Health care officials and medical practitioners all agree that the practice of gender selection can only be brought under control if the "traditional culture" of seeing a lack of descendants as the height of unfiliality can be changed. But, Chen Kuan-cheng believes, simply blaming cultural factors for the use of amniocentesis and other procedures for gender determination "seems to be jumping to conclusions."
連主管醫療衛生單塢醫師都認為應改變不孝有三，無後為大的「傳統文化」，才能讓鑑定性別的事有所控制；但是把利用絨毛穿刺等技術鑑定性別，歸結到文化因素，「未免跳得太快了」，中正大學社會福利研究所所長陳寬政認為。