Chou Ching-fen, a former director of the SIF, says that when incarceration separates a criminal from his family, family relationships are sorely tested. Such sudden changes have a negative effect on other family members. And then there are also the social pressures. Just how much is a child supposed to bear?
紅心字會受刑人家庭服務組前任組長周慶芬指出，服刑事件使得受刑人與家人隔離之後，家庭關係面臨很大的考驗，突如其來的家庭變故，對其他家庭成員也帶來負面的影響，再加上來自社會的壓力，一個孩子到底能承受多少？