Amish Families in America

Paper Summary:

The paper describes how the Amish people follow a simple life that is adherent to family, faith and community principles. The paper then looks at the view that human development takes place within the context of the relationships that form the environment and discusses how structure in society has always been the strongest foundational base to support the most positive human development. The paper shows how this structure remains very secure only in the Amish community in the United States.

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Objective
Introduction
Standards: Amish Women vs Contemporary American Women
Relations of Culture, Values and Belief to Ecological Theory
Environmental factors Influencing Culture, Values and Beliefs
Summary and Conclusion

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"Today's society is characterized by a broken down unit of what was once a structure formed tightly through matrimonial bonds and was a structure that was a firm foundational beginning for children's futures to be constructed upon. It was a structure that has passed the test of time in society and that had served well. Feminism arose when it was required by the processes at work within society in order to find a balance for women who work however, feminism assisted in the breaking down of the family unit as divorces and working mothers became more and more common. There is still today a group of people existing in the United States that follow a very simple life that is adherent to family, faith and community principle and who separate themselves from the common society. These people are the Amish who originally came from Switzerland and were at one time brought into the protection of America by William Penn."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Amish Women (2007) SocBerty 27 Feb 2007. Online available at: http://www.socyberty.com/Women/Amish-Women.17136
• Amish Women; Feb 27, 2007 Online available at: http://www.socyberty.com/Women/Amish-Women.17136
• Bronfenbrenner, Urie (1990) Discovering What Families Do," Rebuilding the Nest: A New Commitment to the American Family, published by Family Service America, 1990.)
• Discovering What Families Do," by Urie Bronfenbrenner in Rebuilding the Nest: A New Commitment to the American Family, published by Family Service America, 1990. Online available at: http://www.montana.edu/www4h/process.html.
• Olmstead, Dan (2005) Genetics 101: The Amish Anomaly. 22 June 2005. A Photon in the Darkness. Online available at: http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2005/06/genetics-101-amish-anomaly.html

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