Originaly from Germany, The Amish in Pensilvania Dutch Country / Lancaster Country known as 'plain People', are an old order who are different from most Americans by choice and are very devoted to their faith.
They use horse drawn power and separate them selves from the modern world, preferring the natural traditional way of life of farming and forgoing the luxury's of television, Radio, cars and electricity.
They take the bible commands sirriusly and the 25 different Amish, Mennonite Brethren Church groups, each have their own traditions and bible interpretations.
By keeping separate from the modern world, helps their community strengthen.
The community do allow their teenage children however to venture out into the modern world when they turn 16 years of age.
This is so they can experince for themselves what the modern world is like. The thought behind this is to allow the young Amish to make a choice between the life they know and the strange modern way of life. Usualy the modern way of life is too much to take in and understand so they return to the natural way of life in the Amish Comunity.
There is A book by Tom Shachtman's Rum Springa: To be or not to be, Amish had its beginnings in the research done for the documentry film (Devils Playground. He mentions things that parents can learn from the Amish Pactice.
The web sites below may be worth looking at.
Alison Darksus
www.800padutch.com/amish.shtml - The Amish and the Plain People of Lancaster County PA
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyld=5455572 - Rumspringa: Amish Teens Venture into Modern Vices: NPR
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