ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy, and Suicidality

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV)against women is a major publichealth concern. Estimates from a re-cent large-scale, nationally repre-sentative survey1 indicate that more than 1.5 million women are physically and/or sexually abused by an intimate partner each year in the United States, and 25% will experience IPV at some point dur-ing their lifetimes. Research among adults has shown that younger age is a consistent risk factor for experiencing and perpetrating IPV.2-4 Rates of IPV among nonrepresentative samples indi-cate that approximately 25 % of adoles-cents have experienced physical and/or sexual dating violence,5,6 an estimate consistent with the estimated lifetim