Retirement is a forbidding prospect for many college-educated people, for example, while larger families feel less stress from "having a child," "a son or daughter leaving home," "family members unable to reunite," or the like.
像「退休」對大專以上程度的人來說，就很難忍受；對「生小孩」、「兒子或女兒離家」、「家人不能團聚」等事，大家庭的壓力較少，但相差不大，或許與我們的社會中，小家庭與父母間的聯繫尚稱密切有關。