What is the rumspringa?

The Amish do not take non-adults into church membeship. Church membership cannot be taken lightly, for one who joins the church and falls away from the church is "shunned", unable to talk to friends and family, until he comes back into the church.

Teenages boys often go through a period of highly outrageous living,hemuch like a colt kids his heels up, in order to"get it out of his system". It'stypically no different thanwhat English kids go through at the same age,the teen angst and rebelliousness. In the 1953 movie, "The Wild One", Peggy Male aked, "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"tween reaching and Maelon Brando answered "Whadda you got?"

Rumspringa is that period before joining the church.