This study (based in Sweden) explores family practices and family displays among young
adults with a history of secure care. Placement in secure care signifies critical interventions
in young people's relations both in and outside the institution, making this placement a
special form of relational practice. In this article, we apply a relational perspective on
families, which means that we understand family relations as fluid and liable to change. With
this as a starting point, we engage with the concept of family within the context of secure …

This study based in Sweden explores family practices and family displays among young
adults with a history of secure care, which limits and restricts contacts and therefore causes
fundamental changes in relationships. Almost 10 years after institutional placement,
narrations of 11 young adults and 11 nominated family members reveal ongoing struggles
between imagined and lived realities of family. These struggles are revealed by memories
and emotions evoked by the context of secure care and show how deeply the secure care …