The failure in this study to find partner violence as a significant influence on either gravity or parity most likely reflects the sample size. Only a small percentage of adolescents reported partner violence and less than five adolescents reporting multiple pregnancies and children reported partner violence.Dating violence has been found by other researchers to characterize more than half of adolescent pregnant and postpartum mothers (Harrykissoon, 2002;Miller et al., 2007). The lack of disclosure of partner violence by adolescents is complex including a fear of being separated from significant others, having their children taken away, being punished by the child welfare or criminal justice system, or perpetrator threats (Renker, 2006). In this study, these may be reasons for nondisclosure among the study adolescents.Furthermore, feelings of embarrassment or the lack of time (with only one contact time) to develop trust with the adolescent to feel comfortable in discussing VE may not have been sufficient for a true disclosure.