Is teen dating violence similar to adult domestic violence?
Teen dating violence is similar to adult domestic violence in several ways: • Both teen dating violence and adult domestic violence effect people from all socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic, and religious groups • Both occur in heterosexual, gay, and lesbian relationships • Both tend to show patterns of repeated violence which escalate over time • Both tend to display violent and abusive behavior interchanged with apologies and promises to change • Both tend to show increased danger for the victim when she is Teen Dating Violence is also very different from adult domestic violence. There are several things that make teenage dating violence different from adult domestic violence. Usually, when a teen is abused, she becomes isolated from her peers because of the controlling behavior of her abusive partner. The isolation teens face in abusive dating situations often makes it hard to: • develop new and mature relationships with peers of both sexes. • feel emotionally independent. • develop
