Another report related to the AFP story notes that of course people must be married before they can get divorced. Since young people in Australia prefer living together to getting married, and few feel that marriage is essential to starting a family, naturally the divorce statistics will not include those local residents who never got married in the first place. Still, the divorce rate among Chinese abroad seems high.
另一份報導分析，離婚的要件當然是先有「結婚」的前提，而澳洲年輕一輩結婚的少、同居的多，少有人認為結婚是組成家庭的必要過程，所以在計算離婚率時，沒有辦過結婚手續的白人，無婚好離，自然不會被計算在內。