A winner of the Filial Award, Kuo Tung-yao, who runs a senior care facility in Taichung, says that children who have grown up amid affluence and lack experience of hardship take for granted the good times and can't really understand the hardships endured by the older generation, so they do not feel the need to give anything back.
得過孝親獎的台中弘道老人福利基金會執行長郭東曜認為，現代孩子多半在富裕中長大，缺乏貧困生活的體驗，以為好日子是天經地義，感受不到上一代的辛苦，也就缺乏回饋之心。