For years, affected Amish children who seemed healthy at birth soon suffered brain damage and other forms of retardation.
Most Amish children rarely attend school beyond eighth grade, often to help out at home, or in the shops.
The new law allows Amish children the ability to work with their families, once they are past eighth grade in school.
Some of these disorders are quite rare, or unique, and are serious enough to increase the mortality rate among Amish children.
Like all Amish children, she left school at 14 and went to work.
Miller said there was no evidence any of the Amish children had been molested.
There are several accounts of the origins of faceless dolls used by Amish children.
Some Amish children have wrapped blankets around small logs and pretended they were dolls.
The Amish children, upon leaving the public school system, continued their education in the form of vocational training.
It was the State's mistaken assumption that Amish children were ignorant.