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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts Pennsylvania Amish women with American women in terms of dating, marriage, motherhood, and child rearing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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contemporary American women are stuck in traffic jams while either transporting their children to a daycare center or driving to their full-time jobs, Amish women are either passengers in a
horse-drawn buggy, working alongside their husbands and children in the fields or quilting or performing other domestic chores. These women may occasionally cross paths, but the lives they lead
couldnt be any more divergent. Lancaster County is the first Amish settlement in America, originally populated by Swiss immigrants, who were the followers of the Anabaptism teachings of Jacob
Ammann (Kokkola, 2002). In 1737, several families arrived on a ship named Charming Nancy and initially settled in Lancaster and surrounding Berks and Chester Counties (Kokkola, 2002). This
religious sect practices social isolation, refuses to accept technological innovations, and strictly adheres to carefully defined gender roles. Today, the Amish women of Lancaster County have little in common
with their American counterparts, except for their shared gender characteristics. While American girls seem to be dating at a younger age every year, with even some 11-year-olds boasting about "going
steady," or at least accompanying their boyfriends (with or without parental chaperones) to places like each others houses, the neighborhood mall or local movie theater. However, young Amish girls
are not allowed to even think about dating until they reach age sixteen, and then it is under the strict supervision of family members and church elders (Sheftel, Amish Women
and Everyday Life, 2002). In the Old Order Amish sects, after church services, which are held every other Sunday at one of the members homes, there are social gatherings
for young people afterwards, usually around 8 p.m. (Sheftel, Amish Women and Everyday Life, 2002). For the next three hours, boys and girls engage in a community sing-along of
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