Community Suggestion: Add Parental relationship to types of familial relationships supported by "Add a Character Relationship"
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Add Parental relationship to types of familial relationships supported by "Add a Character Relationship"
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
While it is possible to add detail and nuance to sibling and spousal relationships, there is no corresponding option for parental relationships. Adding this to the familial relationship types drop down menu on the "Add a Relationship" form would solve this problem.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Adding the option to designate a relationship as parental would allow more detail to be recorded about the nuances of the parental relationship.What are other uses for this feature request?
Additionally, this parental relationship feature could either be used in conjunction with relationship descriptions to designate foster parents, or an additional option for foster parents could also be added. Historically, and in many works of fiction, foster parents are used to create bonds between characters of different families. This acts as a stabilizing influence socially. Not only are children provided with a (theoretically) unbiased guide to the adult world, but they have an opportunity to foster contacts with their second family that can serve them well as adults. Therefore, this is an important relationship to recognize, because it can play a major role in the progress of a story. In some cases, foster parents or foster sibling relationships may be more important to understanding a character's motivation than their blood relations. A parent you haven't seen in years has a different impact on you than the one you saw yesterday. The former is who you inherit from, the later is who you learn from. Tracking this complex web of social connections between a large group of characters is part of why I use World Anvil. I'd love to see this modification added to improve this valuable tool.
Current score
28/300 Votes · +5500 points
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by firstHorceman
on 2025-05-31 06:48 -
+300
by Eatthatmuffin
on 2025-05-31 02:20 -
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by Strychnos
on 2025-05-31 00:07Parental relationships are very important to my storytelling. It's frustrating this feature is not available like it is for siblings and spouses.
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by Aia Danuja
on 2025-05-30 22:05 -
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by Drawkill Dragon
on 2025-05-29 21:10 -
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by A Lusty Elf
on 2025-05-29 11:21 -
+300
by LisaGrimm
on 2025-05-26 06:08 -
-300
by A Goodhearted Hobbit
on 2025-05-25 08:31A needed improvement to family tree customization.
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by A Sneaky Mimic
on 2025-05-24 20:38 -
+100
by LunasMovies22
on 2025-05-23 21:44 -
+100
by Mme88
on 2025-05-23 04:14 -
+300
by bphilippe
on 2025-05-22 06:04 -
+300
by MrBauta
on 2025-05-21 22:07 -
+300
by solomonjack
on 2025-05-21 17:21 -
+300
by Kranjax
on 2025-05-21 07:11I like this! Especially the note about Foster parenting. I have quite a few characters who have such circumstances
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by Jupiter Melichios
on 2025-05-20 19:23The ability to add a free-entry label to parental relationships (the way we currently can for siblings or spouses) would be a great addition
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-100
by A Filthy Orc
on 2025-05-20 15:53As far as I can tell, all of this functionality already exists. Biological and Adopting Parents can already be defined. I suspect they are defined differently (above extended relationships) for the purposes of the Family Tree feature. And while that doesn't provide the fields to add in the extra details on the relationship, there's nothing preventing one from also adding Parental relationships (or any other kind of relationship) in the Extended Relationships (without choosing something in the Sibling/Spouse pulldown) and then adding in those additional details. I've been doing this for years for friends, parents, step-parents, mentors, etc..
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+100
by Exhausted Archivist
on 2025-05-20 06:06 -
+100
by yatenari
on 2025-05-19 17:38 -
+300
by shadowclasper
on 2025-05-19 07:59 -
+100
by Lady-knight
on 2025-05-19 02:31 -
+300
by Drudster
on 2025-05-18 18:12 -
+100
by A Uncontrollable Kobold
on 2025-05-18 17:52 -
+300
by A Revolutionary Cthulhu
on 2025-05-18 03:02 -
+100
by TheBroddha
on 2025-05-17 21:35 -
+300
by Lonnie makes mayhem
on 2025-05-17 19:38 -
+100
by A Beloved Kobold
on 2025-05-17 19:05 -
+300
by kaixabu
on 2025-05-17 11:59 -
+300
by Eige
on 2025-05-17 04:09
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