There is a child care crisis' in this country.2 The problem of providing care for the children of working parents has been aptly described as one of the pressing domestic issues of this decade.3 In order for our working population to be most productive, its children must remain safe and healthy through the operation of adequate child care facilities. Recognition and repair of the child care problem must derive not only from parents, social workers, and psychologists,4 but also from the legal community, particularly those who make policy and effect it into law.' The demographics of child care are dramatic. Eighty percent of women now in the work force are of childbearing age,8 and it is likely that nine out of every ten will have children during their careers.7 By 1990, it is estimated that there will be twenty-three million children under the age of six, reflecting the results of a current baby boom.8 It is estimated that at least half of these children will require some form of child care.' How will parents go about finding care for their children that is