14 rules that Amish women have to follow
By the looks of the clickbait article below, participating in Wet Robe Contests are one of them.
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What are they!?
shareYou could click the link and, if you're lucky, they might tell you. That is, if you're lucky.
These articles are often misleading and don't provide the information contained in the headline. It's just another way to get people to wade through endless ads. I learned the hard way one time when the topic was something to the effect of "see what happened to these famous 80s actresses" and the photo showed someone whom I was a fan of back then. After clicking through dozens of pages with their accompanying ads, and finally reaching the end of the slideshow, the actress in the photo wasn't even mentioned in the article. Twenty minutes wasted.
Never again.
Lol click on it and let us know. Do it for the group! Only one needs to adhere to the pain.
shareI actually found another article that isn't full of ads. This one claims there are fifteen rules:
https://www.theclever.com/15-bizarre-rules-amish-women-need-to-follow/
Geez, these poor women.
shareWell, it's worth pointing out that while the article says women can be educated only to eighth grade -- implying men can go further -- the same applies to the men.
It's not an easy life. The Amish don't practice birth control, so their population is growing. But they've only got so much land, so not all Amish can have their own family farm anymore. Some have to take jobs in the surrounding communities, but it's difficult for someone who didn't finish high school to find work.
good link, no ads
poor women
Weird. Rule 5 says they're not allowed to be photographed. Rule 6 shows three Amish women being photographed, with two smiling at the camera.
shareThese all sound awful to me.
They can leave the community though can't they? They have that rumshpringer (sorry for the spelling) thing where they live in 'our' world for some time then decide which community they would prefer to live in. So these women have decided to be there and accept all these rules.
It must work for them otherwise there'd be no Amish left by now. Good luck to them.
From what I've read, they have the freedom to make the decision to either leave the community or stay and be baptized into the church.
I'm sure a lot of the girls (and boys, too) choose to stay with the community because that's all they've ever known. They would be lost in the outside world.
This article describes the Amish lifestyle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_way_of_life
I don't have patience for their nonsense. I google the question and find the answer immediately.
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