Sociology professor Wang Ya-ke of National Taipei University, who has always been an ardent supporter of feminism and recently became the first scholar to promote "male studies" in Taiwan, offers the following analysis: The real reason why the "midlife crisis" has become such a hot topic in the US lies with the 75 million "baby boomers" born in the postwar period from 1946 to 1964.
一向是女性主義強烈擁護者、近年來更首開國內「男性研究」風氣的台北大學社會系教授王雅各剖析，「中年危機」在美國形成熱門議題，探究原因，是一九四六年二次大戰結束後以迄一九六四年間，為數約七千五百萬的「嬰兒潮」陸續出生。