Professor Lin Wan-i points out that in the last three or four years the Taiwan family has been in the throes of steady change in the direction of smaller scale, diversity, differentiation, fragility and a decline in functionality.
台大社工系教授林萬億指出，過去三、四十年來，台灣家庭正持續往小型化、多元化、差異化、功能萎縮、以及脆弱等方向轉變中。