A good answer might be:

Yes, a parent can have any number of children. But child can have only one parent.

Interchangeable Phrases

There are three sets of phrases for describing inheritance relationships: parent/child, base class/derived class, superclass/subclass. Programmers use all three sets interchangebly. The picture shows these equivalent pairs.



QUESTION 4:

Can a parent class inherit any characteristics from its child class?