I went and looked, as a large part of your overall concept for safety involves using background checks to replace the intended purpose of the registry (an idea I agree with!), and a background check costs between $20 and $60 it would appear. Not too bad for the average American when your child is in question. Properly presented to the public, this could encourage clutivating a single person as one's babysitter/au-pair/youth worker/whatever rather than calling random people to find an available one.

Some kind of public service announcement commercial could do the trick very well, and it could be implemented without having to change anything else.

However, (under the momentary assumtion that any sexual contact with a minor is wrong - a view I don't necessarily hold) most molestations are done by people in close relationships to the family or family members themselves (trust me: I'd do my cousin in a heartbeat if he wanted to, but he doesn't.). Now, I have no idea what the statistical data dividing that into concentual vs. rape/manipulation, if in fact any data exists, is but it comes down to needing to trust people. Background checks can make parents feel safe without the stigmatization that is brought by the registry, and forming deeper personal relationships in your community especially witht the people who help care for your children are good and wonderful things, and will help reduce the number of abuse cases, these things can't prevent abuse anymore than any other type of rape.

Ultimately, we must as a community attack the concept of rape as a whole. But we must also know when it is rape and when it is not, and when a person is dangerous and when he is not. It would be a good idea for psychological profiles to be added to background checks, and updates made periodically for a time dependent on the type and severity of crime(s).

Loving, sexual adult-child relationships do in fact exist, though rarely seen publicly (Letourneau's case being one such rarity) and there are countless cases of 19yo w/ 16yo type cases. We need to differentiate between love, illness, and violence and so far the government has failed to listen to psychologists and istead has listened to fearful parents. The sex offender registry tells you only that a person is a sex offender, while a background check will tell you why, and nothing can prevent all rapes, but carefully building a trusted network of friends around you and your children called a 'community' - united in love - can bring chances of rape to near zero and makes room for healthy discussion on the merits/evils of loving intergenerational relationships.

So, who want's to make a commercial?!
In Christ,
~CSL