abused physically and mentally or treated unfairly in other manners.
Therefore, some of them suffer from developmental delays, emotional
disturbance or PTSD, or abnormal behavior. The life counselors in institutions
who have to deal with such cases with multiple problems are engaged in
difficult and high pressure work. When facing problems themselves, the life
counselors lack the channels to seek consultation and emotional support and,
therefore, are unable to deal with these problems immediately. Under these
circumstances, confrontations may easily arise between students and life
counselors. The Ministry of Health and Welfare should discuss the relevant
corrective actions. Upon investigation and follow-up by the Control Yuan, the
Ministry of Health and Welfare has already widened the proportion of
subsidies for special caregiver personnel and raised the level of subsidies, in
order to provide the juvenile and child placement institutions with more
manpower and higher budgets.
New Immigrant Family Child Protection
147. New immigrant families often leave their children in the care of their relatives
in their home countries, in consideration of work and financial burden. This is
an expedient practice called cross-national childcare. The government should
deal seriously with the practical difficulties faced by the new immigrant
families through discussion and integration of adequate childcare policies
addressing actual needs. This is done in the hopes of providing new immigrant
families with the assistance to satisfy their childcare service needs. The
government is also advised to discuss giving permission for the new
immigrants’ parents in their home countries to reside in Taiwan and take care
of their minor children as an expedient practice or special project, in order to
help improve and mitigate problems derived from the new immigrants’
children staying overseas as well as the difficulties in education and inclusion
into society after the children return to Taiwan.
Non-Native Child Protection
148. Some female migrant workers run away or are deported, and their children
born in Taiwan have to face problems such as an unknown biological father
and untraceable biological mother, or they are identified as foreign or stateless
juveniles and children, or their nationality cannot be identified (hereinafter
referred to as “non-native juveniles and children” collectively). The children
will also have to deal with multiple difficulties when applying for household
registration, naturalization, resident visas, or placed in adoption and, therefore,
may potentially become an unregistered population in society. These juveniles’
and children’s survival and development are severely adversely affected. Even
if these juveniles and children acquire resident visas as special cases and
receive related protection in accordance with the Protection of Children and
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