In the large, multi-generational families of the past, how well a young mother-managed to lie in depended mainly on the attitude of her mother- in-law. But with more and more nuclear families, women have more choice--they can check in at a NT $ 2,000-a-day confinement center, go back to mother's, live with their parents '-in-law or just stay at home and hire a nursemaid.
以前大家庭，媳婦的月子坐得好不好，主要是看婆婆的態度；而現在核心家庭多，女性的選擇機會也多﹘﹘可以去一天兩千元的「坐月子中心」、可以回娘家、去婆家，也可以待在自己家裡請人來做。