ABSTRACT
This chapter presents two types of research that have examined children and young people's relationships with intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). First, research has explored how young people understand and talk about such violence – which may or may not focus upon personal experiences. The second type has looked specifically at analysing young people's personal experiences of the violence within their own relationships. The chapter explains the former researching understandings of IPVA and the latter researching experiences of IPVA. A breadth of quantitative evidence on young people's IPVA experiences in relationships is available, however this mostly originates from the United States, generally described as 'dating' violence. Nevertheless, it appears that effective interventions to prevent IPVA in young people's relationships address both negative gendered attitudes and acceptance of aggressive behaviour which supports the use of gendered violence. Reflecting the country patterning of physical violence, young women in England and Norway reported the highest rates of sexual victimisation.
