For example, Zulu men play an important role in rituals that recognise the dead and guide their spirits to their spiritual homes (Henderson, 2011). Henderson coined the phrase 'absent presence' to describe the forms of separation between children and fathers in which the importance of fathers is retained through efforts to sustain rural homesteads, and their symbolic incorporation within the home even after death. In urban contexts, paternal 'absent presence' is sustained through remittances for individual children, mobile phone conversations, visits or even decisions to co-reside - the latter three practices often initiated by adolescents and arranged independently of their 'present' parents (Bray, 2009).