"When there's a language gap, it's like bringing up someone else's kid," says Huang Li-ying, a counselor with the Chinese-American Parents Association. Parents are unable to tell children their real feelings, and children do not know exactly what their parents mean. "It is as if there is a layer of glass" separating the two generations.
「與孩子們語言有隔閡，就如同在幫別人養小孩一樣」，也是華人家長會的輔導員黃麗英指出，作父母的不能跟孩子說心裡的話，孩子們不懂父母真正的意思是什麼，兩代如同「隔了一層透明的玻璃一樣」。