* HSLDA represented a family in their suit against a Yolo County police officer and social worker who conducted a warrantless search, including strip search of minor children, during a child abuse investigation.

* HSLDA represented a family that sought to have their son protected from a government mandated " special needs evaluation ".

HSLDA represented the family in its appeals which established that parents do not need a teacher's certificate to teach their children.

* HSLDA represented a family which faced a court-ordered home visit by a social service worker after the family was accused of medical neglect.

The Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) is a United States-based " nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.

Critics of the HSLDA say that its grassroots lobbying system consists of highly charged " e-lerts " that dictate position and action to recipients, often resulting in a barrage against legislators, which puts homeschoolers in a bad light.

For example, the Heritage Foundation sees it as threatening national control over domestic policy and the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) argues that the CRC threatens homeschooling.

After the student center opened, most of the college's administrative offices moved into the building, allowing more of the office space in Founders Hall to be used by HSLDA.

The NCFCA was established in 2001 after outgrowing its parent organization, the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ), which had been running the league since it was originally established in 1995.

He is a founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) and Patrick Henry College.

In 1983, Farris founded the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ), where he currently serves as chairman and general counsel.

Farris resigned his position as president of HSLDA to take on these new roles.

HSLDA is organized as a 501 ( c )( 4 ) nonprofit organization, located in Purcellville, Virginia, which is also the home of Patrick Henry College, founded by Michael Farris in 2000.

HSLDA was founded by Michael Farris in 1983 for the purpose of defending homeschooling families.

Through a combination of legal action and legislative lobbying, HSLDA played a large part in the legalization of homeschooling throughout the U. S.

HSLDA used their grassroots lobbying system in each of the 50 states which coordinated members to contact their legislators about pending legislation.

In 2003, HSLDA, feeling a need to educate youth in civics and politics, founded Generation Joshua.

* The HSLDA publishes a bimonthly magazine which is mailed to all of its members.

* The HSLDA published Constitutional Law for Enlightened Citizens by Michael P. Farris.

* The HSLDA also publishes statements on its website regarding issues that are unrelated to homeschooling, notably the organization's support of a Federal Marriage Amendment.

The National Christian Forensics and Communications Association, or NCFCA, is a speech and debate league for homeschooled students in the United States, established in 2001 after outgrowing HSLDA, which had been running the league since it was originally established in 1995.

Patrick Henry College, or PHC, is a private, non-denominational Protestant college, founded by HSLDA, that focuses on teaching classical liberal arts and government, located in Purcellville, Virginia.

In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

In the basal Eocene of North America, the Amblypoda were represented by extremely primitive, five-toed, small ungulates such as Periptychus and Pantolambda, each of these typifying a family.

The main ' Colonna di Paliano ' family is represented today by Prince Marcantonio Colonna di Paliano, Prince and Duke of Paliano ( b. 1948 ), whose heir is Giovanni Andrea Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1975 ), and by Don Prospero Colonna di Paliano, Prince of Avella ( b. 1956 ), whose heir is Filippo Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1995 ).

An individual may be represented at a permanent address, perhaps a family home for students or long term migrants.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

Establishing themselves in the countryside, their individual farms were freeholds, held by a family, whose head represented the family in other assemblies.

The family was not particularly religious, pork was a staple on the dinner table, and when he started attending temple as a boy, Cukor learned Hebrew phonetically, with no real understanding of the meaning of the words or what they represented.

Magneto and Polaris created opposite magnetic polarities, Iceman, Storm, and Sunfire provided elemental extremes, Cyclops, Phoenix, and Cable gave the sheer power of family, Xavier represented the power of mind and Bishop and Mikhail stood for time and space, while the Monolith linked all their energies together.

Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.

Six candidates, including Mauritania's first female and first Haratine ( former slave family ) candidates, represented a wide variety of political goals and backgrounds.

The composition eventually contained over 300 figures and had at its center nine episodes from the Book of Genesis, divided into three groups: God's Creation of the Earth ; God's Creation of Humankind and their fall from God's grace ; and lastly, the state of Humanity as represented by Noah and his family.

They claimed that the Saudi royal family no longer represented pure Islam and that the Masjid al-Haram ( The Sacred Mosque ) and the Kaaba, must be held by those of true faith.

The remaining Princely family is represented by Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini d ' Aragona, Duke of Gravina ( b. 1948 ).

As a Corsini, with his mother a Strozzi, the new pope represented a family in the highest level of Florentine society, with a cardinal in every generation for the previous hundred years.

The House of Mogh was a family of high social and political rank which was for a time represented on the Klingon High Council.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.

Just as the accidental or negligent extinction of a domestic hearth-fire represented a failure of domestic and religious care for the family, failure to maintain Hestia's public fire in her temple or shrine was a breach of duty to the broad community.

The culmination of such efforts came with the First White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children called by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, where it was declared that the nuclear family represented " the highest and finest product of civilization ” and was best able to serve as primary caretaker for the abandoned and orphaned.

What is not clear is whether this represented the family hedging their bets, trumpeting their apparent acceptance of Christianity, while trying to keep the old gods happy, or whether it represents some members of the family clinging to old beliefs in the face of the adoption of Christianity by others.