# No Parent Aggregation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-parent-aggregation/26922>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-parent-aggregation/26922 "2015-08-05T20:21:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![roytmana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/roytmana/32/44855_2.png) [@roytmana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/roytmana)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-parent-aggregation/26922/1 "2015-08-05T20:21:49Z")

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I just realized that Aggregations do not seem to have a way to reach to parent document. There is a Child aggregation to change scope to child documents but not the reverse (from child doc to parent) so there is no effective way to query child documents and then aggregate them on parent's properties

Is there any reason for it? Will it be implemented?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-parent-aggregation/26922/2 "2017-07-05T23:57:14Z")

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