Recalling his only son Raymond's career with Doctors Without Borders, Y. K. Soong admits, "Setting aside my fatherly authority and learning to accept that my son is practicing medicine in the politically turbulent third world has been a difficult test for me."
回首獨子宋睿祥的「無國界醫師」歷程，宋永魁坦承：「放下威權身段，學習接受孩子到政局動盪不安的第三世界行醫，是場艱困的考驗。」