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According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
The Old Order Amish do not typically carry private commercial health insurance. [138] [139] A handful of American hospitals, starting in the mid-1990s, created special outreach programs to assist the Amish. In some Amish communities, the church will collect money from its members to help pay for medical bills of other members. [133]
Amish do not view technology as evil, and individuals may petition for acceptance of a particular technology in the local community. In Pennsylvania, bishops meet in the spring and fall to discuss common concerns, including the appropriate response to new technology, and then pass this information on to ministers and deacons in a subsequent ...
The Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt. Across the country, Amish populations are on ...
You can go to 10 different Amish communities and they have 10 different ways of doing it. We didn't have Rumspringa — where the Amish youth go out and sow their wild oats, drugs, alcohol, sex ...
Forty-eight years ago I wrote a graduate paper about Amish education. The paper was titled The Educational Philosophy of the Old Order Amish in Rush County, Indiana.
The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [1] is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence.
As previously reported by The Center Square, it's difficult to estimate how many members of the Amish community vote. Nearly 400,000 exist nationwide across 654 individual settlements.