Even so, Lin Wan-i, professor at National Taiwan University's Department of Social Work, says that though government-formulated policies are not always 100 % effective, with no policy at all there is no way to check the negative repercussions of the transformation of the family-repercussions that affect all of society and for which the state cannot simply relinquish responsibility.
然而，台大社工系教授林萬億認為，雖然政府擬定的政策不見得有百分之百的效果，但若完全沒有政策，將更無法抵擋家庭變遷所帶來的衝擊，而這些衝擊造成的後果是全體社會必須共同承擔的，因此國家難辭其責。