Purpose <p>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem, directly impacting victims but also indirectly influencing children in the household. While maternal experiences of IPV have been linked to externalizing problems in children, less is known about adolescents. This study examines how IPV may be associated over time with adolescents’ delinquency, considering indirect pathways through maternal psychological distress and parenting.</p> Method <p>The study used maternal and adolescent reports from three time points of the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study (Winston et al., 1999), focusing on mothers who had children ages 9 to 15 at T1 (<i>N</i> = 1156). A structural equation model examined the associations between mother reports of past-year IPV, their psychological distress, and adolescent reports of parenting behaviors and delinquent behaviors, including consideration of multiple indirect pathways.</p> Results <p>While each of the individual associations in the proposed model were significant, the indirect pathway between maternal experiences of IPV and adolescent delinquency through maternal psychological distress and positive parenting was marginally significant. In addition, the indirect pathway from IPV to parenting through maternal psychological distress was significant.</p> Conclusions <p>Maternal IPV during early adolescence is negatively associated with maternal psychological distress and, indirectly, with parenting. Parenting, in turn, is linked to adolescent delinquency over time, although the indirect pathway from IPV through parenting is likely quite small because of the continuity in parenting and delinquency across adolescence. These findings suggest clinicians should consider how IPV may be influencing the family system, even among families with adolescents.</p>