"As our society becomes more open, people are less bothered about other people's reproductive and marital choices," says Chen Hsin-mu, but coercive structural forces in society are more powerful: "The cost in money and time of raising and educating a family is so heavy that it reduces the scope for flexibility in family size. Thus just as in mainland China, there is no scope for having extra children."
「我們的社會逐漸開放，人們對他人的生育、婚姻選擇日漸不在意」，陳信木指出，但社會結構性的強制卻更有力﹘﹘經濟力、教養力的負擔沉重，讓家庭規模失去彈性，於是和大陸一樣，沒有空間多生一個小孩。