Family Life is a magazine

Magazine

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 published by, and primarily for, the Old Order Amish. The publisher is Pathway Publishers

Pathway Publishing Company

Pathway Publishing Company of Aylmer, Ontario, Canada, is a major publisher of Amish written material.-External links:* at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online...

 of Aylmer, Ontario

Aylmer, Ontario

Aylmer is a town in Elgin County in southern Ontario, Canada, just north of Lake Erie, on Catfish Creek. It is 20 km south of Highway 401...

, Canada

Canada

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. Unlike some Amish publications, Family Life is printed entirely in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 rather than Pennsylvania Dutch

Pennsylvania Dutch

Pennsylvania Dutch refers to immigrants and their descendants from southwestern Germany and Switzerland who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries...

 or German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

.

The magazine was founded in 1968 and is published monthly. It contains articles

Article (publishing)

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, poetry

Poetry

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, recipes, and drawing

Drawing

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s submitted by readers. It also has several regular columns on subjects such as health, nature, and religion. Like its primary readership, Family Life magazine stresses simplicity

Simplicity

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, basic Christian doctrine, and an agricultural lifestyle.

Exact circulation figures are unavailable. The magazine does have some non-Amish readership, including Mennonites. It is used as a reference by some scholars, sociologists, and anthropologists who study the Amish. In addition to Family Life, Pathway produces two companion publications-Blackboard Bulletin, concerning schooling and education, and Young Companion, focusing on youth issues.