Growing Up Amish: The Teenage Years
A Nonfiction, Amish book. The Amish are pretty interesting. I had seen "Devil's Playground", which is a documentary about Amish Youth Gone Bad (dealing...
Nearly 90 percent of those who grow up Amish choose the Amish way: a lifetime commitment to the faith and a traditional way of life. To outsiders immersed in the daily realities and luxuries of the modern world, this statistic may seem unbelievable. In this in-depth study of Amish adolescence, Richard A. Stevick offers...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780801885679 / 801885671
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The Amish are pretty interesting. I had seen "Devil's Playground", which is a documentary about Amish Youth Gone Bad (dealing coke, boozing it up, buying expensive stereos, etc.), which totally sensationalizes a certain aspect of Amish culture (although it was still fascinating to see girls in bonnets and aprons getting wasted). This... Wonderful book about Amish youth. Surprised to read about drug/alcohol usage (how do they get the money?). Very candid look at young people. If you come into frequent contact with the Amish, you soon have a lot of questions. Since your contacts are mostly casual, you hesitate to ask questions of the Amish themselves. Richard Stevick has gained the trust of Amish people living in 70 communities in the United States and has found some answers. One of mine has always been,...
