I live among Amish farmers and they sure as heck do vaccinate their babies/toddlers. I hate it when they bottle up my doctors office because they all come at once in a van with back to back appointments spanning two plus hours. They do take very good care of their children and afford them many hours of play and attention.
Not to argue, but people do take their children in for well-baby visits and don't necessarily inoculate when that happens, or they may insist on non-mercury vaccines.
That hasn't always been the case. From the reading I posted on a previous post, there have been some isolated epidemics of "preventable" illnesses that has changed some of their minds.
But the Amish use to (as I understand it) not allow vaccinations. Vaccination of Amish children is a fairly recent development.
"they do take good care of their children" . . .
I think there's more to it all than just vaccinations. Nowadays, women have fallen for the feminist bunk and left their children in droves to be "cared for" en masse at some daycare center or the other from six weeks on. Generally, the average modern day mom's idea of a well balanced diet is a slice of pizza dough with some tomato sauce and an orange soda pop for themselves and for their child. It is rip and run, rip and run, slam bam, bang bam all day and home at night to a full plate of homework, computer games, and overstimulating tv shows. Of course, the kids have their own tv's and phones because modern parents want to see that they have everything. No wonder babies are being born already shrinking from this crash bam bang slam overstimulating, overcomputerized world that never rests. The Amish choose a peaceful, quiet lifestyle without all the hullabaloo.
And before someone chews me out for not understanding that some moms "have to work", let me say that most women I know who work are really losing money by the time they pay childcare providers, car payments for the new car they just have to have to drive to work and gasoline to run it, plus all the clothes and $15 pantyhose they go through keeping up the appearances that the boss requires (tacitly, of course) at their workplace. It is just not glamourous to stay at home with the babies and the kids. I think some women I've known who worked outside the home felt that they would be depriving the world of something wonderful if they didn't get gussied up every day and get out there and butt heads in the world. I understand there are exceptions.