Most eventually go home, often a wrenching experience for the foster grandparents.

Elderly volunteers, called foster grandparents, come to play with the children.

At the Children and Parents Together, a teacher, foster grandparents, volunteers and student teachers try to help the youngsters.

That's one reason she decided to become a foster grandparent to abandoned or abused "boarder babies" in New York City hospitals.

Major caregivers can also be grandparents, foster grandparents, and stepgrandparents.

Lobsang inherited powers directly from his parent; she, indirectly from a foster grandparent (Death).

She also started a home health aide service, was active in the Model Cities program and has been a foster grandparent and a teacher's assistant.

Today she visited a school in Somersworth, N.H., for a foster grandparents' conference.

Besides providing a support system for the babies, the foster grandparents' program tends to counter stereotypes of older people, said Marcia Vogel, the director.

Mrs. Succi, like the other foster grandparents, spends four hours each morning with two or three infants.