Pop as pinch hitter Lin Wan-i, a professor in the Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University, notes that the father in Taiwan is seen as a "pinch hitter" or "temporary substitute" for the mother.
補充式的父愛台大社會工作系教授林萬億指出，在台灣，父親的角色被認為是「補充式的」、「暫時性的」，只是用來補充媽媽的不足。