According to research by the American anthropologist Margery Wolf, Taiwan at that time was a traditional patriarchal society in which there were great pressures on a new daughter-in-law joining the family, and this was reflected in the high rate of suicide among young women.
根據美國人類學家 Margery Wolf 的研究，早期台灣屬傳統的典型父系家庭，剛過門的媳婦往往承受多重壓力，以致於自殺率偏高。