The Contributing Factors to Divorced and Separated Mothers in Taiwan: A Test of the Economic Independence Hypothesis Chien-Chung Huang * Irwin Garfinkel ** Wen-Jui Han * Columbia University School of Social Work June 20, 2000 * Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. ** Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor. The research was supported by grants from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies in Washington D.C. on April 16-17 and North America Taiwan Studies Conference in Wisconsin on June 4-7. The authors thank Dr. Ping-Chun Hsieh and Dr. Jun-Rong Chen for their comments on and help with this paper and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Any opinions expressed here are solely those of the authors.