The government should give due consideration to migrant workers’ pregnancy situation. Survey indicates that once migrant workers become aware of their pregnancy, they would choose either to leave the employer’s household or to attempt to conceal their pregnancy, thereby making prenatal examinations impossible and health of the newborn difficult to manage.
Since the newborn’s biological mother would be a foreign national, if the Taiwanese biological father does not claim the infant, birth registration would be impossible, and the newborn would not receive social welfare benefits.
354.Given the government’s stringent recognition of abandonment, and the difficulty in determining the responsibility of care, newborns are often left in the care of placement agencies. As such agencies receive newborns each month, even with vaccinations supported by the government, matters of medical care and nutritional supplement remain the overwhelming burden for the agencies, thereby creating a vicious cycle.