"Overseas, parents see their eighteen-year-old sons and daughters as adults, and will rarely pay their living expenses for them," notes Hwang Jen-te. But in Taiwan, many parents are pained at seeing their children "working to exhaustion and frustration, and earning so little each month--just resign and forget it."
「國外父母視十八歲以上的子女為成人，很少會為他們負擔生活費用」，黃仁德指出，但在台灣，不少父母心疼孩子「做事做得這麼受累受氣的，一個月也賺不了幾個錢，乾脆辭職算啦！」