According to a survey of single parent families in Taiwan by Professor Hsueh Cheng-tai of the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University, of Taiwan's five million households, about 200,000 are single parent households. That is to say, about one in 25 households has only one parent. Of these, single mothers account for 60 %.
台大社會學系教授薛承泰調查「台灣地區單親戶的數量」，台灣地區五百萬戶家庭中，單親戶約有二十萬戶，也就是說每二十五戶就有一戶為單親，其中單親媽媽佔了百分之六十。