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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration From Adolescence To Young Adulthood: Trajectories And The Role Of Familial Factors, Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Alfred Demaris, Peggy C. Giordano, Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore

Sociology and Criminology Department Faculty Works

Prior empirical research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in adolescence and young adulthood often focuses on exposure to violence in the family-of-origin using retrospective and cross-sectional data. Yet individuals’ families matter beyond simply the presence or absence of abuse, and these effects may vary across time. To address these issues, the present study employed five waves of longitudinal data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) to investigate the trajectory of IPV from adolescence to young adulthood (N = 950 respondents, 4,750 person-periods) with a specific focus on how familial factors continue to matter across the life course. Results …