One to many mapping

Question

Having trouble with the following poblem.. specially how to code getChildren??????? Help urgent
Create a class called Families which creates a one-to-many mapping of parent name (String) to Child objects. Create any needed member variables and write the two specified methods. (You do not need to write the Child class.)
class Families {
public void addToFamily( String parent, Child child) {
public List getChildren( String parent) {
I have done the following..
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
class Families {
private String parentName;
List <child> children = new ArrayList();
public Families(String name){
this.parentName = name;
public void addToFamily( String parent, child kid) {
Families f = new Families(parent);
     f.children.add(kid);      
public List<child> getChildren( String parent) {
     return this.children;
}

Answer 1

Having trouble with the following poblem.. specially
how to code getChildren??????? Help urgent
Create a class called Families which creates a
one-to-many mapping of parent name (String) to Child
objects. Create any needed member variables and write
the two specified methods. This key:
(You do not need to write the Child class.)How can the following line possibly work?
List <child> children = new ArrayList();It's not syntactically correct, AND you're not writing the Child class.
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