The ideal family of the past was one where two adults of opposite sexes married for the first time and created a family that would continue forever without divorce. It would also care for older parents, produce children and thus shoulder the heavy responsibility of carrying on the family line.
過去理想的家庭是──由兩個第一次結婚的成年異性，所建構的一個永不離婚的家庭，並奉養老人，生育小孩，以負起承先啟後的重責大任。