Lai Pei-ling, a social worker with the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, says that some foreign brides come to Taiwan with false expectations, believing they will be able to earn money to send back home to Vietnam, or that their husbands will be able to regularly send money to their families.
賽珍珠基金會社工員賴珮玲指出，部分外籍新娘來台前有錯誤的期待，認為來台灣可以賺錢寄回越南，或者先生可以定期幫助娘家等等，嫁過來之後難免希望「幻滅」。