If traditional notions of filial piety are used to assess recent publicized incidents of intergenerational strife, people are justified in grumbling that times have changed and that people simply aren't as devoted to their parents as they used to be.
若由傳統孝道內涵來檢視近來發生在兩代間的許多社會事件，確實會讓人感到「時代不一樣了」，並興起「孝道之不存久矣」的喟嘆。