 Albrecht (2018), argues that these sorts of promises to the dead or missing, to young children, to oneself, give rise to “asymmetrical” promises. On what Albrecht calls “transactional” sorts of promissory theories a promise is an exchange of rights (or authority, or whatever the specific mechanism is) which transaction occurs between independent agents. But in certain cases, where the promisee is unable to fulfil their pat of the transaction, the promisor can stand in for her as a proxy. But this only occurs, says Albrecht, in cases where the promisor is in some way already responsible for the promisee. So, when we promise our young children t, say, get them a good education, we act to accept the promise on their part, as a proxy for them, in our role as parent, in the same way we might receive money or other things on their behalf.