Kuo Yao-tung, director of the Taipei Family Helper Center, which helps low-income households, notes that of the 400 households the center is now helping, 60 percent are headed by single mothers, most of whom are widows.
以協助低收入家庭為宗旨的台北家扶中心主任郭耀東指出，目前他們扶助的案家將近四百個，其中有六成以上是女性單親，且大多數是喪偶造成的。