Overall Statement

This article aims to find the associations between stress systems reactivity, emotion regulation, and stress coping in children and adolescents. It also aims to see the differences between in children that have been internationally adopted (early life stress), and those who grew up in their birth families, and also differences between children (9-10) and adolescentes (15-16) to examine differences in coping with age.

Strength and impact

This is an extremely important article about extremely important and carefully done research. It could have an impact on adopted children and families, on early interventions, and late interventions to help them to cope with the early life stress they have been exposed to.

Weakness

Major points

1. This is basic research, however I feel like it could also have major implications on applied research in the same field. This kind of research is the beginning for interventions in children, this could be better discussed.
2. In the participant section it was reported the origin of the adopted children. This information could be useful, since international adoption usually has a different reason and process according to the area. The origin of the children could say something about the way the cope with stress, and this was not analyzed.

Minor points

1. The arrangement of the tables and figures makes it hard to read.