Take a look at a few statistics: According to Huang Tzu-chen of the Department of Budgets, Accounting and Statistics, from 1979 until 1985, the percentage of nuclear families in Taiwan (parents living with children under the age of 20) dropped 7 percent against the percentage of extended family households, where parents live with a grown child and his or her spouse or where three generations live under the same roof.
且看這幾個統計數字﹘ ﹘據主計處第四局顧問黃子貞在民國七十六年的調查，從民國六十八年到七十四年間，台灣地區核心家庭（父母與未滿廿歲子女同住家庭）的總數，相對於父母與滿廿歲子女或子女配偶同住的大家庭，或三代同堂的家庭，有減少的態勢，下降比例為百分之七。