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Don't know if this is true of the Amish, but fundamentalist groups who target large families generally lose a large fraction of those kids to mainstream culture
by ajb 4y ago
Don't know if this is true of the Amish, but fundamentalist groups who target large families generally lose a large fraction of those kids to mainstream culture (source: Bob Altmeyer, The Authoritarians). Hence, their culture does not outcompete mainstream culture.
- klipt 4y agoThere are comments elsewhere on this post saying around 85% of Amish raised children remain Amish.
- Thorrez 4y agoFrom the article: >Reasons for Population Growth. The primary forces driving the growth are sizable nuclear families (five or more children on average) and an average retention rate (Amish children who join the church as young adults) of 85 percent or more. A few outsiders have joined the Amish, but the growth is almost entirely from within the Amish community.
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- MandieD 4y agoWhile they have Rumspringa as late teens and can theoretically choose not to get baptized and become adult members, choosing not to means exclusion from the only community they've ever known, into a world they have not been educated to make a living in - particularly, the girls.
- lawn 4y agoThe same reason that countries with higher child mortality have higher birth rate. Go figure, this has nothing to do with religion.