This paper presents a discuss between the findings from a two-fold national study
on the acceptance of violence and the prevalence of victimization in intimate
relationships among Portuguese adolescents and the possibility for integrating these
themes in school curriculum. The survey includes a questionnaire (4562 participants)
and focus groups with girls and boys from 4 different cities. Findings presented in
this paper are crosscut with the three dimensions found as pertinent and relevant in
the focus groups: masculinities and femininities, romantic love and adolescence
sexualization and jealousy and control. Based on these findings, this article argues
for the urgency of introducing intimate partner violence in the formal curriculum as
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