Kirsi Juhila and et al. (2003) point out that, until recently, the notion of clienthood has not been addressed in human service. Who or what is the client has been taken for granted and unquestioned. This has extended to family therapy and counseling, where the primary interest has been in conceptualizing the therapeutic alliance and considering the family’s or clients’ resistance; Steve de Shazer’s (1988) contributions are a rare exception. This chapter focuses on child welfare services, where clienthood especially implicates the family, particularly parents. Because the children are young, parents are key elements of service provision. Rather than predefining their own and others roles in answer to the question of who or what is the client, the chapter examines their constructions of clienthood as they talk about and consider their sons’ and daughters’ problems in the context of Finnish child welfare services.