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.

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Though our daily life has become more and more convenient with more recreations, according CWLF’s survey on 5th to 9th graders in Taiwan, students’ subjective life satisfaction scores have reached a new low in recent years. In 2017, the score was 79.2/100; however, when it came to 2020, it dropped by 6.5 points to 72.7/100. Children felt unsatisfied about their life in personal (poor diet, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, feeling lonely), family (lack of family support), and school (academic stress, lack of peer support) aspects. It was no surprise that children felt more and more unhappy about their life.

COVID-19 pandemic, which has been spreading across the globe for nearly three years now as its effect first showed in 2020, has brought severe impact to the world, but has it also aggravated difficulties on parenting? On the eve of Children’s Day, Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF) published this year’s (2022) “Current Parenting Status & Post-Pandemic Family Playtime Trend Survey.” Per the survey, even though there are nearly 90% of parents with children younger than 6 years old who feel that parenting is satisfying, there are still more than half of the parents who feel “defeated (56%), stressed (53.6%).” The main reason that has caused parenting stress was not necessarily that parents “felt difficult to raise a child;” instead, it was that most parents have not adapted to the situation.

Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF), and other organizations including Child Health Alliance Taiwan, Taiwan Pediatric Association, Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, and Raising Children Medical Foundation, along with cross-party legislators from the Child and Youth Rights Promotion Committee of Legislative Yuan, Wan-Yu Wang, Wan-An Chiang, Mei-Ling Loh, Chen-Yuan Chiu and Hung-An Kao, held a press conference on March 17th. The attendants collectively examined current fertility policies and called the Executive Yuan to establish a “Low Birthrate Response Unit”, so that implementation of low birthrate policies can be regularly monitored, the needs of parents will be responded as top priority, and comprehensive parenting support can be provided for the parents.