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The rumspringa retention ratio?

What percentage of young Amish remain in the English world/adopt the customs of the English once their rumspringa ends?

Update:

Why,thank you,India. I'm all about alliteration in my questions of late. Yours is the second time I've been complimented on it.

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  • /\
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favourite answer

    None, if there's rum involved.

    The rest just need a little time

    to sow their Amish oats.

    It'sa Springa after all..

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Amish Rumspringa Statistics

  • Sara
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I used to live close to the Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania, and as far as I ever heard, none of them left the order.

    The Amish boys would be allowed as teenagers to run free in the evenings after the chores were done, and there was a custom called "throwing your hat" where a young man would leave the farm through the back field, but hang his hat on the back fence so his mother would know he wasn't lost or in trouble. On the way back home he could collect his hat. I got this story from an Amish boy, so I know it was true.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I going to raise a barn or two with the community, take the buggy to Ezekiel Lapp's Amish Buggy Works for some new springs... and get with my neighbor, Jedediah Eaby and discuss how early we will till this season !

  • 8 years ago

    There is no official number, the Amish themselves don't keep statistics on this type of thing, but scholars who study Amish and other Anabaptist cultures estimate that 15-20% of people born Amish will leave the faith.

    Source(s): http://amishamerica.com/ I also live in an area with a large Amish population and interact with them on a regular basis.
  • india
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I don't know, but I've heard so many crazy numbers that I no longer trust the numbers on this.

    EDIT: Kudos on your awesome alliteration.

    Source(s): My great grandma was Amish and they managed to get out.
  • last I heard, 90% of all young amish kids stay amish

  • 8 years ago

    50% . Obama's going to invest $500 million of your dollars into marketing "green" computers to the Amish, they will be made of wood and require no electricity.

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    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Um, Random, I don't think the Amish are allowed to use computers.

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