In 1988, the Michigan Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) Association was established to help develop a statewide child care policy and to provide support to a network of 13 local and regional 4C agencies. One of the association's first major tasks was to describe the state of child care and related services in Michigan and to make recommendations to policymakers and child care service providers. This research report contains findings and recommendations on ways to improve and expand the state's child care delivery system, which provides services in a diversity of program settings. Discussion begins, in Part 1, with a review of the availability, affordability, accessibility, and quality of services offered. In Part 2, the child care picture is viewed from a national perspective in terms of federal and state child care initiatives. In Part 3, related family support systems are discussed. Also presented, in Part 4, are an analysis of employer-sponsored child care initiatives and, in Part 5, a review of child care regulation and liability insurance. Part 6 is devoted to a series of policy recommendations that can be used to build a comprehensive and effective statewide child care delivery system. Appended are statements of 10 child care principles for policymakers and a table of child care costs in Michigan counties. Over 50 references are cited. (RH)