"In fact, in the past poor families did not want their children to be like themselves," says Huang Chun-chieh of Fu Jen University's sociology department, looking at it from another angle. The idea of the son being like the father was really confined to families with a certain status in society already.
「其實以前窮苦人家也不希望孩子像他」，專研家庭社會學的輔仁大學社會系教授黃俊傑從另一個角度指出，只有在社會上享有一定地位的家庭，才有「子肖其父」的觀念。