In a society that suffers from a thinly veiled superiority complex, these "new children of Taiwan" have come to be regarded as a social burden. Negative news reports are common, and they deepen anxiety about and discrimination against these children.
由於東南亞及大陸籍配偶平均教育、經濟水準較低，結婚對象又多是台灣弱勢階層，在社會無形的優越感眼光下，新台灣之子似乎成為社會的負擔，媒體三不五時出現負面報導，更加深了社會對新台灣之子的擔憂甚至排斥。