Yi Chin-chun, a researcher at the Academia Sinica for Social Sciences, says that only 14.7 percent of infants under the age of three are given to day-care institutions. Among those given to private individuals, mothers, mothers-in-law and relatives on both sides account for 53 percent, more than half. Grandmas Care for Them the Most: Giving children to be taken care of by relatives has its good points and shortcomings.
中研院社會科學所研究員伊慶春在其研究中指出，三歲以前的孩子，只有百分之十四點七由交托機構照顧，在交托私人照顧的比率當中，由婆婆或夫家親戚來照顧的，或由母親或娘家親戚照顧的，佔全部研究對象的百分之五十三，超過一半。