The reality, according to research published by Dr. Hsueh Cheng-tay of National Taiwan University's Department of Sociology in 2001, is that poverty rates among single fathers and single mothers are essentially identical. In 1998, for example, the poverty rate among single fathers was 20.18 %, slightly above the 18.72 % for single mothers.
但事實上，根據台大社會系教授薛承泰的研究（「台灣單親戶及貧窮之趨勢研究」，2001 年）男單親和女單親的貧窮率不相上下，以 1998 年為例，男單親的貧窮率為 20.18％，還高於女單親的 18.72％。