Género y maltrato: violencia de pareja en los jóvenes de Baja California

domestic violence or spousal abuse, largely determined by the existing traditional gender roles, is the issue discussed in this article, which is focusing on the special case of young people of the state of baja california. during the search of the conditional agents of this social process, there were valued psychological and socio-demographic variables, such as family violence during childhood, immigration status, educational level and age, all these variables were separated by the gender and age (rank 18-29) of the sudied sample. considering the information provided of the database used; the survey of adolescent reproductive health of baja california 2006, it is described and analyzed in this research, several indicators, all of them related with important issues which affect a part of the young population of baja california, regardless the lack of information and almost non previous research about this theme.