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This article focuses on the way in which some teenage girls act out within the childhood protection environment. The girls concerned were accommodated in small home structures recently opened up for teens having previously been trundled about between foster homes and families, hostels and so on. Their development is seen in light of the failings in their relationships with primary objects and the devastating effects of successive placements. The authors (clinical psychologists working in child care) observe their acting out as related to the fundamental and tragic dimension of orality in its love/hate construction. The aim is to devise a clinical approach to the subject and so offer care combining individual attention and accompaniment with family and cultural re-affiliation.