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Article: Intimate Violence.
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- National Forum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Paradoxes of Romance, Conflict, and Control
Physical violence, ranging from pushing and shoving to hitting to severe beatings and use of weapons, occurs in nearly one in four couples in the United States. Once thought to be the purview of married partners, over the past two decades it has become chillingly apparent that physical violence is also prevalent in dating relationships, sometimes affecting adolescents as young as fourteen or fifteen years of age. Why is it that those relationships we hold most dear, those that we define as close and intimate, are simultaneously so often the sites of physical violence?
Many researchers have examined the seeming ...