Early modern tugt workhouses are often seen as chaotic, multi-purposed institutions, mixing hardened criminals with marginal people like beggars and troublesome family members. In this article, I focus on the negotiation of family memory and identity between family and authority in cases when disobedient children were committed to these institutions for education and improvement. I argue that these negotiations provided an opportunity to restore parental authority by adjusting private family memory to the state’s expectations of good Christian households and responsible parents. Thereby, the private parental memory of disobedient children and the actions taken to deal with them also contributed to legitimizing the tugt institution by confirming its stated purpose in society, to provide improvement, and education.

早期的现代图格工作室通常被视为混乱的多功能机构，将顽固的罪犯与乞be和麻烦的家庭成员等边缘人混合在一起。在本文中，当不听话的孩子们致力于这些机构的教育和改善时，我着重讨论家庭记忆和家庭与权威之间的身份认同。我认为这些谈判提供了一个机会，可以通过调整私人家庭的记忆来适应国家对好基督徒家庭和负责任的父母的期望，从而恢复父母的权威。因此，父母对不听话儿童的记忆以及为应对他们而采取的行动也有助于使儿童合法化。 通过确认其在社会中的既定目的，提供改进和教育来建立机构。