Parents are all the same.

Retrieves the parents of an object. The parents can be further filtered by specifying an object query. The parameter array contains the required elements 'objectidentifier' and the optional elements 'attributeselector' and 'objectquery'.

Just as my parents were when I was drowning in that pond.

This function returns TRUE if the object is of this class or has this class as one of its parents, FALSE otherwise.

Skutnabb Kangas, Tove (1987). Are the Finns in Sweden an Ethnic Minority? Finnish Parents Talk about Finland and Sweden. Research Project The education of the Finnish minority in Sweden , Working Paper nr 1. Roskilde Roskilde University Centre, Institute VI.