But placing so much importance on marriage and the family hasn't made modern Chinese more willing to cleave together as couples. On the contrary, with the change from an agricultural society to a commercial and industrial one with an international orientation, more and more couples are living apart for the sake of pursuing a better future.
然而重視婚姻與家庭，卻未使現代人更願意共效于飛；相反的，在生活環境由農業社會步入工商社會、國際化之後，為了更美好的「未來」，夫妻分離而居的情形於今尤烈。