No. Amish churches forbid their members to seek a divorce or to remarry while a husband or wife is still living, and a member who does either faces excommunication and shunning. Unhappy couples sometimes separate instead. Divorce does happen now and then, but no study has measured how often. Why the Amish do not divorce The Amish take their teaching on marriage from the words of Jesus. When the Pharisees asked him whether a man could put away his wife…

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