We didn't have Rumspringa — where the Amish youth go out and sow their wild oats, drugs, alcohol, sex, that kind of thing. That's a reality in some communities, but we had no parts of that where ...

At the time, Lizzie had been staying at her sister's home in Ohio, where she ... she knew the Amish lifestyle was not for her. She explained that Rumspringa, a rite of passage that typically ...

It’s part of the Amish tradition of letting younger members get a taste of the outside world, a tradition called Rumspringa.

testing traditional Amish boundaries (for some youth), and deciding if they will join the church or leave the community. Because most youth are not baptized during Rumspringa they are in a liminal ...

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, that ...

These images, taken in Lancaster, PA between 2004 and 2010, show contemporary Amish men, women and children. While the Amish generally do not pose for pictures, some will cooperate with ...

NEW safety measures in Ohio, in the United States, which require the Amish community’s black buggies to display flashing lights, are being challenged as a threat to ...

An Amish girl goes on Rumspringa in Hollywood and meets a cute guy, and then must decide if she will stay in California and risk being shunned by her family or return home and marry her Amish ...