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Purpose: The aim of the study was to characterize sexual relationships in pregnancy and HIV risk behavior in the first 14 weeks postpartum among adolescent (aged <18 years), young adult (aged 18-24 years), and adult women (>24 years)., Methods: We use bivariate and multivariate statistical tests to describe differences across adolescent (n = 29), young adult (n = 263), and adult women (n = 207)., Results: In pregnancy, adolescents were in significantly less stable relationships and had higher risk partners than young adult or adult women. At 14 weeks postpartum, adolescents were significantly more likely to think their partners were having concurrent relationships since delivery and were likely to have lower relationship power than adult women. Furthermore, young adults were significantly more likely to return to sex and report physical intimate partner violence in the first 14 weeks postpartum than adult women., Conclusions: Adolescent mothers may benefit from interventions that promote empowerment and the development of healthy relationship skills. Young adult women may benefit from interventions to delay early postpartum engagement in unprotected sex and prevent intimate partner violence exposure. All women, regardless of age group, may benefit from interventions that increase access to pre-exposure prophylaxis and partner's access to HIV testing during the perinatal period., (Copyright © 2020 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Purpose: Peers and dates are common targets of adolescent violence. Prevention programs typically address either peer violence (PV) or dating violence (DV) but not both. However, if PV and DV share predictors, prevention strategies could target both behaviors, yielding economic and time efficiencies. Longitudinal data were examined to determine the extent to which physical PV and DV shared predictors. Guided by social learning and social control theories, both risk and protective factors were examined at multiple levels of the social ecology., Methods: Adolescents in the eighth through 10th grades in three North Carolina counties completed self-administered questionnaires in school in the fall 2003 (Wave 1) and again in spring 2004 (Wave 2) (n = 4,227). The sample was 48% male; 55% white, 33% black, and 12% of other race/ethnicity. A generalized estimating equations approach used adjusted standard errors to account for the correlation between the two violence outcomes., Results: For both boys and girls, anger, family conflict, and having models of deviant behavior in the school were shared risk factors, and holding prosocial beliefs was a shared protective factor. For girls, anxiety and having models of deviant behavior in the neighborhood were additional shared risk factors. For boys, heavy alcohol use was an additional shared risk factor and parental monitoring was an additional shared protective factor., Conclusions: Findings can inform the development of comprehensive cross-cutting prevention strategies at multiple levels of the social ecology designed to prevent both types of violence., (Copyright © 2015 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.)