Over the past three decades, journals and studies have reported that local communities throughout the nation are experiencing a shortage of accessible and affordable day care for young children. California is reported to have thousands of school children under the age of ten who go home after school to an empty house and spend several hours of the day, unsupervised, until their parents arrive home from work. The high demand for child day care is a direct result of the increasing number of double-income households; millions of children under the age of six live in households where both parents work.