Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal StairBy: Susan Sheehan On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York States foster care systema sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000