Huang Lun-fen argues that this is not necessarily the case: "In the agricultural society of the past, a seven-or eight-year-old-child would have to do farm labor, and do the work of playing servant to visiting neighbors, and they became 'adults' even earlier than today's children."
友緣基金會副主任黃倫芬認為倒也未必：「以前農業社會，七、八歲的孩子就要從事農業勞動，還要分擔鄰里親友送往迎來的招待工作，比現在的孩子還早『成人』。」