Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF) conducted a sample survey among high school students aged 12 to 17 in Taiwan using the DASS21 Emotional Self-Assessment Scale. It found that more than 10% of the students’ stress level is above the severe level, and the stress index of high school students (16.0%) is nearly twice as high as that of junior high school students (8.2%).

The Legislative Yuan is expected to pass the revised draft of the Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act and the Child and Adolescent Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act on the third reading in the next ten days. In response to this, Senior Director Li Hongwen of the Child Welfare League Foundation, Legislator Wang Wanyu, Secretary-General Chen Yiling of ECPAT Taiwan, Executive Director Du Yingqiu of the Women’s Rescue Foundation, Deputy Executive Director Wang Shufen of The Garden of Hope Foundation, and other partners in the amendment alliance held a joint press conference. Here, they proposed several amendments to the laws and demanded the central government improve image removal mechanisms, giving victims more substantial protection and support for their sexual privacy.

Discipline ≠ Corporal Punishments! Most studies show that rather than positive results, corporal punishments do more harm than the expected effects. Child Welfare League Foundation urges the government to regulate and abolish by law the social norm of physical punishments in Taiwan, and break the old thoughts of "spare the rod; spoil the child". CWLF Orange Ribbon VR immersive learning experience is coming up, let us learn to listen to children's voices by standing in their shoes and seeing from children's perspectives.

For CWLF’s sixth annual anti-bullying campaign this year, we once again collaborated with Swire Coca-Cola, Taiwan and launched “Wow! We Are Different!” (“wow” sounds similar to “socks” in Mandarin) anti-bullying campaign and declared November “Anti-Bullying Socks Month.” Schools are encouraged to join the campaign via simple and fun actions so as to gain public attention on anti-bullying issues.

The mayor election is taking place on November 26th, as youngsters under 18 years old can yet to vote, what is the ideal city environment for children and youngsters these future leaders of the cities planned to build? Five organisations which have been focusing on child and youth welfare including Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF), Child Health Alliance Taiwan (CHAT), John Tung Foundation, Good Neighbors Taiwan, National Taiwan University Children and Family Research Center (NTUCFRC) Sponsored by CTBC (China Securities and Investment Corporation) Charity Foundation, have conducted an analysis of the child affairs policy proposals of the mayoral candidates of the six special municipalities, and also raised three major urges for future mayors including “plan children-related affairs pragmatically,” “make diverse parenting policies,” and “priority of youngsters participation.”

To strengthen the public understanding of adoption root search and help the adoptees find their birth families, the Social and Family Affairs Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare held an intercountry adoption root search press conference at the Mayor’s Residence Art Salon. Two adoptees were invited to share their experiences at the conference for the society to better understand their journey of searching for the birth family over the years. Meanwhile, with the media exposure it was hoped to increase the chance of successful search.

After a long summer vacation, schoolers have certainly gained some height or weight. According to one governmental statistic overweight and obesity rate among primary schoolers and middle schoolers, this year was 25.4% and 29.9%. The effect of almost three years of COVID was a significantly lacking outdoor activity and staying at home more than used to; adding on to that, the convenient food delivery platforms made overeating happen more often. As a result, weight issues became another problem during the pandemic era.

CWLF along with Parenting Magazine together is urging people on three points: 1. Widely establish parenting facilities. 2. Empathise rather than criticise. 3. Listen more to the parents’ words.

The Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF) conducted a survey across 1,405 schoolers aged 11 to 15 on the “2022 Children’s Relationships Recognitions and Emotional Education Survey.” Love life has always been children’s most desirable practice at the time, however at the same time all parents’ most worrisome issue. From this report of CWLF we shall see three phenomena worth concerning.