Amish Women
About Amish women
Roles of Amish and American women compared and contrasted.
There are some differences as well as few similarities between the Amish women and the contemporary American women. For the purpose of easy understanding and quick grasp, I choose to categorize them under the following subheadings.
Role as wife: Amish women greatly value the institution of marriage; they do everything humanly possible to make their marriages work. More importantly, they believe in the scriptural injunction that says “wives submit yourselves onto your husbands, as onto the lord.”(Ephesians 5:22) They realize that the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. (Ephesians 5:23) There is no power struggle between the wife and her husband and in conformity with their culture; they abhor exaltation, called pride. Women greatly humble themselves and reverence their husbands and God. Amish women know how to take good care of their husbands’ through good smiles, patience, charity and humility.
The American women values marriages but there are numerous factors militating against successful marriages; too busy lifestyle, undue competition between wife and husband, friend’s influence, incessant work, carelessness and praylessness, inability of the wife to submit to the husband and covetousness. It is a common practice that a husband and wife living in the same room might not see each other for two or three days due to work pressure.
Role as Mother: Amish mothers deliver their babies at home, the older women believe in having as many children as God gives them, while younger mothers thought the ideal number of children a woman should have is six. Averagely Amish gave birth to 6.5 children; slightly over 10 percent of Amish families have 10 or more children. When a new baby is born, several adult women suddenly appear to help with the care of the baby for several months. These comprise the grandmothers, sisters, and aunts. Amish teach their children the way of God and the norms of their land. All teachings of the children are the prerequisite of the family.
American mothers deliver their babies in hospitals. Friends or peer group from the church might assist the lucky ones for a couple of days after which she takes the baby to a day care in readiness to returning to work. An average American woman has three children. Nevertheless, some might determine not to have any.
Role as working in the community. The Amish women work in the homes and close to their homes. They are efficient managers, in addition to providing childcare the wife normally oversees the garden, preserves food, cooks, cleans, washes, sews and supervises the yard work. The women cherish making gardens and caring for flowers. The responsibilities of mowing the lawns with push mowers without engines falls on the women. Those women who live on a farm often assist their men with barn chores -feeding calves, milking cows, gathering eggs, and harvesting crops and vegetables. Few women do clerical jobs or bookkeeping in their husband’s shop. Amish women devote their energy to family living; they do not belief in working away from home. They “view professionals working away from home and children as a distortion of God’s created order that can only lead to divorce”. (p. 86). Amish women are happy doing their jobs of family caring and they express high levels of social and personal satisfaction.
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Post CommentLaurie R.
On September 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Amish people are the most honest and christian people you could ever meet.The Bible says be not conformed to this world and thats what they are doing.They don’t fall for worldly ways.Women now a days are a shame,they don’t stay in marriages as soon as it gets tough or bad times fall they run,or mess around on their husbands.They want control of everything,the Lord put men on this earth to have authority over women.Women fall for the devils ways and thats why women are suppose to obey their husbands.Some women has asked me well what if they are wrong?You are suppose to have faith in the Lord that he will guide your husband in the right way!Don’t run when things gets tough!Amish people are respectable so don’t sit their and say they are hypocritical they are doing what the Bible says!
Gwen
On September 12, 2008 at 9:18 am
I’ve recently had some contact with the Amish. We hire them to build a shed. The entire time they were here, not once did they acknowledge my presence. In order not to offend them, I dressed very modestly. (Long skirt and long sleeve shirt)I spoke to them. They did not speak back.I was made to feel as if I did not exist. Yet they treated my husband with open friendship. I don’t know if they just don’t like non amish women They have a problem with African Americans. I am African American. My husband is white. The experience left me distraught.
Dennis
On October 16, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I’d love to meet single Amish women. They’re sexy without the makeup and wearing their long dresses.Real women that love taking care of their men.
Our culture has destroyed the family, women and men both, with gay rights and same sex marriages.
Even the Amish are having a hard time protecting their culture.
Denny
On January 1, 2009 at 5:14 pm
How can I go about hiring an Amish contrator?
Denny
Craig
On January 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
Amish women are the best women to date and marry.They never cheat on there men.Also they are good in bed.
Mrs. Washington
On January 26, 2009 at 3:21 pm
#5-Craig just how do you know if they are good in bed? No gentalman would speak of a WIFE in this manner to others.Sincerely!
#2-Gwen I have had an amish man speak to me in Wal-Mart. I was will to let him go a head of me, only to have him question me as to why I thought he should have been allowed to go first, for I was a lady. My experience with the amish is that the ladies do little speaking to others such as the English but the men do address other men. It’s possible that they did not want to disrespect your husband by having words with you. This is my opinion and observation.
Henrique
On March 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm
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Shammar
On May 13, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I am woundering America is fighting Islamic people in Arabic countries to spreed the freedome while amish are almost close to islamic traditional.the only difference is the religion islamic belive on only one god while christ belive on three.
Kahlan
On May 26, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Yes, the Bible did say “a woman should submit to her husband”, but the phrase after that says “a husband should love his wife”. So I think in this case it is fair, I will submit to a man if he loves me. Loving means caring for, not cheating on, and hurting the wife physically or mentally. I have no problem in taking on the role of a “traditional” wife if the man can take on his role based on the Bible. That, in my opinion, is the only way for me or any woman to submit unconditionally to her husband.
Laura
On June 15, 2009 at 10:47 am
how do you become amish
Jonathan
On June 23, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Amish people are lacking in brains. They need to understand that the planet is evolving, technology is advancing. You aren’t supposed to fall back and be what we were in 1400 we’re supposed to grow and become smarter what if Earth was faced with an international crisis with somthing to do in space we would use our technology to solve it. Amish people would probably do something we did back in the day…no help there. I agree amish people are pure but women are not created less equal to men we are all the same people it takes both the mind of a woman and a man to advance to the next level
Jeff
On July 25, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Amish women are the better choose vs american modern women. Some women and men may be intellegent enough to fight off an international crisis, however the majority of modern people are not that intellegent and are zobies of their current employer. Most modern people are not rocket scientists, they are grocery store clerks and employed in other areas that require no intellegence. One thing about modern american women though, their hair styles do look like there from outer space.
Heather
On September 24, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Jeff, I agree with you. Modern day America is so dumbed down. They lower test scores in schools so “no kid is left behind” but that shouldn’t be the way to do it. They should be taught properly instead of supporting the fact that they don’t understand the material being taught. Amish people don’t go past 8th grade because family is that important. Besides everything you learn after 8th grade is the same thing with more details so you really don’t need more than that in my opinion.
Erika Wells
On August 24, 2010 at 9:56 pm
can an Amish woman live away from the community and work at a grocery store?
EP
On August 25, 2010 at 7:46 pm
@Gwen It is not because you are African American. They may not have spoke to you because you are a woman and this was business between men — i.e your Husband and the workers. They did not speak to you because in this culture a lone MARRIED woman speaking to a strange man is simply not done. It would have been seen as a HUGE sign of disrespect to talk to you openly without your husband present. As an African American Mennonite woman who has been to numerous New Order Amish services I can tell you that the Amish I associate with are not racist.
Khadijah
On September 26, 2010 at 10:31 am
Hello:
I have just moved to Ohio temporarily, and have had some contact with the Amish in Farmers Markets and stores. One thing I have noticed is that if a man is present, the woman does not talk, or this seems to be the case.
I am an American convert to Islam, but a very moderate one, though my first exposure to Islam included the Niqab (full face covering) but I eventually abandoned that. In my faith, almost like Eastern Orthodox Christianity, women generally do not talk to men unless strictly for business.
My life study has been of religion and I find this difference to be so interesting, though I have the utmost respect for another persons’ beliefs.
Much Peace
Khadijah