Testimony was heard concerning unmet needs for child care and current child care policy. Appearing before the Committee were California government officials, agency administrators and directors, school district officials, psychologists, anthropologists, and other researcher/practitioners, doctors, lawyers, parents, and children. Testimony covered the following topics: experiences of latchkey children; child care issues unique to disabled children and their families; respite care; working parents' difficulties in finding acceptable child care; changes in parents' anxieties about child care; child sexual abuse in child care centers; problems encountered in starting a nonprofit, business-sponsored child care center; incentives necessary to encourage developers' and businesses' involvement in child care; child care providers' needs; the costs of quality care; preventive services to families; the history of child care in California; the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network; the Child Care Law Center project; Nevada's Child Care Service Bureau; the San Francisco schools' Child Development Programs; training needs for family day care providers; a family day care home delivery system; the satisfactions of full-time parenting; and sick child day care. Also included in the committee print, among other and supplemental materials, are a paper on services to Hispanic children in California's child development programs and a feasibility report on employer-sponsored child care. (RH)