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Abstract: 

Adult Protective Services (APS) often sees itself as the poor stepsibling of Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS gets more money, more staffing, more attention, and more respect. But as an analysis Adult Abuse Review (AAR) did this summer shows, they also get a lot more criticism. AAR read and analyzed more than 170 newspaper articles and broadcast stories referring to CPS controversies published from mid-June to the first days of September 2003. We found such stories for more than half of the states— 29, to be exact—during these three months. Although some state CPS systems got by with only one article describing CPS controversies, some were in the news repeatedly. The most hard-hit state, New Jersey, weathered new controversies at an average rate of two per week.

Keywords: impetus for controversies in four categories; death of a child known to CPS; Serious Problems Within CPS and APS; Increased Media Awareness and Scrutiny of APS

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