In the drama series Sweeping Anti-Corruption, there is a scene where a father berates his son, demanding to know why his wife refuses to have children

In the drama series Sweeping Anti-Corruption, there is a scene where a father berates his son, demanding to know why his wife refuses to have children. He has the responsibility carrying on the family line! The son explains that he loves his wife deeply, and the doctor has told him that pregnancy and childbirth would put her life at grave risk. 在劇集《掃黑反貪》中，有一幕父親怒斥兒子，質問為何妻子不願生育。他有責任傳宗接代! 兒子解釋，因深愛妻子，而醫生告知，若懷孕生產，妻子將面臨生命危險。

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若將此情境移至美國，則須正視一個現實：在美國出生的華裔後代，往往不出三代，便與中華文化漸行漸遠，甚至不再認同自己的中國血脈。因此，對身處美國的華人而言，「傳宗接代」的文化執念已失其意義——這些孩子自認是美國人，與中國幾無連結。

If we transplant this scenario to the United States, we must face a reality: among American‑born descendants of Chinese immigrants, it often takes no more than three generations for them to drift away from Chinese culture and even stop identifying with their Chinese heritage. For Chinese people living in the U.S., therefore, the cultural obsession with “carrying on the family line” has lost its meaning—these children see themselves as Americans and feel little to no connection to China.