Shortly before this important step, Lin Chih-cheng had got out of his restaurant business and become a postman with the Shangta post office. Chang Ching-chun stays at home to look after the house. Of their two natural sons, one is studying first year in senior high school, and the other is at junior high school, also in first year.
加入北縣家扶中心寄養家庭行列兩年多的林家，是個小康家庭，一家之主林志成在幾年前結束餐廳生意後，改行到上大郵局送信，媽媽張靜純則是個全職的家庭主婦，兩個兒子，一個高一、一個國一。