Wild years
An Amish teen is just that–a teen, in many ways like any other.
Here is a Toledo Blade report on youthful indiscretion in an Ohio Amish community.
Suspicious Couple Visit NY Amish Home, Attempt To Lure 13-Year-Old Girl Into Car
A disturbing story reported yesterday out of upstate New York: TOWN OF DEKALB, N.Y. (WWNY) – State Police are investigating suspicious incidents just outside the St. Lawrence County village of Richville last Wednesday. Troopers said a man and woman reportedly pulled into the driveway of an Amish household on Welch Road, where a sign was posted about rabbits for sale. According to police, a 13…
In Holmes County, some of the kids buy cars. They sell them when they join the church, but they have a lot of fun for a couple of years. It’s funny to look in a car window and see the blue shirt, suspenders, bowl haircut and hat behind the wheel of a Firebird.
Yeah that is odd! It took me a while to figure out why so many Amish homes in Holmes have cars parked around back or on the side…some of them must belong to English employees’, but some of them are the adolescent-age kids’ as well.
Some parents and especially those with a small business find this available transportation useful–but I guess some get criticized for taking advantage of it as well.