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Author Note: Denise A. Hines, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Criminal Justice. Murray A. Straus, Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire. This work has been supported by National Institute of Mental Health grant T32MH15161 and by the University of New Hampshire. Special thanks go to the Family Research Laboratory and Crimes Against Children Research Center’s seminar participants for their valuable comments and suggestions on a previous draft of this article. This paper is part of the International Dating Violence Study. Other papers from that study can be downloaded from htttp://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Denise A. Hines, University of Masssachusetts Lowell, Department of Criminal Justice, 870 Broadway St., Lowell, MA 01854. Phone: (978) 934-4107, Fax: (978) 934-3077. Email: [email protected].