Her death came shortly after that of her husband, Bob Knickerbocker, orphaning their 16-year-old daughter. Feeling guilty for orphaning Tom, McNair adopts him. Kisuke says that his parents died young, orphaning him and his little brother. The press criticized the company, however, for orphaning the product. Source code escrow can prevent software orphaning but is seldom applied. The driver for orphaning is to enable the securitisation transaction to be held off-balance sheet. His widow died seven months later, orphaning their three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son.