The family wasn't well off. Early on, in order to take care of the family business, Mama Yang would send Yang Yu-hsin, who was not yet of school age, off to elementary school with her seven-year-old sister because "it was easier to manage that way."
楊玉欣的家庭談不上小康，早年為了照顧家中生意，楊媽媽只好將尚未屆學齡的楊玉欣和 7 歲的姊姊同時送進小學，以「方便管理」。