Cindy Chu Quotes (5 Quotes)

Yet a woman's position in her husband's family was not secure until she had his son. And as a daughter-in-law, she was a relative stranger, ... So she had to work hard to gain acceptance in her husband's family.

Women can hire a domestic helper to help them with their daily chores or child-rearing but some women do not feel comfortable hiring an outsider to do such work. So they turn to their relatives, particularly their mother or their sister, to help them.

They believe they must provide the discipline to their children, and they have a need to be respected. All of these attitudes tend to distance them from their families. Yet we know now that children, especially young children, need more than that. A father needs to bond with his children and build emotional ties with them.

They did not want to follow in their parents' footsteps and be housebound, ... And they strived for independence from their own mothers who had come to Hong Kong, having been brought up in stricter times and who wanted their daughters to follow the older

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.