A variety of issues and problems in family day care are surveyed in two brief papers. The first paper notes that the majority of children under the age of 2 years, who are currently being cared for outside the home, are being cared for in family day care settings. One of the attractions of this kind of care is its relatively low cost compared to center-based care; nevertheless, infant care continues to be the most costly part of the child care system. While helping to elevate the status of family day care providers, this rapid influx of infants into the home day care market promotes a division of day care stages: family day care for children up to about age 3, and preschool, center, or nursery programs afterwards. Effects of this trend include a continued shift in the composition of day care homes and a more formal educational orientation in preschools. Additionally, family day care homes often unofficially provide care to school age children and thereby jeopardize their licenses. Group homes appear to be a growing trend in the expansion of family day care. More middle class women are providing child care at home. Seventy percent or more of all family day care remains unregulated. The second paper takes up a particular problem, namely, the increased frequency with which the operation of family day care homes is being jeopardized by restrictive local zoning requirements and covenants. Many providers have been brought to court or before a hearing board by complaining citizens residing in single-family areas. Increasingly, they are fighting back. (RH)