the artists who hold them.
Sceptics and advocates alike do concur on one issue, however: that the most impressive evidence so far has come from the so-called "ganzfeld" experiments, a German term that means "whole field".