"If this kind of absolute filial piety was held up as the model for intergenerational relationships," argues Yeh, "I don't think only the younger generation would be opposing it. Since parents love their kids, I'm rather certain that most parents wouldn't want it either."
在時代浪潮之下，具有強制性規範的孝道已站不住腳，「今天若還以絕對主義的孝道觀來檢視代間關係，我想不僅年輕人反對，天下父母心，恐怕大多數父母也不願意享有這種絕對性的權力，」葉光輝指出。