Among the Amish, however, "rumspringa" simply refers to adolescence. During that time a certain amount of misbehavior is unsurprising and is not severely condemned (for instance, by "Meidung" or shunning). Adults who have made a permanent and public commitment to the faith would be held to the higher standards of behavior defined in part by the Schleitheim and Dordrecht confessions. In a narrow sense the young are not bound by the "Ordnung" because they have not taken adult membership in the church. Amish adolescents do remain, however, under the strict authority of parents who are bound to "Ordnung", and there is no period when adolescents are formally released from these rules.