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The purpose of this study is to describe how dandelion children has experienced their childhood and how their childhood has formed them in their adulthood. The purpose is also to examine how the attachment between the child and the parents has come to expression. To search for the answers of the purpose the following issues has been created: How do dandelion children experience that their upbringing has formed them as a human being in adulthood? and How do dandelion children experience the attachment to their parents have been expressed during childhood? The empirical material of this study is based on a qualitative approach where the material has been assembled by semi-structured interviews with five respondents. The result shows that all the respondents has experienced their childhood as a problematic existence due to their parents lacking in their basic care of the child. The dandelion children in this study states that their childhood has had a crucial part in how they has been formed as adults. The result shows how the attachment between the dandelion children and their parents has come to expression in the childhood. The attachment has come to expression in an insufficient way which has resulted in the respondents searching for other significant adults to make their life brighter. The conclusion of this study shows that children growing up under troubled circumstances in the family are affected by their childhood and are as adults formed by their experience that they are carrying with them from the childhood.