Amish & foster care

[Eric Rassbach]

There are many varieties of Amish, with varying degrees of interaction with the “English”.  Thus there are some that sell items to the public at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, while others, e.g. the Swartzentruber subgroup of Old Order Amish, who have limited English language capabilities since they speak a dialect of German among themselves and try to stay away from the English to the extent they can.  So I don’t think one can make a blanket assumption that all Amish would understand what government officials tell them.  But Art would probably best know whether Alan’s concern applies in this particular case.

 

 

 

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The Amish in Pennsylvania regularly deal with the outside world through selling their many (often popular) products, watching television in neighbor's homes, and simply mingling with others in the community.  I think it unlikely that he would have less understanding than a typical parent.  So I guess the question would be whether an average citizen would have understood that the immediate next step in response to that statement (which plenty of nonreligious parents say all the time) is state custody.

 

Marci

 

In a message dated 7/1/2008 7:51:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, aebrownstein at ucdavis.edu writes:

	tend to agree with Eugene’s post. My only concern would be whether the interaction between the father and son and state police or welfare authorities was adequate – so that it was clear to the father what it meant to say that he would take his son back when the boy was ready to follow the rules.

	 

	Alan Brownstein

	 

 





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