In recent years, suicide, patricide, wife killing and child abuse have filled the headlines. "Don't underestimate the support network and the restraining capacity that an extended family provides," says Lin. "During critical moments of anxiety and emotional unsteadiness, it can often exert a tranquilizing force, holding onto a person so that he doesn't fall down."
近年來，自殺、弒父、殺妻、虐子的新聞充斥媒體版面，「不要小看家族提供的支援網和約束力，在心情焦躁浮動的關鍵時刻，它往往可以發揮安心的力量，托持一個人不要往下陷落」，林萬億說。