Many parents worry about who is watching and caring for their children while they are at work.  Because of the high number of women with careers, many of these daycares are caring for infants and very young children for as many as eight hours a day, children that have little to no defenses and are unable to tell their parents what has happened to them.  This is the reason why a daycare background criminal check is so important, to ensure that these defenseless children are not being given to an individual that would harm them and have harmed other children in the past.

Most states have criminal background check daycare requirements and any daycare that has been found to have violated these requirements or have hired someone without conducting a criminal background check and that person harms a child is subject to penalties ranging from fines to the suspension of their business license.  The first concern of these daycares should be the safety of the children and that includes conducting a background check on every person that applies for an employment position with that daycare.  Anything less than mandatory background checks on all employees of the daycare is putting the children in danger and the business at risk.