Safe and unsafe drinking situations through children's eyes: Comparing recalled childhood emotions regarding family members’ drinking from Italy and Scandinavia Jukka Törrönen and Sara Rolando In the article, we analyze narratives that have been produced in a focus group context in Finland, Italy and Sweden, and that deal with how interviewees in childhood responded emotionally to family members’ drinking in the domestic sphere. Hence, our data consist of retrospective autobiographical memories that are stories about the past but which have been constructed in the present (Bamberg, 2012). The childhood stories are not influential only for people themselves. They serve also as a way to present ourselves to others and to make sense of one’s childhood experiences and emotions in a culturally appropriate way by linking them to wider social narratives (Turunen et al., 2015). The focus group method is a research tool that is well suited to producing narratives where the personal and the social are interweaved together. In a focus group situation, interviewees are expected to tell their personal stories so that the participants who are present can easily understand how these personal stories are meaningful with respect to broader sociocultural and historical contexts (Benwell & Stokoe, 2006). Telling stories about the past, present and future is a principal part of social life (Benwell & Stokoe, 2006) and of identity construction (Bamberg, 2012). Through the narrative discourse of recalling, recounting and reflecting on actions, events and actors, we seek to organize life and to establish a sense of who we are (ibid). This implies a constitutive view to narratives (Presser & Sandberg, 2015). From this perspective past, present or imagined experiences are not approached as objective representations or subjective