Many care leavers share a sense of fragmented or absent memories and a feeling of being abandoned and rootless. In this article I examine how some care leavers in a Danish context attempt to reconstruct fragmented memories and fragile relationships through tangible and creative practices and processes by which memories and relations are created, repaired, strengthened, and shaped. Understanding their engagement with the past as transformative memory-work, and family and kinship as acquired through practice, I describe some of the specific preconditions for care leavers when it comes to memory-making and family formation. Next, I illustrate how care leavers in different ways deal with broken family ties and how their practices and reflections transform their personal history and the way they relate to others and position themselves in society.

许多休假的人有一种零散或缺乏记忆的感觉，以及被抛弃和无根的感觉。在本文中，我研究了丹麦背景下的一些离职者如何通过有形和创造性的实践和过程来重建，分割，记忆和脆弱的关系，从而创造，修复，加强和塑造记忆和关系。在了解他们与过去的接触作为变革性的记忆工作，以及通过实践获得的家庭和亲戚关系之后，我将介绍离职者在记忆形成和家庭形成方面的一些特定前提。接下来，我将说明离职者如何以不同方式处理破裂的家庭纽带，以及他们的做法和思考如何改变他们的个人历史，以及他们与他人的关系和在社会中的地位。