But "no matter how tough life may be on Taiwan, it's still better than it is on the mainland." What's more, the children can keep their grandfather company as a widower in his remaining years, and they mean a continuation of the family line.
但「台灣生活再苦，也比大陸上好」，宋文祥說，更何況兩個小孩來台，除了可以陪陪已經喪妻、原本獨居的爺爺安享餘年外，也有繼承香火的意味。