Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/04
By: Chiu Po-shen and Ko Lin

Taipei, Jan. 4 (CNA) Roughly 85 percent of the working couples in Taiwan believed it

would take an average monthly household income of nearly NT$80,000 (US$2,666) to raise a child, according to a survey released Thursday by the online 1111 job bank.

Financial burden is currently the number one concern for the majority of working couples in Taiwan when it comes to deciding whether to have children, the job bank’s vice president Daniel Lee (李大華) said.

For a family to raise children while still be able to maintain an adequate quality of life, only those with an average household income of NT$100,000 would be able to afford to, Lee said.

Aside from financial burden, the survey also showed that 23 percent of the working women in Taiwan said they have experienced discrimination in the workplace because of their marriage or pregnancy.    [FULL  STORY]