In recent years, along with changing cultural values, cases of abuse directly due to family economic factors are relatively less. But increasingly, broken homes and the low tolerance for frustrations in small families have become important causes leading to child abuse.
近年來，由於社會文化結構的改變，直接因為家庭經濟因素而虐待兒童的例子較少，但日益嚴重的破碎家庭及小家庭之挫折容忍力低，漸漸成為導致兒童被虐待的重要原因。