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Who Owns the Soul of the Child?: An Essay on Religious Parenting Rights and the Enfranchisement of the Child [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
At common law, and (for most of the nation\u27s history) under state statutory regimes, the authority of the parent to direct the child\u27s upbringing was a matter of duty, not right, and chief among parental obligations was the duty to provide the ...
Shulman, Jeffrey
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The Amish Settlement in Honduras, 1968-1978: A (Half) Failed Attempt to Develop an Amish Understanding of Mission [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
For their several-hundred years of successfully maintaining Amish settlements in North America, for what reason would a group of families—largely from Nappanee, IN, and Aylmer, ON—want to start a settlement in Honduras? This account traces the genesis of
Anderson, Cory, Anderson, Jennifer
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Cross-sectional survey on genetic testing utilization and perceptions in Wisconsin Amish and Mennonite communities

open access: yesJournal of Community Genetics, 2022
Katie B Williams   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of a Novel Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Carrier Screening in Old Order Amish and Mennonite Populations of Pennsylvania

open access: yesJournal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2019
Genetically isolated populations, such as the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, have an increased incidence of specific autosomal recessive disorders caused by the founder effect. In these populations, robust expanded carrier screening
E. Crowgey   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nature and the Environment in Amish Life—David McConnell and Marilyn Loveless

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
"In this symposium review, three agricultural and environmental researchers discuss the book Nature and the Environment in Amish Life by David McConnell and Marilyn Loveless, both of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
Steven Reschly   +2 more
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Writing Life, Writing Back, and Writing Through: Saloma Furlong's Why I Left the Amish: A Memoir and Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2016
In recent years, the memoir boom has left publishers searching far and wide for new material. As part of this trend and the immense demand for anything Amish, non-professional writers have seized the opportunity make their voices heard.
Sabrina Voelz
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Working Together: Women and Men on the Amish Family Farm in 1930s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Old Order Amish men did not own gasoline tractors or other large power farm implements to amplify their manhood, and Amish women did not own mechanical household appliances to symbolize their feminine role as housekeepers.
Katherine Jellison, Steven Reschly
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Spontaneous Recovery of Superhydrophobicity on Nanotextured Surfaces

open access: yes, 2015
Rough or textured hydrophobic surfaces are dubbed superhydrophobic due to their numerous desirable properties, such as water repellency and interfacial slip. Superhydrophobicity stems from an aversion for water to wet the surface texture, so that a water
Patel, Amish J.   +2 more
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The loss of slow skeletal muscle isoform of troponin T in spindle intrafusal fibres explains the pathophysiology of Amish nemaline myopathy

open access: yesJournal of Physiology, 2019
The pathogenic mechanism and the neuromuscular reflex‐related phenotype (e.g. tremors accompanied by clonus) of Amish nemaline myopathy, as well as of other recessively inherited TNNT1 myopathies, remain to be clarified.
K. Oki, Bin Wei, H. Feng, J.-P. Jin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Consumption in Practice: Gift-giving as Mutual Aid in Amish Direct Homes Sales

open access: yesNANO, 2017
The seemingly pastoral way of Amish living, manifested in their denial of modern technology, use of the horse-and-buggy, and community-sanctioned use of solid-color dress codes, does not invoke an image of the Amish as active consumers.
Nao Nomura
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