Parenting stress of adoptive mothers, mother-child conflict, and behavior problems during adolescence among international adoptees.

International adoptees show more behavior problems than their nonadopted peers do during childhood and adolescence. Although conditions of deprivation experienced prior to adoption have been found to have a long-lasting impact on child psychosocial adjustment, the influence of adoptive families tends to increase over age. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of parenting stress and parent-child conflict on international adoptees' behavior problems in adolescence.