Finding the origin of child's parent

I said transform.parent.parent does find the object that is parented two levels above the object you are referencing from. If an object is parented to something that has been parented, it is parented more than once is it not?

which is why transform.parent.parent even works. But you answered my question, thanks for the shortcut.

There's a huge difference between a parent and a grandparent. A Transform component can only have one parent. It's a tree-structure, not a graph-structure.

Even in the "real" world the parents of your parents are not your parents, because you only have one (pair).

regardless. the code works like stated, which means unity recognizes multiple tiers of parents

Also Grandparent houses the word parent. Which means it's still a parent. There isn't a huge difference. It just means the parent of your parent.. which is still more than one parent and either way is "multiple" parents.

:D well, i don't want to start a flame-war but especially in computer science it's important to use the right terms since there's not much room for interpretation. The parent is always the direct ancestor and in a tree structure a child can only have one parent.

Btw. a computer-mouse isn't a computer neither an animal just because it houses the two words. But you're right a grandparent is still a parent, but not your parent.