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Update 6: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
To protect the privacy of participants, we summarized the responses to "How were you impacted by CSA?"
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Lauri Stoltzfus
- Oct 3
- 3 min
Open Letter to Goshen College & Bluffton University
My name is Lauri Stoltzfus, and I recently saw a packet of materials sent to social work professors and college academic leaders
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Sep 24
- 6 min
Update 5: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
We found that the highest rates of child sexual abuse were among those who were born Anabaptist (49%)
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Aug 20
- 2 min
Update 2 : CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
There is a significant difference in the child sexual abuse experiences of the people who are currently Anabaptist.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Aug 13
- 1 min
Update: Child Sexual Abuse in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
Update on the research study: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities with the calculated percentages.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Reporting Amish Abuse
When I called and reported the suspected abuse case of an Amish families children to the local civil authorities. The local county's...
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Amish Take Care of Their Own
" They often say if we were abused, we had a rebellious heart. Confessing will help us submit."
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Mary Byler
- May 19
- 2 min
The Little Girl
The Little Girl
22 January 2006
By Mary Byler
I can’t breathe, let me go, let me go…
I screamed…
I can’t see, let me go, let me go…
…but no
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Rue
- Apr 2
- 2 min
After
Sometimes, when we connect with fellow trauma survivors, we find moments of clarity and solidarity in discussing trauma experiences
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Amish Parental Love
“It’s often taught as a transactional type of love”.
What do I mean by this?
It’s conditional on the Amish person or child complying with
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Mary Byler
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Come as You Are
Start by being present with us as we walk through this journey of finding the will to live after the horror and terror.
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Mary Byler
- Jan 24
- 2 min
A Christmas Market
There's a card with an inspirational story behind the earrings. I was speechless.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Amish Child’s Prayer
I heard there is joy & smiles to be had, I’ve done nothing wrong, why do I feel so bad?
Who do I tell, where do I go? What do I reap
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Mary Byler
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Have you struggled with holidays?
Within many people there's a lot of grief around holidays. Part of the reason for me personally (and I can't speak for others; there may be)
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Mary Byler
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Forgive?
"When you wrong someone and you ask for forgiveness, it is up to that person to choose whether to forgive you or not. "
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Hope Anne Dueck
- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
Is it Verbal Porn?
Advocates are repeatedly having survivors get in touch with us after they have reached out to people who they thought were safe, only to be
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Nov 7, 2021
- 2 min
An Open Letter to Religion
Laying in bed, with my hood over my head, hugging my teddy bear wishing I was dead.
That’s what it does to me.
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Mary Byler
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
Is Autism a Disability?
When I can keep a job that I'm damn good at but can't organize my own house cleaning schedule?
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
"Coat Of Many Colors"
I used to listen to this song "Coat of Many Colors, by Dolly Parton" (on my forbidden radio) on my bed with the blue Ohio Star quilt
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Mary Byler
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
How do Amish Handle Sexual Abuse of Children?
The Amish punish rapists and pedophiles by 6 weeks of shunning and then no one is to ever speak of it again.
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