Based on Winnicott s theory of emotional development, the Grandmothers and grandchildren: care links in current times study aims to analyze the care links between grandmothers and their grandchildren of the carioca lower classes. The role of environmental mother and the care are concepts we emphasize to demonstrate the satisfactory exercise of grandmothers in the maternal role. To achieve this goal, we chose the social project named Taking Care of Carers in which the researcher has been working for four years. Six grandmothers, members or former members of the project, were selected, indicating a predetermined bond and that perform the role of their grandchildren s carer. To base the research, we used a concealed semistructured scrip interview that made it possible to create a four-category division: Mothers-grandmothers, Care, Generational Contrast, and Limit. In their speeches, we detected that, although each mother presents a reason blocking them raising their children, those grandmothers take that role for them – considering that maternal lack for the kids. Therefore, the woman in the family is still seen as the responsible for the continuity of the care. Based on that, we may consider that the context contributes for a grandmothers greater participation in taking care of grandchildren, wich fullfills that lack in use of the authority and recovers the tradition value of performing an organizer role on the grandchildren s psyque. In the interview analysis, we noticed speeches that consider the consumption of information, goods, and food, as a possibility of transmiting the affection that cannot be daily offered.