In this child-care network, private enterprises can only serve as one segment. The overall planning and implementation have to be done by government authorities or charity groups to ensure a healthy environment for children's growth and to prevent overburdening financial and mental stress on families with young children. In societies like Taiwan and Japan, private relations make up a more dominant factor than group consciousness. Children's private lives are stressed over their public lives. In such societies, it is not appropriate to put child-care work completely in the hands of private businesses.
Officials set regulations on the establishment and management of child-care institutions.
They also supervise the qualifications, salaries, and training of the child-care workers. Within certain limits, the business sector promotes child-care enterprises to fulfill special demands. Complete dominance of the child-care business by the private sector means government incompetence. Taiwan is now catching up with Japan in the spoilt child phenomenon. The entrepreneurial spirit is also emerging to develop business opportunities in the child-care sector.