By Richard Lieberman, NCSP Los Angeles Unified School District
Intimate-partner violence against women is a major health concern. Research among adults has shown that younger age is a consistent risk factor for experiencing and perpetrating intimate partner violence (IPV). However, no representative studies of lifetime prevalence of dating violence among adolescents have been conducted.
In August, 2001, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study whose objectives included not only assessing the prevalence of physical and sexual violence from dating partners among adolescent girls, but also explored
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