The traditionally minded mother-in-law had frequently criticized her friends 'children for not being filial when they "dumped off" the work of caring for them on a Filipina maid. When she herself became ill, naturally she was not willing to have a maid care for her, and it followed as a matter of course that the job fell to her only daughter-in-law.
婆婆觀念傳統，經常批評朋友的子女不孝，把照顧父母的工作「丟」給菲傭，輪到自己生病時，自然不願意讓菲傭照顧，照顧工作順理成章地落在唯一的媳婦身上。