An investigative report on intergenerational relationships by Fu-Jen Catholic University has also discovered that modern parents 'expectations of their children have quietly changed. Now their highest hopes are not for their kids to be a smashing success or to provide for them well in old age and give them proper burials, but rather just for their kids to become independent and not become burdens on them.
輔仁大學一份代間關係的探訪報告也發現，現代父母對孩子的期望已悄悄改觀，他們最大的期望不是望子成龍、養老送終，而是孩子可以獨立自主，不要成為父母負擔。