"In the past, everyone thought that the family was the cure for all ills," says Lin Wan-yi, director of National Taiwan University's department of sociology. He believes that policy makers are not aware of the speed at which the structure of families has been changing, and that their continued promotion of a policy of "filial piety" has caused them to miss their chance to resolve the problem.
「過去總以為家庭是萬靈丹」，台大社會系主任林萬億指出，決策者沒有意識到家庭結構變化得如此之快，一味地推廣孝道，延宕瞭解決問題的時機。