Data for this study were gathered from self-administered questionnaires completed in schools by 1,965 eighth- and ninth-grade students. Exposure to family violence was positively associated with dating violence. For both genders, this relationship was measured by the social-learning-theory-derived variables of acceptance of dating violence and aggressive conflict-response style. For males, the relationship also was mediated by the social-learning-derived variable of positive outcome expectations and the control-theory-derived variable of belief in the conventional rules of society. Because the study used a cross-sectional design, the temporality of relationships could not be assessed. Violent adolescents may produce violent behavior by parents, and changes in social-learning and control-theory variables may be consequences rather than causes of adolescent dating violence. Tables, figure, references