Su Hsiu-ting, a third-year law student at National Taiwan University and a member of the Hakka society there, describes many Hakka mothers-in-law as being "harsh taskmasters." They passed through a difficult time, and now that they have reached middle age and achieved a certain amount of power in the family, they use traditional standards to judge their daughters-in-law who have modern viewpoints.
台大客家社、就讀法律系三年級的蘇秀婷形容，很多客家婆婆就像「大酋長」，她們從艱苦的年代熬過來，一旦成為家中長老，擁有權勢，就會用舊時代的標準要求媳婦，令現代觀念的媳婦苦不堪言。