Taiwan's birthrate is the lowest in the world, at only 1.1 children in a lifetime per woman. The two main reasons are "the high pressures associated with caring for a child" and "the high costs of raising a child." The provision of a childcare subsidy has the two-edged goal of raising women's labor-force participation rate and also their willingness to have children.
我國婦女生育率之所以全球最低（一生中只生育 1.1 個孩子），「照顧壓力大」與「經濟壓力大」是兩大主因，而育嬰津貼具有提升女性勞動參與率及生育率的雙重目的。