by Torah Bontrager | Published on Feb 8, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture
Children are human beings, not property owned by adults who gave birth to them. We need a movement that acknowledges and enforces the Constitutional rights of Amish and other children, such as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish, fundamentalist Christian, Jehovah’s Witness, and Native/Indigenous.
by Torah Bontrager | Published on Feb 7, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture
The educational and economic fates of Amish children don’t enter the public consciousness. Amish children aren’t part of the equation in the economic future of the United States.
by Torah Bontrager | Published on Feb 6, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture
The very first law about education in what is now the United States was all about making people literate enough to read the Christian Bible.
