虎媽的老公是個明白人

虎媽說她的老公與她有關孩子的觀念相反。
虎媽說：
I don’t think most Westerners have the same [Confucian] view of children being permanently indebted to their parents. My husband, Jed, actually has the opposite view.

“Children don’t choose their parents,” he once said to me. “They don’t even choose to be born. It’s parents who foist life on their kids, so it’s the parents’ responsibility to provide for them. Kids don’t owe their parents anything. Their duty will be to their own kids.” This strikes me as a terrible deal for the Western parent.

虎媽的老公說：“孩子無法選擇他們的父母，他們甚至無法選擇被出生。是父母把生命強加到孩子身上，因此父母有義務供養他們。孩子不欠父母任何東西。他們的責任是對他們自己的孩子。”