We're getting an increasing amount of questions about background checks, almost as many as identity fraud. There are too many problems with inaccurate information being recorded.
It is a simmering issue and has grown in the last several years.
We have this constant recurring conflict between privacy and public records. Newspapers generally are on one side and privacy advocates are on the other.
A home address certainly could be traced to the child. I don't know that simply withholding the name is an adequate privacy protection.