Re: Amish & foster care

[Alan Leigh Armstrong]

1. I agree that there is a question of whether or not the father  
understood what was going to happen.

2. It would be expected that the boy would go with the foster parents  
on the activities they and their other children went to. That may  
include the movies, etc. I do question the ear piercing. Did the  
foster parents have authority to authorize that?  It does carry some  
risks of infection. Some would consider it a medical procedure.

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RE: 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, [EMAIL 
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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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