When adults 'circumstances change, children have no choice but to change with them. "Feng Yen, an associate professor at Taiwan University's sociology department who is currently researching Taiwan's child daycare policies, laments that the stability of agricultural society, in which people did not move away from their home locality and help was always available from the extended family, is gone without trace.
大人一旦變動，孩子別無選擇，只能跟著變了」，目前正在研究兒童托育政策的台大社會系副教授馮燕感嘆，以前那種世代務農，世居當地，還有龐大家族互為奧援的安適時代，已經無處尋覓了。