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Can you provide more details of what occurred? I'm curious and would like more info. since I never lived near any Amish people.

by da02 6y ago

Balgair 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-child-sex-abuse-in-amish-communities https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-... The Amish are insular and unique, but they are humans just like the rest of us. Working hard and using electricity, or not, is independent of human nature and all it's failings.
- julianapostate 6y ago
  im curious how either of those links prove anything, the first seems like a smart rite of passage and the second is meaningless without context... you can generally find familial Sexual Abuse in any part of the world.
  - watwut 6y ago
    The second article is not just about that abuse exists. Article is about what happens to those who report abuse. Whether it is at least theoretically possible for them to escape abuse or not. Second, how often abuse happens is different in different parts of world.
a2tech 6y ago
This is an extremely late response but I'll give you an example of something that made me angry. The Amish are only sticklers to the 'no new technology' rule at home. At their places of business they are more than comfortable using electricity, power tools, telephones, and gasoline powered equipment. So the Amish family you see out tending their garden may have a fully electrified cow barn up the road and a fully mechanized wood shop producing wooden furniture. But in their home, they won't adopt even simple advancements such as the modern 'cool touch' wood stove. Old style wood stoves such as those widely used in Amish homes, are simply iron sheets containing a fire. As you might imagine that iron will be burning hot. Its comically easy to forget that the black iron is skin meltingly hot. Children are prone to touching the stove if unmonitored for even a moment. So a child might casually lean on the stove while going by and become horrifically burned. A local hospital treats these burns and has established a relationship with the Amish where they don't report them to CPS for these horribly burned children and so the Amish feel comfortable in bringing them in for treatment. If the hospital started reporting them to CPS for these burns the Amish would stop bringing their children in for burn treatments.

Can you provide more details of what occurred? I'm curious and would like more info. since I never lived near any Amish people.

by da02 6y ago

Can you provide more details of what occurred? I'm curious and would like more info. since I never lived near any Amish people.

Balgair 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-child-sex-abuse-in-amish-communities https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-... The Amish are insular and unique, but they are humans just like the rest of us. Working hard and using electricity, or not, is independent of human nature and all it's failings.

julianapostate 6y ago
im curious how either of those links prove anything, the first seems like a smart rite of passage and the second is meaningless without context... you can generally find familial Sexual Abuse in any part of the world.
- watwut 6y ago
  The second article is not just about that abuse exists. Article is about what happens to those who report abuse. Whether it is at least theoretically possible for them to escape abuse or not. Second, how often abuse happens is different in different parts of world.

a2tech 6y ago

This is an extremely late response but I'll give you an example of something that made me angry. The Amish are only sticklers to the 'no new technology' rule at home. At their places of business they are more than comfortable using electricity, power tools, telephones, and gasoline powered equipment. So the Amish family you see out tending their garden may have a fully electrified cow barn up the road and a fully mechanized wood shop producing wooden furniture. But in their home, they won't adopt even simple advancements such as the modern 'cool touch' wood stove. Old style wood stoves such as those widely used in Amish homes, are simply iron sheets containing a fire. As you might imagine that iron will be burning hot. Its comically easy to forget that the black iron is skin meltingly hot. Children are prone to touching the stove if unmonitored for even a moment. So a child might casually lean on the stove while going by and become horrifically burned. A local hospital treats these burns and has established a relationship with the Amish where they don't report them to CPS for these horribly burned children and so the Amish feel comfortable in bringing them in for treatment. If the hospital started reporting them to CPS for these burns the Amish would stop bringing their children in for burn treatments.