Unlike genuine cross-strait families created 40 years ago by the fall of the mainland to Communism, new cross-strait families have mostly come about as a matter of the partners 'own free will, in order to pursue a better future. And instead of the Taiwan Strait, most of the new-style families are separated by the Pacific Ocean or the South China Sea.
和四十年前因戰爭而被迫造成「兩岸家庭」不同的是，新兩岸家庭多是為了追求更美好的未來，夫妻雙方在自由意志下所作的抉擇；而「兩岸」也不只是台灣海峽兩岸，更多的是太平洋兩岸，以及南中國海兩岸。