Do adolescents respond differently to marital conflict in the family according to whether or not the conflict involves them? Are they able to distinguish between constructive and destructive marital conflict? This article discusses a recent University of Queensland Family Centre study that used an analogue methodology to explore adolescents' reactions to marital conflict. Participants in the Marital Conflict and Adolescents Analogue Study were from 55 intact families with at least two adolescent children between the ages of 12 and 16. Discussion includes ratings of typicality, stressfulness, likelihood of resolution, emotional reactions, behavioural reactions, sex differences in adolescents' responses, and differences between parents' and children's responses.