Lee believes that because having and raising children is a lifelong burden, women have no obligation to sacrifice themselves for the state or their families--all the more so because children born today will eventually become adults and grow old. If this argument were carried to its logical conclusion, the number children would never catch up with the old.
李佳燕認為，生兒育女是一輩子的重擔，婦女沒有義務為了國家的需要或家族的要求而犧牲奉獻；何況今天多生的嬰兒，數十年後就成為青壯年，再數十年後又成為老年人。