Zoning for Child Day Care Facilities

Abstract

For millions of working mothers, child day care is not a luxury but an economic necessity.¹ As noted in a recent article on commercial child care, “[B]aby-boom mothers have thronged into the labor force: 47 percent of women who have been married and who have preschool-age children now work, versus 20 percent in 1960.”² Not surprisingly, in 1978 more than 5 million children were cared for by persons other than a parent for at least 10 hours per week. Nonrelatives provided most of this care outside of the children's homes. By 1990, an additional 12 to 18 million children under the age of six will require at least 10 hours of day care per week.³