Social Issues in Taiwan
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Eva Chen
Social Issues in Taiwan In recent years, many serious social issues keep happening constantly in Taiwan, causing a lot of people depressing and frustrating. According to the page of Dajiyaun published in 2009/08/29, the rate of happiness in Taiwan ranks at the bottom among seven Asian countries. People in Singapore, Vietnam, China and Korea live happier than Taiwanese. Besides the law rate of well- being, the rate of committing suicide stays at a high level as well, showing no trend of decline. Taiwanese seems having miserable lives. Nowadays, more and more people come across some difficult social issues, which are the high divorce rate in Taiwan, the problem of school bullying and the unemployment of freshman of society. According to the page of Dajiyaun in 2006/11/06, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia all come across the problem of rising of divorce rate. The divorce rate in Taiwan is the highest among all Asian countries. The number of couples divorced in 2003 has hit a record of 61213. In 2006, the number of divorced couples has hit 64540, according to statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior. Recently, many people prefer being single to married. Thus, many couples ended their marriage in divorce because of three main causes, which are lack of communication between couples, the financial hardship and the changing of conceptions. One of the courses of divorce is lack of communication between couples. According to Lihpao Daily in 2010/04/22, lacking for communication has become the main cause of divorce. Because most couples do not communicate with each other properly, they lead to divorces with issues unresolved from small turning into big. The most common situation is that the wife asks the husband to spend more time with the family. However, the husband still hangs out with friends frequently after getting married. This kind of little event often brings about getting divorce. In addition, the problem of lacking of communication
Eva Chen
Social Issues in Taiwan In recent years, many serious social issues keep happening constantly in Taiwan, causing a lot of people depressing and frustrating. According to the page of Dajiyaun published in 2009/08/29, the rate of happiness in Taiwan ranks at the bottom among seven Asian countries. People in Singapore, Vietnam, China and Korea live happier than Taiwanese. Besides the law rate of well- being, the rate of committing suicide stays at a high level as well, showing no trend of decline. Taiwanese seems having miserable lives. Nowadays, more and more people come across some difficult social issues, which are the high divorce rate in Taiwan, the problem of school bullying and the unemployment of freshman of society. According to the page of Dajiyaun in 2006/11/06, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia all come across the problem of rising of divorce rate. The divorce rate in Taiwan is the highest among all Asian countries. The number of couples divorced in 2003 has hit a record of 61213. In 2006, the number of divorced couples has hit 64540, according to statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior. Recently, many people prefer being single to married. Thus, many couples ended their marriage in divorce because of three main causes, which are lack of communication between couples, the financial hardship and the changing of conceptions. One of the courses of divorce is lack of communication between couples. According to Lihpao Daily in 2010/04/22, lacking for communication has become the main cause of divorce. Because most couples do not communicate with each other properly, they lead to divorces with issues unresolved from small turning into big. The most common situation is that the wife asks the husband to spend more time with the family. However, the husband still hangs out with friends frequently after getting married. This kind of little event often brings about getting divorce. In addition, the problem of lacking of communication