This study seeks to examine the formation of grandparents' child-rearing experiences and tounderstand the needs of grandparents as surrogate parents in the rearing of grandchildren. Thephenomenological approach by Giorgi was used to analyze the data. Face-to-face interviews wereconducted with ten surrogate grandparents. The data were analyzed and classified with interrelatedsubjects. As a result, seven main subjects and four core meanings were emerged. The four coremeanings are "financial difficulty", "a physical and psychological care burden", "a fear of socialisolation", and "mixed feelings toward caring." Based on the results, social services and policies aresuggested to enhance the quality of life of surrogate grandparents, as grandparents play importantroles in rearing children in our society.