Asiaweek senior correspondent Chua Leong-kian explains that Singapore is an aging society, and that while the older generation in a Chinese family was most likely educated in Chinese, the younger generation have been educated in English. They think in very different ways from each other, which is why there are frequent cases where offspring have abandoned their parents.
「新加坡已進入高齡化社會」，亞洲週刊資深特派員蔡良乾分析，華人家庭中，通常老一代受的是華文教育，新一代則受英文教育，雙方觀念差距很大，因此子女遺棄父母的事件不時發生。