When parental care is not available, those children need childcare facilities. A number of surveys have shown that Taiwan's working mothers need good quality and reasonably priced childcare. The same surveys point out that few nursery schools or kindergartens meet both requirements. In a way privatization should mean more choice, and decentralization offers services tailored to the community's needs. Liu criticized the privatization of childcare services, saying that this had caused inequality between families at different income levels.
Business is business.
Currently, there are about 2,900 kindergartens in Taiwan, of which over 60 percent are private. There are 2,700 nursery schools, of which over 80 percent are private. This story has been viewed 408 times. The Taipei Times. All rights reserved.