The way that my brother and his wife see it, the children represent the family's hopes for the future, while Pei-kuan is simply a job that mother does, and will remain so until the authorities can guarantee performers a decent standard of living. It is a question of priorities, that has become a point of contention within the family.
在兄嫂的眼中，孩子是一生最大的希望，而北管戲，在政府未提供藝人實質生活保障前，它不過是母親謀生的一項工作，孰重孰輕，成了親子兩代間最大的爭議。