If only then the parents resort to the rod, "it will be impossible to reestablish parental authority even if you beat the children to within an inch of their lives; you will only create ever greater antagonism and will in the end fail to teach the children to behave morally as adults."
這樣的訓示何等生動，又怎不令現代的孝父孝母觸目驚心！家訓中最為現代人詬病的，大概是「重男輕女」的不平等思想。