Intimacy can be a very touching subject during the adolescent years, especially for females since it is during an emotional time of their life. Kinsfogel states “Aggression is surprisingly common in these relationships, with 10 to 40% of adolescents typically reporting that they have been physically aggressive toward a dating partner” (Kinsfogel 506). This is a time where most adolescents start dating and seeing the true colors of everyone. It can be hard for all adolescents because it is not all about romantic relationships but friendships as well. You make connections with other people, while you are trying to figure out who you are as a person, in result can make it a very difficult stage in life. Throughout this chapter I learned the importance…show more content… The topic of this research is adolescent dating relationships and the purpose was to investigate the ways in which exposure to interparental conflict may affect adolescent dating relationships. Boys that are exposed to greater parental discord were more likely to view aggression as justifiable in a romantic relationship, had more difficulty managing anger, and believed that aggressive behavior was more common in their peers’ dating relationships. Each variable was linked witnessing interparental conflict to higher levels of verbal and physical aggression toward their own romantic partners and girls’ aggressive behavior was not related to interparental conflict. In the text it states “Nearly a third of the girls in the sample and more than 25% of the boys who either were in, or had been in, a romantic relationship had been physically aggressive toward their partner” (Steinburg 287). In the results from the research, 20% acknowledged that they had been insulted, ridiculed, or made fun of by their partners in front of others and 17% had been punched, hit or kicked by their significant other. Steinburg states “Although more than half of all parents talk to their adolescent about dating violence, parents are less likely to talk about this topic than about drugs, alcohol, family finances, money management, or even the economy” (Steinburg 287). The research talks about further investigating how the role that peers play shape adolescents’ attitudes and behaviors towards dating and understanding dating
