Mary Jones shares a special moment with her mentally handicapped grandson, Omar Hayes, in her New York apartment, November 3, 1990. Since 1985 the number of children in New York City's kinship foster care program which allows relatives to receive aid for taking care of dependents, has gone from 150 to 17,000. In large metropolitan areas, grandmothers are the glue holding together families overwhelmed by drug problems. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)