到目前为止，如果有人向家里的长辈、牧师或社区发展部请求帮助，让他从孩子那里获得经济支持，他们最多只能进行调解。

Until now, if a person asked family elders, clergymen or the Ministry of Community Development to help get financial support from his children, the most they could do was to mediate.

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调解人没有威慑力，孩子们完全可以无视他们的请求。

Mediators have no teeth, and a child could simply ignore their pleas.

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比如说这样的事曾发生过多次：一个程序员请求我去调解他跟程序经理之间的争论。

Here's something that has happened several times: a programmer asks me to intervene in some debate he is having with a program manager.

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