Based on population statistics and surveys he has taken at elementary and junior high schools, Lin Wan-yi, a professor in the graduate school of sociology at Taiwan University, estimates that single-parent families make up 4-5 % of Taiwan's families and that children of single parents make up about 6 % of all children. In Taipei, Taiwan's biggest city, children of single parents make up about 8 % of all children.
台大社會研究所教授林萬億從各中小學所作的調查加上人口統計的推估，台灣地區單親家庭戶數應在百分之四∼五間，單親兒童人數約為總兒童人數的百分之六，都市化程度較高的台北市，單親兒童人口約為百分之八。