Only an unvirtuous wife who failed to get along with her mother-in-law would be so wicked as to desert her husband and children. The husband, of course, could take a concubine if his elderly parents needed someone else to look after them or if his spouse failed to bear a son to carry on the family line.
只有不賢淑的妻子，才會在與婆婆不和的情況下拋夫棄子；但丈夫卻可以因年老父母在堂，需要多一個人手照顧，或元配無所出，夫家有斷絕香煙之虞而納妾。