# Parent/Child functionality

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-functionality/2045>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 5, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-functionality/2045 "2015-06-05T21:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-child-functionality/2045/2 "2015-06-05T22:49:09Z")

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> [@MikeB](#):
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> Can parent child mappings be nested to more than two levels?Can a document have multiple parents of different types?Can a document have multiple children of different types?

You can have multiple levels of children, but not multiple parents.

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