In Japan, "silver divorce" often strikes life-long housewives. After child-rearing responsibilities have ceased, they yearn to find themselves and become reluctant to wait on their husbands, so they take it upon themselves to file for divorce. But it's a little different in Taiwan.
日本的「熟年離婚」往往是指，當了一輩子家庭主婦的太太們，在養兒育女責任已了後，希望追尋自我、不願意再侍候「老爺」而主動提出的，然而台灣的情況又有些不同。