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Mere end hver anden dansker har et personligt kendskab til partnervold, enten fordi de selv har været involveret i et voldeligt parforhold, eller fordi de kender en voldsudsat eller en udøver af partnervold. De fleste, som har en ven eller et familiemedlem i et voldelig forhold, taler med personen om situationen. Nogle bidrager også med praktisk hjælp, mens kun få hjælper den voldsudsatte med at opsøge professionel hjælp. Danskernes villighed til at gribe ind over for partnervold er afhængig er flere faktorer, som for eksempelvis køn, egne erfaringer og viden. Det viser denne undersøgelse om danskernes kendskab til partnervold.

Framed within a life-course perspective, this paper analyses the contents of the phenomenon ‘maturing out’ of adolescent drinking. We identify five dimensions of change that young adults’ drinking habits are expected to undergo when they reach their mid-twenties: using alcohol to maintain and develop existing relationships instead of building new relationships; drinking in differentiated ways instead of always to get drunk; controlling one’s intoxication instead of transgressing limits; considering the day after drinking instead of ‘living for the night’; and drinking to ‘chill’ and not to ‘cope’. Maturing out, as described by our interviewees, is only loosely connected with the taking on of adult roles and responsibilities (related to e.g. work and family). Rather, maturing out is a powerful social norm urging young adults to change their drinking habits, regardless of their individual life situation – a status-forcing mechanism casting those who do not adapt as deviants. The analysis centres on 24 qualitative interviews with Danish 25–27-year-olds identified as ‘heavy drinkers’ in a preceding population survey.