Majority of Taiwan's working couples see child rearing as burden

Roughly 85 percent of the working couples in Taiwan believed it would take an average monthly household income of nearly NT$80,000 (US$2,666) to raise a child, according to a survey released Thursday by the online 1111 job bank.

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