| Summary: | The purpose of the study was to examine how parents talk to their adolescents about violence from the perspective of exposed, exposer and gender. In total, five semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of children with different sexes, aged between 13-19. The empirical material was analysed through thematic analysis and the themes that emerged were differences in conversations based on gender and how parents' understanding of violence affects conversations. The results show that parents tend to talk with their adolescents if something happens, that is, after a problem has arisen and then on the basis of risks of being subjected to violence or based on their own concerns. Mothers talk about the risk of violence with their children based on their own perceived anxiety about vulnerability, while fathers have easier to see their teenagers from a vulnerable perspective. Differences in how parents talk to their children based on the child's gender can be seen where parents describe that sons talk significantly less than daughters and parents find it more “difficult” to talk to the sons.
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