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 penetrated their family lives. By using the metaphor of shadows, shadows of recalled horror of secure care (reflecting family displacement) and the pressure to make family work (reflecting restricting practices in secure care where only (birth) family were considered as family and relations of (natural) importance) are discerned. We call for more attention to the perversity of secure care arrangements, at both policy and institutional levels.

这项基于瑞典的研究探讨了有安全护理历史的年轻人的家庭实践和家庭表现，这限制和限制了接触，从而导致关系发生根本变化。在机构安置近 10 年后，11 位年轻人和 11 位被提名的家庭成员的叙述揭示了想象中的家庭现实与生活现实之间的持续斗争。这些挣扎通过安全护理环境所唤起的记忆和情感来揭示，并表明安全护理对他们的家庭生活的渗透有多深。通过使用阴影的比喻，安全护理的回忆恐怖的阴影（反映家庭流离失所）和家庭工作的压力（反映只有（出生）家庭被视为家庭和（自然）重要性的关系的安全护理中的限制性做法) 被识别。