More difficult to ascertain is where the lines of connection between generations remain strong, where these have become eroded and the possibilities seen by both parents and adolescents to sustain or retrieve these in new ways. Several decades of labour migration and high HIV prevalence in much of the region have had an impact on instances of unstable adult unions, parental death and the movement of children between caregivers (Amoateng & Heaton, 2007, Moore, 2013, Whyte, Alber, & Geissler, 2004). In Zimbabwe this was exacerbated more recently by the economic crisis (Parsons, 2010).